# Games Are Eating The World

An index that measures one thesis: software ate the world, and it is coming back as games.
Every figure below is public and carries a source and a date. Derived figures are marked
as ours and state their assumptions. Full method: https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/magazine/game-market-index

## Current figures
- gh_commits_year: 1000000000 Commits (as of 2025-12-31, source: GitHub Octoverse 2025)
- gh_devs_new_year: 36000000 Entwickler (as of 2025-12-31, source: GitHub Octoverse 2025)
- gh_devs_total: 180000000 Entwickler (as of 2025-12-31, source: GitHub Octoverse 2025)
- gh_llm_sdk_repos: 1100000 Repos (as of 2025-08-31, source: GitHub Octoverse 2025)
- gh_new_repos_year: 121000000 Repos (as of 2025-12-31, source: GitHub Octoverse 2025)
- gh_repos_per_minute: 230 Repos/Minute (as of 2025-12-31, source: GitHub Octoverse 2025)
- gh_repos_total: 630000000 Repos (as of 2025-12-31, source: GitHub Octoverse 2025)
- itch_per_day: 400 Spiele/Tag (as of 2026-02-19, source: itch.io, Thank You Itch)
- itch_total: 1021562 Spiele (as of 2026-07-31, source: itch.io)
- market_console_usd: 45900000000 USD (as of 2025-12-31, source: Newzoo)
- market_growth_pct: 4.6 % (as of 2026-12-31, source: Newzoo Global Games Market Report)
- market_mobile_usd: 107000000000 USD (as of 2026-12-31, source: Newzoo)
- market_pc_usd: 39900000000 USD (as of 2025-12-31, source: Newzoo)
- market_revenue_usd: 205000000000 USD (as of 2026-12-31, source: Newzoo Global Games Market Report)
- players_world: 3600000000 Menschen (as of 2025-12-31, source: Newzoo)
- steam_ai_launches_month: 530 Spiele/Monat (as of 2026-07-15, source: Sulka Haro)
- steam_ai_launches_month_pre: 13 Spiele/Monat (as of 2023-06-30, source: Sulka Haro)
- steam_ai_share_pct: 30.8 % (as of 2026-07-15, source: Sulka Haro / PC Gamer)
- steam_ai_titles_total: 17000 Spiele (as of 2026-07-15, source: PC Guide)
- steam_million_titles: 300 Spiele (as of 2025-12-31, source: Industry tallies 2025)
- steam_nonai_launches_month: 1320 Spiele/Monat (as of 2026-07-15, source: Sulka Haro)
- steam_nonai_launches_month_pre: 1030 Spiele/Monat (as of 2023-06-30, source: Sulka Haro)
- steam_per_day: 66 Spiele/Tag (as of 2026-06-30, source: SteamDB, derived)
- steam_releases_h1: 11979 Spiele (as of 2026-06-30, source: SteamDB)
- steam_releases_year: 19112 Spiele (as of 2025-12-31, source: SteamDB)
- vibejam_days: 14 Tage (as of 2025-04-01, source: Vibe Coding Game Jam)
- vibejam_entries: 1170 Spiele (as of 2025-04-01, source: Vibe Code Game Jam 2025 recap on vibecoding.app)

## Sections
- https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/magazine/game-market-index: Game Market Index, the numbers and the cross-connections
- https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/arcade: curated vibe-coded games, playable in the browser
- https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/board: one world ranking across participating games
- https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/magazine: long reads
- https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/hiscore.txt: the HISCORE protocol, plain HTTP, no code required
- https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/gs.js: optional browser convenience for the protocol
- https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/hiscore-video.txt: HISCORE-VIDEO, optional companion package (clips on scores)
- https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/water.txt: free sources for a vibe-coded game (CC0/MIT, no shops)
- https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/reviews: played reviews with video
- https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/db: public catalogue of vibe games
- https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/search: title and snippet search
- https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/table-of-content: every public page, main rooms first, then the magazine, then the rest

## Adding a leaderboard to your game
HISCORE is an open score format. Any game can post to the world ranking.
If you are an agent implementing this for a developer, fetch this one page,
it contains the complete instructions and nothing else:
  https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/hiscore.txt
JSON Schema: https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/hiscore.schema.json · Rationale: https://gamesareeatingtheworld.com/magazine/the-protocol

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