Game Gap
Effortless analysis of gaps in the game industry
Save time with a ready-made analysis of the gaps that exist on Steam. Using our Steam Map, we’ve found over 100 unique market segments that describe underserved audiences, missed opportunities and outliers.
Ditch Trends and Make Something Unique
Analyse what players want to play, where other games have missed the mark and get inspired by the most successful unique games on Steam to create a new genres.
Game Gap identifies underserved audiences, missed opportunities and outliers to inspire you to develop a game that gives players a unique experience that they want to play.
Each market segment highlights an area of Steam that is validated, loved by players, but ignored by AAAs, ensuring that you can identify the best opportunities for your next game.
Find The Right Opportunities For You
Whether you have an idea, are open to inspiration or only make specific types of games, you can analyse the market segments that are most relevant to you.
Apply filters to find your favourite market segments and test whether your idea already targets an under served audience, provides a better experience than existing games or joins an outlier to form a new genre.
Stay aware of any risks with warnings when a segment contains older games, has a high volume of upcoming games or when the games in a segment are likely to be achievement farms.
Get Inspired For Your Next Game
Get a feel for each segment with detailed overviews, summarised statistics, common features and a breakdown of what’s missing from existing games.
Make quick and easy decisions about each segment with an overview of the saturation, player demand, big studio presence and player reception.
Use the review summary to understand what players liked about the games in each segment and avoid the common mistakes that other games make.
Dive Into The Data
Game Gap brings you all of the data visualisation capabilities from Data Explorer so you can dive into the data behind each market segment.
Analyse correlations with the scatterplot, view distributions with the histogram and explore common release schedules with heatmaps.
Customise the table with the metrics that matter to you, or download all the data for the segment you’re interested in to analyse the data in your own way.
