PC games that rule (by player %) in UK, France, Germany?

Publikováno: 6.12.2024

Also: the big F2P and other Steam releases this week, and lots of news.

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[The GameDiscoverCo game discovery newsletter is written by ‘how people find your game’ expert & company founder Simon Carless, and is a regular look at how people discover and buy video games in the 2020s.]

Welcome back, and we hope the rest of your week was ‘pleasant’ - or at least not ‘objectionable’. As we slide inexorably towards the weekend, GDCo is busy finishing year-end charts and other data goodness, but has plenty to discuss in the meantime.

Before we start, a book rec for discovery & algo nerds: Glenn McDonald’s You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song. McDonald created the amazing EveryNoise.com - mapping genres and music artists - and worked at Spotify & Echo Nest on discovery algorithms. (Many parallels to games, here.)

Game discovery news: PS 30th, Indy lead coverage

We’re going to level with you: we collected 20+ stories just since Tuesday for this section. (There’s a lot going on!) Now to jam the info into some skinny jeans:

PC games that rule (by player %) in UK, France, Germany?

A few weeks ago, we looked at the games with >100k Steam copies sold that have the highest % of players in the U.S. and Japan. It was a fun look at national niches - from American football and Wizard 101 (U.S.) - to train sims and vTuber games (Japan.)

As we round out the year, we thought we’d go back and grab three more countries to look at - the United Kingdom, Germany and France. To be honest, this is a bit of a ‘novelty’ view, a subset of our more meaningful Steam Deep Dive* ‘Country Explorer’ tool. But it’s fun in a ‘balancing beer mats on your nose’ type way. So let’s do it…

[Steam Deep Dive is part of our enhanced GDCo SaaS data set that companies can license - ping us if interested in learning more!]

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