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Video Games Insights

Articles by the VG Insights team covering the games industry. We talk about market trends, give advice on marketing and business and write tutorials on how to do proper market research for games.
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Video Game Insights
July 18, 2022
Core Keeper sold over 1 million units in less than 4 months - here's why

This article was first posted in full on the VG Insights blog. VG Insights is a Steam data platform and video games business blog with tonnes of free content.

Core Keeper is a sandbox survival sim that has been described as a blend of Stardew Valley, Terraria, Minecraft and Valheim. Essentially, it’…

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Video Game Insights
July 11, 2022
Steam market size will decline in 2022, but not as much as the rest of the industry.

This article was first published on the VG Insights blog.

COVID boosted game sales across all platforms, but PC games were a strong winner. Steam games revenues grew by 31% in 2020 and a further 11% in 2021.

2022 has brought challenges to the industry. The whole industry will likely decline in 2022. …

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Video Game Insights
February 18, 2022
VG Insights released Steam Top Charts

Video Game Insights has released a new feature - top games charts.

It shows games top the charts by revenue, follower gain, units sold or active players.

Check out the top selling games now: https://vginsights.com/top-charts

This year's top sellers:

Dying Light 2 has had an amazing launch period, mass…

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Video Game Insights
February 01, 2022
New Free Games Industry Market Report by Video Game Insights

This article was originally posted on the Video Game Insights platform blog.

The last 2 years of the games market have been dominated by Covid. However, different types of games studios have seen contrasting effects. As a whole, the industry has seen a boom, but these gains haven’t impacted all game…

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Video Game Insights
March 14, 2021
Steam analytics can be quick and intuitive

VG Insights Steam Analytics page is the new player on the street. I’ve long tried to find a good solution to doing market research for PC games. Steam Spy and SteamDB give a lot of good data, but any research would take days of data gathering and analysis.

This is a short summary of VG Insight’s cap…

13,508 views
Video Game Insights
January 13, 2021
How to choose which game to develop? – A step-by-step guide

This post was originally published on https://vginsights.com/insights/article/how-to-choose-which-game-to-develop-a-step-by-step-guide

No game developer wants to spend months or years on something that will ultimately only sell 100 copies. Even though luck is an important part of game development, i…

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Video Game Insights
August 18, 2020
What made Fall Guys so successful?

Fall Guys has come, seen and conquered. If you follow games, your Instagram, Twitter and news feeds are no doubt filled with funky looking… umm… jelly beans?

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, welcome back to Earth! You must be one of the two guys who SpaceX sent …

1,725 views
Video Game Insights
August 13, 2020
Video Game Insights: Game revenues on Steam infographic

This post was originally posted on Video Game Insights blog.

How much money do indie games make on Steam? Find out more on our free market research platform.

The infographic is based on an article we wrote on Ind13 – How much money do Indie games make on Steam?

Read more

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Video Game Insights
July 28, 2020
An 11-point marketing guide for small indie developers

Marketing – the dreaded word of the indie dev community. All that game developers want is to have independence and make a game they’ve always wanted to make. Alas, this freedom, as all freedom, comes with a small print stating you need to be an expert in development, design, art, marketing, law, ac…

4,066 views
Video Game Insights
July 28, 2020
An 11-point marketing guide for small indie developers

This post was originally posted on Video Game Insights Blog. 

Marketing – the dreaded word of the indie dev community. All that game developers want is to have independence and make a game they’ve always wanted to make. Alas, this freedom, as all freedom, comes with a small print stating you ne…

12,090 views
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