{
  "name": "steam-launch-lever-panel-2026",
  "title": "Steam Launch Lever Panel \u2014 2026 (10,403 launches, public-source-derived week-1 revenue)",
  "description": "10,403 Steam launches with week-1 gross revenue estimated from public signals, plus the storefront features used to estimate causal lever effects: demo availability, co-op/multiplayer support, and localization breadth. 19 columns, no nulls. Every revenue figure carries a per-row source_quality tier (B/C/D) recording how it was derived.\n\nIMPORTANT \u2014 survivorship bias: games that sold almost nothing leave little owner-count or review trace, so no revenue can be derived for them and they drop out of the denominator. The median week-1 revenue in this file is NOT 'the median Steam game' \u2014 it describes the median MEASURABLE launch. Use this data for relative comparisons (how much a lever moves revenue), not for absolute 'typical game earns X' claims.\n\nCanonical analysis: https://steamforecast.app/reports/steam-launch-lever-benchmarks\nMethodology: https://steamforecast.app/methodology\n\nDerived from public Steam storefront data, public review counts, and SteamSpy owner ranges. No licensed, purchased, or partner sales data is included; wishlist counts are absent by construction. Compiled by SteamForecast. License CC BY 4.0.",
  "licenses": [
    {
      "name": "CC-BY-4.0",
      "title": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
      "path": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
    }
  ],
  "homepage": "https://steamforecast.app/reports/steam-launch-lever-benchmarks",
  "keywords": [
    "Steam",
    "video games",
    "game development",
    "revenue estimation",
    "indie games",
    "causal inference",
    "game analytics",
    "Boxleiter",
    "open data"
  ],
  "resources": [
    {
      "name": "steam-launch-lever-panel-2026",
      "path": "steam-launch-lever-panel-2026.csv",
      "format": "csv",
      "mediatype": "text/csv",
      "encoding": "utf-8",
      "schema": {
        "fields": [
          {
            "name": "appid",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Steam application ID"
          },
          {
            "name": "name",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Store title at extraction"
          },
          {
            "name": "release_date",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Steam release date"
          },
          {
            "name": "y_week1_cents",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Estimated week-1 gross revenue, USD cents (derived \u2014 see README)"
          },
          {
            "name": "y_log_week1",
            "type": "number",
            "description": "log10 of week-1 revenue; the modeling target"
          },
          {
            "name": "T_has_demo",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Demo shipped at launch (0/1)"
          },
          {
            "name": "T_supports_coop",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Co-op or multiplayer (0/1)"
          },
          {
            "name": "T_languages_high",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": ">=10 supported languages (0/1)"
          },
          {
            "name": "T_price_bin",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Price bucket"
          },
          {
            "name": "T_release_month",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Release month 1-12"
          },
          {
            "name": "recommendations_total",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Total reviews at extraction"
          },
          {
            "name": "num_genres",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Store genre count"
          },
          {
            "name": "has_metacritic_score",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Metacritic present (0/1)"
          },
          {
            "name": "genre_cluster",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Coarse genre cluster"
          },
          {
            "name": "is_mature_content",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Mature flag (0/1)"
          },
          {
            "name": "platform_mac",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "macOS support (0/1)"
          },
          {
            "name": "platform_linux",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Linux support (0/1)"
          },
          {
            "name": "release_year",
            "type": "integer",
            "description": "Release year"
          },
          {
            "name": "source_quality",
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Revenue-derivation tier B/C/D \u2014 see README"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}