The situation in the market with remasters and remakes — release dynamics, earnings

We're exploring how many games on the market can be categorized as remasters/remakes and how much they earn.

There is a common belief that the modern gaming industry is oversaturated with remakes and remasters. It seems as if developers today are exclusively focused on these, leaving bold experiments to newcomers and smaller teams.

In this article, we decided to check whether this claim holds true and if we can indeed say that we are living in an era of repetitions and profit from nostalgia.

To do this, we reviewed release data on Steam, counted how many remakes and remasters have come out recently, how much they have managed to earn, and also analyzed the situation with such games in the Russian industry.