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October 2025's top new Steam (& console) games revealed... Also: plenty of discovery news, for your ZIP code and beyond...

October 2025's top new Steam (& console) games revealed: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/october-20...

Does Steam have its regional pricing recommendations right? If not, what should you do about it? Also: a bunch of new Steam releases & the latest news.

Does Steam have its regional pricing under control? Some analysis for the latest newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/does-steam...

How 'The Farmer Was Replaced' hit 39,000% (!) revenue increase at Steam 1.0 Also: some other GDCo appearances - and lots of discovery/platform news.

How 'The Farmer Was Replaced' hit 39,000% (!) revenue increase at Steam 1.0 - find out in the latest GDCo newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/how-the-fa...

Why 'sessionability' radically affects game discovery... A tale of two games. Also: a big Steam debuts week & lots of news.

Why 'sessionability' radically affects game discovery: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/why-sessio...

Who 'won' October 2025's Steam Next Fest? Also: lots of discovery and platform news, including new Steam Deck game pages.

Who 'won' October's Steam Next Fest demo showcase? No one game, but we go through all the trends in our latest newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/who-won-oc...

The invisible downside of constant Steam sales and gaming deals:

“The biggest risk by far is that people don’t buy new games at full price [...] If people know they’re going to get games cheaper later, then why would they buy a game day one?”
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The state of Steam wishlist 'conversions': 2024-2025 Also: the big Steam debuts of the week, and a hunka chunka news.

What's up with Steam wishlist conversions nowadays? Why do they differ so much? Some thoughts: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/the-state-...

Real data: how CloverPit hit 750k sales in 2 weeks Also: lots of discovery news and the latest Roblox charts.

How did CloverPit scale to 750k units sold on Steam in its first 2 weeks? We take a close look in our latest newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/real-data-... (Spoiler: VTubers are involved...)

Why Has PC Become the Dominant New Game Discovery Platform? - Game Discovery Talk Why are developers so interested in how people find new games on PC, but not on consoles? Simon Carless of GameDiscoveryCo lists the reasons.

According to @gamediscoverco.bsky.social, there's a lot less desire among publishers and developers to understand how people find new games on consoles compared to PC.

Is it because there are more people playing on PC? Or are there other factors too?

We have 250,000 across those two days! (It's selling faaast.)

Sept. 2025's top new Steam (& console) games revealed... Also: last month's most-streamed games, and lots of discovery news.

What were the top new Steam (& console) releases of Sept. 2025. Here's what we think, in the latest GameDiscoverCo newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/sept-2025s...

Does Xbox Game Pass' yield play make sense? Also: 'more like this', the big new Steam games of the week, and lots of discovery news.

Does Xbox Game Pass' yield play make sense? Here's what we've got, in the latest GameDiscoverCo newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/does-xbox-...

How Discounty rang up 100k sales in a week! A good result across Steam & Switch. Also: why power laws matter.

How did satirical supermarket sim Discounty ring up 100,000 sales in its first week? We look in the latest GameDiscoverCo newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/how-discou...

How seriously should we take Steam Deck, and what games do best on it? GameDiscoverCo looked at Steam's own data on the games that are majority-played on Deck, and a bunch of nice (attached!) graphs ensued: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/steam-deck...

Are In-Person Events Still Good for Game Discovery? At a time when the internet has become a fearsome hype machine for games, what’s the point of physical events (for devs and players)?

Is it still worth attending IRL game events in 2025, if you want to promote your game (or discover games as a player)? Simon Carless of @gamediscoverco.bsky.social reasons it out in his latest column.

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How does streamer popularity & Steam wishlists relate? We take a look with Stream Hatchet. Also: the latest Roblox hits & lots of discovery news.

Here's a collab with Stream Hatchet, as the streaming tracker firm (which looks at live-streams from all non-China sources, led by Twitch) used access to GameDiscoverCo’s Pro API to grab historical wishlist balance estimates for recent Steam hits: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/how-does-s...

