Steam Revenue Calculator
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How much do Retro games make on Steam?

Median revenue
$1.2K
All Steam: $1.1K
Middle half earn
$179–$8.4K
Top 10% earn over
$78.5K
All Steam: $94.4K
Earn over $100K
9%
All Steam: 10%
Games
12,985
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How revenue is spread

Under $1K
6,234
$1K–10K
3,716
$10K–100K
1,878
$100K–1M
774
$1M–10M
328
$10M+
55

Median revenue by price

Under $5
$3196,951 games
$5–10
$2.6K3,726 games
$10–15
$12.9K1,315 games
$15–20
$66.4K679 games
$20–30
$167.9K239 games
$30+
$134.4K75 games

Median revenue by release year

1995
$63.6K1 games
1998
$56.6M1 games
1999
$3.8M2 games
2000
$818.6K1 games
2001
$2.5M2 games
2003
$806.6K1 games
2005
$62.7K1 games
2006
$1.2M3 games
2007
$656.6K16 games
2008
$130.3K8 games
2009
$85.4K34 games
2010
$108.8K13 games
2011
$130.5K25 games
2012
$381.4K40 games
2013
$286.9K66 games
2014
$37.3K172 games
2015
$14K253 games
2016
$10.4K311 games
2017
$5.7K490 games
2018
$2.5K604 games
2019
$1.8K651 games
2020
$1.2K877 games
2021
$1.1K1,069 games
2022
$9991,212 games
2023
$8451,308 games
2024
$8371,586 games
2025
$6002,047 games
2026
$3992,189 games

Top games

  1. 1ULTRAKILL$310.6M
  2. 2Cuphead$191.7M
  3. 3DELTARUNE$152.7M
  4. 4Undertale$148.8M
  5. 5Celeste$127.7M
  6. 6Pizza Tower$78.5M
  7. 7Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number$61.6M
  8. 8Vampire Survivors$60.4M
  9. 9Katana ZERO$58.8M
  10. 10Half-Life$56.6M
  11. 11Hotline Miami$52.7M
  12. 12Rivals of Aether$49M
  13. 13Megabonk$48.4M
  14. 14Papers, Please$43.4M
  15. 15To the Moon$41.1M
  16. 16Two Point Hospital$39.2M
  17. 17Broforce$36.4M
  18. 18Legend of Mortal$33.2M
  19. 19Crash Bandicoot™ N. Sane Trilogy$32.8M
  20. 20Return of the Obra Dinn$31.8M
  21. 21Command & Conquer™ Remastered Collection$30.9M
  22. 22SANABI$30.8M
  23. 23Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove$30.1M
  24. 24MECCHA CHAMELEON$28.4M
  25. 25ANIMAL WELL$28.1M

Top developers

  1. Arsi "Hakita" Patala1 games · $310.6M
  2. tobyfox2 games · $301.5M
  3. Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc.1 games · $191.7M
  4. Extremely OK Games, Ltd.2 games · $129.3M
  5. Maddy Makes Games Inc.2 games · $129.3M
  6. Dennaton Games2 games · $114.4M
  7. Tour De Pizza1 games · $78.5M
  8. Lucas Pope2 games · $75.2M
  9. Valve6 games · $61.5M
  10. poncle1 games · $60.4M

Top publishers

  1. New Blood Interactive9 games · $352M
  2. tobyfox2 games · $301.5M
  3. Devolver Digital26 games · $248.7M
  4. Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc.1 games · $191.7M
  5. Maddy Makes Games Inc.2 games · $129.3M
  6. SEGA14 games · $108.6M
  7. Tour De Pizza1 games · $78.5M
  8. 39092 games · $75.2M
  9. Valve8 games · $72.3M
  10. poncle1 games · $60.4M

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