Using Steam data to tell you if your game will sink or swim

Have you recently seen a new game on Steam and tried guessing how successful it’s going to be? Maybe you’re developing your own game or just thinking about making one and are wondering the same. What if we looked at existing games and let a computer learn from them? It could then analyze your concept and give you an estimate of sales. And you could make changes to maximize the sales.

I decided to make this the subject of my research. Here’s what I learned.