Steam Trends: How to Analyze the Market and Avoid Developing a Game for No One

There's nothing more daunting than spending many years on development only to realize: no one wants your game. Unfortunately, there is no guaranteed way to avoid failure. However, you can improve your chances of success if you evaluate the niche and potential competitors before development, at least by the obvious criteria. Read our material to find out what these criteria are.

We might be playing Captain Obvious a bit today, but it's never too late to reiterate elementary truths. So, when analyzing the niche, genre, and immediate benchmarks — always check on Steam for:

• sales;
• number of reviews;
• wishlists.

It's also worth paying attention to the number of followers, but that's a separate big topic for which we recently prepared a comprehensive study. We highly recommend it for those ready for formulas and numbers.