UPDATE: Steam has officially crossed the 5,000 game mark

UPDATE: This morning Steam crossed the 5,000 game mark and currently sits at 5,009

PREVIOUSLY:

Steam is about to cross the 5,000 game mark(at 4,999 currently)

PC catalog: 4,999

MAC catalog: 1701

LINUX catalog: 1072

http://store.steampowered.com/search/?term=&sort_by=_ASC&os=linux&page=1#sort_by=_ASC&category1=998&os=linux%2Cwin%2Cmac&page=1

This is the first thread I've created in my 15+ years of being a Gamespot member. Better late than never I suppose :)

Considering all the indies and low budget titles that come out on a daily basis, along with the backcatalog of older games, I'm amazed steam is only just now reaching 5000.

@Postosuchus: To be fair, they rotate games out from time to time. Since Origin came into existence pretty much all the EA games have vanished. Older versions of games get replaced by newer versions in some cases (i.e. all the Batman GOTY editions replaced the normal editions after GFWL support was pulled from them whereas before that they used to co-exist. I have 776 games in my Steam library and of those 43 are no longer in the store. Still, I was also surprised to hear that the total number of games was that low. I expected it would be somewhere close to double that.

-Byshop

And how many of that 5000 are in your library?

I'm also surprised that it's only reaching 5000. I thought it was way more then that.

Like 15 of my 350 is unplayable by anyone without a time machine, some work with some tricks.

Nice, do we get a free game on that 5000 hit?

That would be nice if they hooked it up with free GTA V :p I'll keep dreaming.

@so_hai: Personally I have 91 games in my Steam library. But on an interesting note many of them weren't purchased on Steam. I'd say at least half were physical copies purchased in store or bought on other digital sites such as Greenmangaming, Humble Bundle, Amazon, etc..

I wonder if this is common....

I will care once I get the frickin steam overlay to work again... Now I have alt + tab out of every game to chat

@PredatorRules: If you buy all 5,000 games, Steam will give you a free Steam game to add to your library.

Oh, wait... ;)

-Byshop

companies should care about quality over quantity. this large number shows how steam is filled with mostly shit

Was going to say the same thing. Much lower than I'd have guessed it to be really.

I was thinking this same thing....

Just had a look at GOG's game page, and there's a lot of major "oldish" games that aren't on steam, like the original Infinity Engine titles and the Neverwinter Nightses. Suppose it's not that surprising then they're only reaching 5000, if the catalog of older titles isn't well fleshed out.

Nice. Pity I can't get EA games on steam though.

(Not that there are that many good EA games, but still...)