Tags · Data as of October 12, 2026
How much do Strategy games make on Steam?
Median revenue
$1.3K
All Steam: $1.1K
Middle half earn
$160–$14.6K
Top 10% earn over
$156.6K
All Steam: $94.4K
Earn over $100K
12%
All Steam: 10%
Games
24,578
How revenue is spread
Under $1K
11,521
$1K–10K
6,158
$10K–100K
3,974
$100K–1M
1,649
$1M–10M
917
$10M+
359
Median revenue by price
Under $5
$23911,000 games
$5–10
$2.2K7,059 games
$10–15
$11.1K3,014 games
$15–20
$48K1,845 games
$20–30
$197.9K979 games
$30+
$152.8K681 games
Median revenue by release year
2000
$81.6M1 games
2003
$806.6K1 games
2004
$37.8M2 games
2005
$1.2M2 games
2006
$126.8K27 games
2007
$219.6K26 games
2008
$68.9K47 games
2009
$126.5K64 games
2010
$64.1K67 games
2011
$81.5K85 games
2012
$158.1K74 games
2013
$142.4K128 games
2014
$44.5K355 games
2015
$20.3K575 games
2016
$10.2K767 games
2017
$5.6K1,129 games
2018
$2.2K1,274 games
2019
$2K1,284 games
2020
$1.6K1,590 games
2021
$1.2K1,684 games
2022
$1.5K1,817 games
2023
$1.1K2,180 games
2024
$7992,923 games
2025
$6003,686 games
2026
$3204,777 games
2027
$01 games
Top games
- 1Baldur's Gate 3$2.2B
- 2Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI$797.4M
- 3Dead by Daylight$660.4M
- 4Hearts of Iron IV$627.5M
- 57 Days to Die$592.5M
- 6Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord$555.9M
- 7Satisfactory$453.5M
- 8Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition$391.7M
- 9RimWorld$352.5M
- 10Squad$348.4M
- 11Stellaris$334.2M
- 12Arma 3$330.1M
- 13Factorio$323.4M
- 14Cities: Skylines$315.8M
- 15Raft$311.1M
- 16Total War: WARHAMMER III$306.3M
- 17Total War: WARHAMMER II$301.3M
- 18Hell Let Loose$294.7M
- 19Schedule I$279.8M
- 20Crusader Kings III$275.4M
- 21Don't Starve Together$271.4M
- 22Europa Universalis IV$270.4M
- 23Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition$268.2M
- 24Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™$259.6M
- 25Dispatch$252.8M
Top developers
- Larian Studios4 games · $2.6B
- Paradox Development Studio17 games · $1.7B
- Firaxis Games20 games · $1.4B
- Aspyr (Mac)7 games · $1.2B
- CREATIVE ASSEMBLY14 games · $1.1B
- Aspyr (Linux)3 games · $1B
- Feral Interactive (Linux)14 games · $839.3M
- Feral Interactive (Mac)17 games · $834.4M
- Frontier Developments11 games · $774.9M
- Feral Interactive5 games · $716.5M
Top publishers
- Larian Studios4 games · $2.6B
- Paradox Interactive65 games · $2.5B
- SEGA36 games · $1.6B
- 2K39 games · $1.5B
- Aspyr (Mac)7 games · $1.2B
- Aspyr (Linux)3 games · $1B
- Feral Interactive (Linux)14 games · $839.3M
- Feral Interactive (Mac)17 games · $834.4M
- Xbox Game Studios21 games · $823.4M
- Frontier Developments10 games · $773M