💫 Creepy Jar just kicked off 2026 with the EA launch of its highly anticipated new title, StarRupture, following the massive success of Green Hell, which went on to sell over 9 million copies worldwide cross-platform. Creepy Jar’s stock (CRJ:WA) has now popped 50%+ YTD, in the

Interesting stats coming out of @alineaanalytics! ~20,000 games shipped on Steam in 2025, yet premium still drives ~78% of revenue. Co-op continues to rise as a social signal, not just a genre trend. And Sweden quietly captured ~20% of Steam gross revenue. 2026 here we come!

Some Steam holiday copies sold data for you (@alineaanalytics estimates). Every game was discounted in one way or another. Nice to see Slay the Spire sneak in, ahead of the sequel's early-access launch in March. PUMPED. Find the full write-up on our Substack (link in bio)

New Year! Kicking off with the Most Trending titles the first week of 2026. 👣 OKU starts the year as #1. To recap, Bongo Cat players get cosmetics for following and wishlisting OKU. As a result, the followers-to-wishlisters ratio is close to 1:1, which you don’t see very often.

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Beyond a phenomenal year for game development in Sweden (title-wise) 🇸🇪, many other countries also delivered. US 🇺🇸 The hard-to-beat #1 thanks to its breadth. Japan 🇯🇵 completes top 3 together with US and Sweden. A country defined by its mastery of remasters, remakes and strong

Wishing everyone a Happy Holiday season and a wonderful start to the New Year! 🎄

Games made in Sweden stood for 20% of the revenue on Steam in 2025. Pretty impressive considering Sweden’s size of 10 million inhabitants. Source: @alineaanalytics

Indies made 25% of Steam's 2025 revenue! $500M+ (3% of Steam's revs) came from these 5 new 2025 indies: Schedule I: $151M R.E.P.O: $147M PEAK: $87M Silksong: $75M Duckov $53M (@alineaanalytics estimates) Steam has generated of $17.7B so far this year, +15% YoY. Link in bio!

Damn! Huge spike in Expedition 33 copies sold since the Game Awards (@alineaanalytics estimates) It sold an extra 200K+ copies since: 76% on Steam, 21% on PS5, and 3% on Xbox. Around 52K Xbox players accessed E33 via Game Pass for the first time, too. Free Substack link in bio.

Here are the Game Awards GOTY nominees that have sold the most copies since their nominations (@alineaanalytics copies sold - Xbox, Steam, and PC only, so no DK data). Price drops also had a huge impact here. Full deep dive in the free Substack. Link in bio.

Here's November's top Steam games by copies sold (@alineaanalytics) Bloody fantastic list, if you ask me. ARC is on track to pass 8M copies sold across all platforms this week (and 10M by year's end). NUTS. BIG deep dive in today's free Substack. Link in bio.

Steam Machine #16 and Steam Frame #22 most wishlisted item on Steam. The Machine should be past 1 million wishlisters at this point and the Frame close to it.

This past weeks most trending titles on Steam: ✨ Fatekeeper After unveiling Fatekeeper during THQ Nordic's Showcase in August 2025, the 12-person team at Paraglacial has released the game’s first gameplay video, offering a deeper look at the world they’re building. And

Sony has made over $1.2 billion on Steam via selling over 43M copies of PlayStation Studios games (@alineaanalytics estimates) Here's the top five PlayStation games on Steam by copies sold. Full analysis in the new free Substack (link in bio)

The @thegameawards GOTY nominees by copies sold across Xbox, PlayStation & Steam (@alineaanalytics estimates). Full analysis on the free Substack (link in bio). WHAT A LIST <3 Having a tough time with my personal list this year. The top 5 changes weekly... What's your pick?

Spoke to @IGN about GTA 6's delay. ''A huge share of PlayStation MAUs are still on PS4, and GTA won't ship on last-gen consoles. Many holdout players have been waiting for GTA to justify purchasing a new console. A wave of new console owners has been pushed deeper into 2027.”

Steam has generated $16B+ in revenue so far this year (@alineaanalytics estimates) That's already up 5.7% from 2024's final total! Taking Valve's cuts into account (and 100% cuts of its own juggernauts CS2 and Dota 2), Valve itself has made over $4B+ this year from Steam.

⚔️ Warhorse yesterday announced that KCD II has hit 4 million copies sold!  For comparison, KCD I reached 2 million sales after its first year, so already doubled that in less than a year. Absolutely incredible and definitely a strong GOTY contender. Congrats to the whole team

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