The Game DNA Project

Reports on the shape and trends of games on Steam.

Reports

Tag Popularity Over Time

334 Steam tags from 2003 to 2026, ordered by peak year. Each cell's color = that tag's share of that year's releases (per-row normalized so emerging genres aren't drowned by evergreens).

Screenshot Count Over Time

Are Steam store pages becoming more screenshot-heavy over time? This report tracks the median number of screenshots on game pages by release year, from 2008 to 2025 — revealing that the typical screenshot count has actually drifted down from around ten or eleven in the early years to roughly six or seven today.