How many games are at Steam?

[Quirckey]

Including upcoming and early access titles, and excluding anything (like videos and software) other than "Games".

[AmsterdamHeavy]

36,049

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Price_ASC&category1=998

[Quirckey]

Originally posted by AmsterdamHeavy:

36,049

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Price_ASC&category1=998

I see, It's pretty lower than what I expected (1M) !!

Ty

[Eldin]

Originally posted by AmsterdamHeavy:

36,049

https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Price_ASC&category1=998

It's 36533 for me.
But there are at least few thousands more because it doesn't show games that have been banned, removed and games without store page.
It also doesn't show games that are not available in your region.

[Quirckey]

I'm searching a lot of queues and was planning to view all games in a month or so, but here is the spoiler: most of the games are really crappy and weird! No idea if I can view a couple more thousands of them. :))

[Eldin]

Discovery queue is not the best way to find good games.
There's a lot of crap on Steam and good games are harder to find.

You better find some good curators and see what they're recommending.
There are a lot of YouTube channels that do top 10 best games, top 50 great games that you probably missed, etc.
Gameranx is my favorite YouTube channel for discovering new games.

You can also see what your friends and other random people on forums are playing.
You could find some good games there too.

[Quirckey]

Originally posted by Eldin:

Discovery queue is not the best way to find good games.
There's a lot of crap on Steam and good games are harder to find.

You better find some good curators and see what they're recommending.
There are a lot of YouTube channels that do top 10 best games, top 50 great games that you probably missed, etc.
Gameranx is my favorite YouTube channel for discovering new games.

You can also see what your friends and other random people on forums are playing.
You could find some good games there too.

The problem is I'm not interested at mainstream titles and what majority likes. I mostly found my favorites really hidden behind their graphics, I had to go look at their store page to exactly understand what kind of game it is. But yeah will take a look at YT too if that didn't work well.

[IFIYGD]

36,583. After including filtered out games in the count.
https://prnt.sc/pjs7e5

NA/US region.

That's actually a lot, and like said above... it does not count games that have been removed that may still be in my library, or ones that might not be available in the US.

If you want to filter out certain types of games, OP, use the "Customize your queue" link on a Store page in your queue to apply filters to the discovery queue, and not show certain types of games, SW or videos.

The Steam Labs Experiments (Interactive Recommender and Community Recommendations) are good ways to search fro new games, in different ways than the Discovery Queue.

[󠀡󠀡󠀡⁧⁧the.jester]

Have you had a look at the Steam Labs section of the store? That has bought up a few recommendations of interest for me.

[Eldin]

Originally posted by 🐉 Chesmu ☠:

The problem is I'm not interested at mainstream titles and what majority likes. I mostly found my favorites really hidden behind their graphics, I had to go look at their store page to exactly understand what kind of game it is. But yeah will take a look at YT too if that didn't work well.

I know how it is.
I enjoyed a lot of games that I accidentally found and and apparently, only few people are playing.
There are a lot of videos on YouTube with lists of games like that.
You can find hundreds of great indie games from all genres and with all kind of graphic/art style.

At least, when human picks the games they'll be better than stuff Steam's Discovery Queue automatically picks from pile of crap.

[Quirckey]

Ok thanks @IFIYGD
@The.jester, tried it once after it got updated, but it showed around 20 titles with my filters which is weird, since I found much more with same filters while searching manually at store.

[Quirckey]

Originally posted by Eldin:

Originally posted by 🐉 Chesmu ☠:

The problem is I'm not interested at mainstream titles and what majority likes. I mostly found my favorites really hidden behind their graphics, I had to go look at their store page to exactly understand what kind of game it is. But yeah will take a look at YT too if that didn't work well.

I know how it is.
I enjoyed a lot of games that I accidentally found and and apparently, only few people are playing.
There are a lot of videos on YouTube with lists of games like that.
You can find hundreds of great indie games from all genres and with all kind of graphic/art style.

At least, when human picks the games they'll be better than stuff Steam's Discovery Queue automatically picks from pile of crap.

Couldn't agree more with that. :D

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Could be around this
125,715
apps in database
396,243
packages in database
6,407
bundles in database
https://steamdb.info/

[Eldin]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

Could be around this
125,715
apps in database
396,243
packages in database
6,407
bundles in database
https://steamdb.info/

That's correct. They have data about all games (even removed ones)
But only thing I don't know if what's is considered as "app"
Games and Software are.
But I don't know about DLCs, Soundtracks, Videos, etc.