SteamStats: Visualizing 20 Years of PC Gaming on Steam

SteamStats: Visualizing 20 Years of PC Gaming on Steam

SteamStats is an interactive D3.js data visualization dashboard that explores how the PC gaming landscape on Steam has evolved from 2006 to 2025. Through timelines, bubble charts, and scatter plots, it reveals how game releases, prices, reviews, and publishers have shifted over time, making industry trends both intuitive and explorable.

SteamStats is an interactive D3.js data visualization dashboard that explores how the PC gaming landscape on Steam has evolved from 2006 to 2025. Through timelines, bubble charts, and scatter plots, it reveals how game releases, prices, reviews, and publishers have shifted over time, making industry trends both intuitive and explorable.

Category

May 15, 2024

Data Visualization

Data Visualization

Year

May 15, 2024

2025

2025

SteamStats turns a large Steam games dataset into a narrative, visual experience tailored for curious gamers, data enthusiasts, and industry observers. Built with D3.js, the dashboard coordinates multiple views—a high-level release timeline, a detailed temporal zoom, publisher and game-level bubble charts, a price–review scatter plot, and a responsive game list—to let users pivot seamlessly between macro trends and individual titles. With interactive filters, tooltips, and a guided walkthrough, visitors can uncover patterns such as the rise of indie publishers, shifts in pricing strategies, and how reviews correlate with popularity. Rather than presenting static graphs, SteamStats invites exploration: every hover, click, and filter refines the story of how PC gaming on Steam has changed over nearly two decades.

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