5 things you didn't know about Hollow Knight: Silksong Also: this week's big Steam debuts, and lots of news.

5 things you didn't know about Hollow Knight: Silksong: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/5-things-y...

From Supraland to Supraworld: why catalog matters! Also: the most-streamed games of August, and lots of discovery news.

Our latest newsletter looks at why catalog revenue matters, analyzing the success of the Supraland & Supraworld series (>500k units sold on Steam LTD): newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/from-supra...

What were August's biggest new PC & console game hits? Also: continued sellers? And Silksong's debut! And news!

What were the top new releases on Steam & console in August 2025? (And the top continuing ones on Steam?) A bumper data dump from GameDiscoverCo is attached: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/what-were-...

We don't cover mobile game discovery - here's why! Also: plenty of platform news and our latest Steam game debuts analysis.

Why don't we cover mobile game discovery at GameDiscoverCo? Some thoughts in the latest newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/we-dont-co...

Which unreleased games made the biggest splash at Gamescom? GameDiscoverCo took a look at the 100+ games showcased in streaming showcases around the event, and found the Steam wishlist trends: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/which-game...

Indie Devs Are Delaying Their Games Because Of Silksong [Update] - Aftermath 'I feel like a little krill trying to not get eaten by a blue whale,' wrote one developer

We got asked by @aftermath.site about whether devs should move their release date because of Silksong: aftermath.site/silksong-ind... (Spoiler: in general, no.)

Game Discovery Talk - Do Steam Wishlists Actually Matter? Are Steam wishlists a good indication of how a successful a game will be at launch? GameDiscoverCo's Simon Carless take a look.

If you're a game developer (or just a keen spectator), you'd probably like some predictability in knowing how a game will perform when it releases. Is it worth obsessing over wishlist numbers?

Simon from @gamediscoverco.bsky.social takes a look:

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Steam wishlists: total matters, 'proven' playability matters more? Also: Roblox charts & this week's Steam debuts for Pro/Plus subs.

So sure, Steam wishlists matter. But does 'proven' playability matter more? We look at risk profiles in the latest GameDiscoverCo newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/steam-wish...

How RimWorld's latest DLC was its biggest so far We talk to the team. Also: streaming charts from July & lots of news.

Why was RimWorld's latest expansion its biggest so far? We speak to its dev for the latest GDCo newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/how-rimwor...

We're back, with GameDiscoverCo's countdown of 'trending' unreleased Steam games by 7-day new follower velocity, from August 4th to 11th: | Simon Carless We're back, with GameDiscoverCo's countdown of 'trending' unreleased Steam games by 7-day new follower velocity, from August 4th to 11th: - Continued momentum for EA's Battlefield 6 (#1) has seen it ...

We're back, with GameDiscoverCo's countdown of 'trending' unreleased Steam games by 7-day new follower velocity, from August 4th to 11th: www.linkedin.com/posts/simonc...

Wuchang, Grounded 2 lead July's new Steam hits! Also: new PS/Xbox titles, and plenty of notable discovery news.

Which new games did the best on Steam (& PS/Xbox) in July 2025? The latest GameDiscoverCo newsletter tackles just that: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/wuchang-gr...

PugLips: The next insanely popular thing you’ve never heard of… Our fourth annual 'Summer Special' article, innit?

Since GDCo is on holiday this week, thanks to The Writer Will Do Something and Eliza co-creator @matthewseiji.com for once again providing a special guest post while we’re out, laying out an important new market: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/puglips-th...

Which game genres get the most playtime? Also: some notable Steam debuts, and plenty of news..

Which game genres get the most playtime, on median/average? Lots of lovely Steam data on this in the latest GameDiscoverCo newsletter: newsletter.gamediscover.co/p/which-game...

LOL, you do realize these are all NEW games and your game isn't NEW, right? 😘