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ResidualPlay in one paragraph

ResidualPlay measures the entire Steam catalog every day, estimates what every commercially active game earns, and isolates the ones still selling with no owner activity anywhere: no Steam updates across the studio's whole portfolio, no living studio website, no active franchise. It is free, open, needs no account, and publishes its method.

Numbers you can verify yourself

• 20,437 games under continuous measurement, out of a 187,000-app catalog scanned daily.
• 1.17 million monthly data points of review history reaching back to 2010.
• 1,051 games with no owner activity anywhere, still earning an estimated $207k net per month combined.
• Roughly 85% of those quiet games have players in-game right now, sampled every four hours.
• Everything is reproducible through the free public API, CSV exports and per-page Markdown.

Findings worth a story

• A game stops decaying after year two. Median revenue rate settles at ~39% of the launch year and stays there for as long as we can measure. Chart.
• A 75% discount sells about the same as a 20% one. Normalized per game against its own full-price months. Chart.
• The long tail runs on November: 12.4% of the year's sales in one month. Chart.

About

ResidualPlay is built and operated by a small independent team in the EU. Estimates are directional (±30–50% per title, tighter in aggregate), derive from public signals only, and the full estimation chain is documented in the docs. Not affiliated with Valve.

Assets and contact

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Interviews, custom data cuts or fact-checking: contact@residualplay.com. We answer fast and we will run any query you need against the live dataset.