An indie dev scraped Steam to research the perfect game [Video]

Valve’s Steam is one of the most popular platforms for PC gaming, so there’s a wealth of data on there about games and user preferences. And one new indie game dev has decided to compile that.

“Driven by curiosity and a passion for exploring data and game development,” the creator of the video below scraped Steam’s whole catalogue using scripts that gathered data ranging from the titles of games to tags, prices, ratings, review counts and release dates.

The resulting data can be used to glean insights on the highest-rated games, the most commonly used words in titles and potentially underused combinations of genres. It could help research the perfect new game, be it for PC or for the best games consoles.

YouTube user Newbie Indie Game Devran the scripts for almost a week and then cleaned the data manually to …