minhtuan27 / data-science-blog-post

The Gaming Trends on Steam

The Gaming Trends on Steam

Source: Steam

Steam is the biggest game distribution platform in the world with a whopping of 30,000 titles in 2020. But which titles are being played the most and which genres are popular? Is there a game or a genre that dominate the rest?

During my first project in Udacity's Data Scientist Nanodegree, I attempted to find answers for these enquiries.

Here is a link to my blog post on Medium:

https://medium.com/@minhtuan270820000/the-gaming-trends-on-steam-in-term-of-total-playtime-f7cb538eaa

Directory

This repository contains two notebooks and one dataset.

• data_cleaning.ipynb cleans the raw dataset
• data_visualization.ipynb provides visualizations for analysis
• steam.csv is the raw original dataset
• processed_steam.csv is the pre-processed dataset
• graph/ contains useful graphs for visualization

Results

Here are a quick summary of the analysis, these results are covered in detail in my blog post.

1. Three titles Dota 2, PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUND and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive dominate 60% of total playtime on Steam

2. Action is so far the most popular genre

3. Free-to-play games with in-app purchases is the way to go

Acknowledgement

This analysis uses Steam Store Games dataset, which contains steam data gathered from the Steam Store and SteamSpy APIs around May 2019.

License

MIT