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A Majority of Game Developers Believe Steam Has A Monopoly on PC Game Distribution

4 November 2025 at 20:00

Steam logo on a collage of video game covers including Gears 5, Cyberpunk, and Stardew Valley.

A new whitepaper published by Rokky, a platform for PC game distribution, reveals that in a survey conducted by Atomik Research, which asked 306 executives at game studios, 67% of them from the US, with the remaining 33% from the UK, 72% of respondents believe that Steam has a monopoly on PC game distribution. But just because these respondents believe that Steam is a monopoly, is it actually a monopoly? As Circana senior executive, Mat Piscatella, and Rokky in its paper titled, "The State of PC Game Distribution" point out, not exactly, but there is an argument to be made. […]

Read full article at https://wccftech.com/a-majority-of-game-developers-believe-steam-has-monopoly-on-pc-game-distribution/

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