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Steam (Steamworks)
The largest PC game distribution platform
paid $100 per app fee; 70/30 revenue split Solo-dev friendly
Steam is the dominant PC game marketplace with over 130 million monthly active users. Steamworks SDK provides achievements, cloud saves, multiplayer, workshop support, and more. $100 per-app fee with 70/30 revenue split.
Highlights
- + Largest PC gaming audience — 130M+ monthly users
- + Built-in wishlisting, reviews, and discovery
- + Steamworks provides achievements, cloud saves, multiplayer
- + Steam Workshop for community mod support
Limitations
- − $100 per-app listing fee (recoupable)
- − 30% revenue cut (drops at higher tiers)
- − Increasingly crowded — thousands of releases per month
Platforms
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