More games released on Steam in 2014 already than during all of 2013

Too bad a good portion of it is probably the rubbish which is being thrown onto it. Steam really needs some quality control at the moment.

It's hard to filter through all of them and find that unpolished gem. But when you do...oh is it so satisfying. One of my favs that I randomly came across was Hard Reset. Totally wasn't expecting that to be as good as it was and got it for about $5 at the time.

Too many games is never a problem. Most people know what they want anyway when they buy a game on Steam, and even when they are just browsing. So most of the shovelware usually gets ignored, and sinks to the bottom.

This is good news as long as it doesn't count "early access" titles too.

So much for pc gaming being DEAD! :P

As other comments have said before me, and now I say in my own words - while I believe it's hard to have "too many games", it is possible to have "too much crap". Steam is oversaturated with too much indie crap and there is practically no official quality control on Valve's part. There are some genuinely good indie games on Steam, some thanks to Greenlight, but it's becoming more difficult to find them with the constant tsunamis of other bare-bone and/or unimpressive indie games that are constantly being pushed through Greenlight or Early Access.

Nowadays, I pretty much avoid indie titles like the plague and stick to more prominent publishers. Unless, the game is from an indie publisher whose games I have enjoyed in the past, or if there is still much acclaim about a particular indie game post-release.

Personally, a lot of the indie games on Steam are just utter crap. Even ones that were hyped to be good ones were over rated IMO. If I do buy from steam, I pretty much still end up getting more well known, quality commercial titles like Far Cry 3, Arkham Asylum, and Dark Soul when they go on sell. Seriously I would not fund any of those crap indie games. There is just no quality control. I do enjoy retro games and I know what old school good games is. I will take Super Mario, Castlevania games over those lousy wanna be indie games any day.

more like beta than actual releases.

Yeah, it's a shame that this influx of games is turning Steam into the AppStore. It's great to have many games, but Quality Control would be welcome to sort out the BS that is present in there.

More games as always good, but Steam seriously needs a massive redesign, it's ancient and it's store page is a mess, sorting through all the games deep buried inside doesn't help the developers. Nor the gamers for not providing any recommendation from the games you play.

It's a huge problem. Too many games and not enough quality control. User reviews and comments are a joke on Steam, the game creators can delete or even alter the content of negative comments and forum posts. I find myself buying fewer and fewer games on Steam simply because I can't trust the information I'm given via Steam about the games I'm looking at.

90% of those games I would not play them for free. So...thats a good thing really? Maybe it is...but...

No such things as to many games. However, they need to improve their search and categorization features.

I have Steam and too me it looks to crowded.

It's pretty easy to notice ''nope'' games on Steam, but it's also annoying having to through all the junk. I'm quite certain that i've played every game on Steam, that i'd like to play either way. Nowadays i'm just looking for entirely new games.

I don't even vote on Greenlight games anymore. 99% of them look like something someone knocked out over a weekend with RPG Creator.

I don't mind publishers putting their back catalogs on Steam, but there's something wrong when brand-new games are pushed down onto the second page of new releases the same day they come out by a bunch of games from 1998.

Yeah Steam seems to be overrunning a bit, cant be healthy.

Steam is just getting filled with shitty indie games now. Before it was ok since they seemed to have some kind of standard to uphold, now any old crap gets put on.

Steam is a terrible service, GOG and gamerrepublic.com are far better services and don't carry the stink of Gabe Newell's deception.

I wish they'd add a "Hide Indie Games" filter for Steam...

"Is it possible for Steam to have too many games?"

If they improve their search feature, then no.

Steam has since about 2008 had WAY WAY too many Indie games. How many times have we heard "Indies push the limits of creativity and are unlimited by big publishers like EA", to which I say "Indies have that potential but most of them don't live up to it.".

Indies are a plague. Those select few games that are worth picking up are normally drown before they even get started. It is time Steam started being more select with its game releases. It is even difficult to find a game that you want to play now because of the amount of Indies.

Couple that with the crap interface on Steam and it is like pulling teeth.

One of the biggest problems is that there are way too many publishers dumping their back catalog and it all ends up in 'new releases.' Steam needs to list the date the game was first published and not the date it got onto Steam.

Steam is full of shitty games, it clearly needs an enema.