Steam Revenue Calculator
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How much do Text-Based games make on Steam?

Median revenue
$1.3K
All Steam: $1.1K
Middle half earn
$200–$7.8K
Top 10% earn over
$38K
All Steam: $94.4K
Earn over $100K
5%
All Steam: 10%
Games
4,289
Clear

How revenue is spread

Under $1K
1,994
$1K–10K
1,350
$10K–100K
725
$100K–1M
159
$1M–10M
56
$10M+
5

Median revenue by price

Under $5
$3591,966 games
$5–10
$2.4K1,276 games
$10–15
$8.4K564 games
$15–20
$8.2K278 games
$20–30
$20K139 games
$30+
$31.7K66 games

Median revenue by release year

2006
$764.4K1 games
2008
$7.4K1 games
2010
$41.7K1 games
2013
$56.6K5 games
2014
$20K11 games
2015
$15.3K28 games
2016
$6.1K49 games
2017
$5K94 games
2018
$3K125 games
2019
$4.2K134 games
2020
$2K230 games
2021
$2.4K356 games
2022
$2K401 games
2023
$1.8K500 games
2024
$1K596 games
2025
$851763 games
2026
$400993 games

Top games

  1. 1NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD$51.5M
  2. 2Doki Doki Literature Club Plus!$22.4M
  3. 3Firework$20.2M
  4. 4Murders on the Yangtze River$11.7M
  5. 5Suzerain$10.4M
  6. 6Milk outside a bag of milk outside a bag of milk$9.2M
  7. 760 Seconds! Reatomized$9M
  8. 8The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles$7.4M
  9. 9Chill with You : Lo-Fi Story$7.3M
  10. 10Digimon Survive$6.8M
  11. 11Citizen Sleeper$6M
  12. 12Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy$5.9M
  13. 13The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante$5.9M
  14. 14Maitetsu:Last Run!!$5.6M
  15. 15Ace Attorney Investigations Collection$5M
  16. 1660 Seconds!$4.6M
  17. 17PARANORMASIGHT: The Seven Mysteries of Honjo$4.5M
  18. 18Homicipher$4M
  19. 19Urban Myth Dissolution Center$3.9M
  20. 20BOOK OF HOURS$3.7M
  21. 21No Case Should Remain Unsolved$3.6M
  22. 22The Farmer Was Replaced$3.4M
  23. 23I Wani Hug that Gator!$2.8M
  24. 24Card Survival: Tropical Island$2.7M
  25. 25Noctuary$2.6M

Top developers

  1. WSS playground2 games · $51.5M
  2. xemono1 games · $51.5M
  3. Team Salvato1 games · $22.4M
  4. Shiying Studio1 games · $20.2M
  5. CAPCOM Co., Ltd.3 games · $18.3M
  6. Robot Gentleman3 games · $14.9M
  7. OMEGAMES STUDIO1 games · $11.7M
  8. Nikita Kryukov2 games · $11.5M
  9. Torpor Games1 games · $10.4M
  10. Jump Over The Age2 games · $8.1M

Top publishers

  1. Alliance Arts3 games · $51.5M
  2. WSS playground3 games · $51.5M
  3. Serenity Forge2 games · $25M
  4. Gamirror Games5 games · $24.2M
  5. CAPCOM Co., Ltd.3 games · $18.3M
  6. Robot Gentleman3 games · $14.9M
  7. NPC Entertainment1 games · $11.7M
  8. OMEGAMES STUDIO1 games · $11.7M
  9. Torpor Games1 games · $10.4M
  10. Nikita Kryukov2 games · $9.3M

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