♟️ EUV launched as one of the most anticipated Paradox titles in recent years yesterday. According to Alinea Analytics estimates, it released to around 200,000 pre-orders, translating into a 77,000 concurrent player peak at launch yesterday and eight hours as the #1 title on the

🦾 Embark (via Nexon) announced that ARC Raiders has now sold over 4 million copies! At Alinea Analytics, we estimate 3.7 million copies across Steam, PS5 and Xbox. That’s a margin of error of around -7.5%. And ARC is also on the Epic Game Store. This is up quite a bit from

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⚔️ 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

Steam has generated $16B+ in revenue so far this year (Alinea Analytics 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.

The The Game Awards GOTY nominees by copies sold across Xbox, PlayStation & Steam (Alinea Analytics 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?

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

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

Here's November's top Steam games by copies sold (Alinea Analytics) 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.

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Assetto Corsa generated around €32 million in the last report. The franchise has grown at approximately 24% CAGR since 2018 and 11% over the last five years. All of this comes from a small and efficient team of about 30 people. There is a lot of exciting activity on the horizon!

Damn! Huge spike in Expedition 33 copies sold since the Game Awards (Alinea Analytics 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.

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 (Alinea Analytics estimates) Steam has generated of $17.7B so far this year, +15% YoY. Link in bio!

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: Alinea Analytics

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

Trots att spelbranschen globalt haft det fortsatt tufft under 2025, gör svenska pc-spel succé. Nya siffror visar att de svenska spelen sålde för ungefär 30 miljarder på spelplattformen Steam. Artikel på EFN Ekonomikanalen efn.se/miljardframgan…

ARC Raiders passed 12M copies sold over the weekend (Alinea Analytics estimates) Yesterday was its biggest day ever by DAUs (3.2M). Daily copies sold started to stabilise by early Dec, but a well-timed 20% discount across all platforms – and the holiday boost – reversed that.

💫 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

👨‍🚀 ARC Raiders confirmed 12.4 million copies sold this morning, approximately 2.5 months after release. A remarkable achievement! For comparison, PUBG reached 10 million copies sold around 5.5 months after its 2017 release, before later becoming synonymous with the battle

Here's how Forza Horizon 5 on PS5 stacks up against some other 2025 Xbox-to-PlayStation ports. Big deep dive on Forza's PlayStation success in the new free Substack. Link's in my bio.