Steam has over 40,000 ‘indie’ games, and this is fine

Valve Software is introducing a lot of new features to improve the experience of finding games on its Steam platform. And the reasons it needs these upgrades is obvious: Steam has a lot of games. How many? Well, thanks to the new Steam search that launched today, we have some idea. The “indie” category alone has more than 40,000 entries.

It’s not exactly accurate to say that Steam has 40,000 different indie games. That number includes every store entry with the “indie” tag. Some games have separate listings for their various collector’s editions. And a lot of downloadable content also falls under the “indie” category.