Open world games on Steam: market size, sales and what works

57 games on Steam carry the Open World tag as one of their main tags. The median one has 282,539 reviews and 100% pass 1,000.

Games released per year

3 2015
6 2016
3 2017
8 2018
7 2019
2 2020
3 2021
3 2022
3 2023
4 2024
6 2025
4 2026

2026 is the year so far.

What games make

Percentile	Reviews	Estimated owners
Median game	282,539	about 7.5M
Top 25%	520,724	about 13.8M
Top 10%	1,022,468	about 18.9M

98% of games get over 50 reviews and over 70% positive. Owners are modeled from review counts, see how the estimates work.

Pricing

Median paid price $29.99

Free 9%
Under $5 2%
$5 to $15 11%
$15 to $30 34%
$30 to $60 43%
$60 and up 2%

Most reviewed Open World releases of the last 24 months

Upcoming Open World games 0 on Steam

Railborn 2027
Battledroid To be announced
Bitpunky Coming soon
Crystal Venture Coming soon
Dark Dimensions: Chasing Legends Coming soon
Deadly Survival To be announced
Dimension Rift Zero To be announced
Fantasy Matchmaker Coming soon
Farmwand To be announced
Freelancer Simulator Coming soon
GLITCHED Coming soon
Imagined Leviathans Coming soon

Tags these games also carry

Multiplayer 40
Action 34
Singleplayer 32
Adventure 31
Atmospheric 24
Survival 24
Co-op 23
Sandbox 22
Exploration 18
Third Person 18

What good store pages do

Medians across the 50 most reviewed Open World games.

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Trailers: 4
Description length: 4,186 characters

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