VG Insights API information

The Video Game Insights API is available as an optional add-on to the business subscription. It allows users to connect straight to the VGI database and access a continuous dataflow.

Read the technical API documentation here to understand how to use it.

Overview of what's available through the API is provided below:

• Current performance of all Steam games
  • Revenue in $ (eg $1,250,000)
  • Units sold (eg 120,450)
  • Total followers (eg 14,000)
  • Follower gain in the last 2 weeks (eg 500)
  • 24h active players peak (eg 1,200)
  • Rating (eg 79% positive)
• Historical performance
  • Revenue, units sold, price, reviews and followers by date (eg daily revenue on 01/01/2021 was $23,222)
  • Daily concurrent players: peak, average, median and minimum number of players per day.
• Price history in all supported currencies
  • Price changes of a Steam game in all the currencies in which the game is sold on Steam.
• Game ranking among other Steam games
  • Lifetime reviews, lifetime revenue, lifetime units sold, units sold yesterday, lifetime followers, 24h active players, average playtime global rankings (eg 150 / 75,000)
• Player insights for all Steam games with >500 reviews
  • Average playtime of the game
    • Average playtime in hours (eg 14h)
  • Units sold by country for the 20 largest countries
    • Country name and code (eg US and United States)
    • Percentage split (eg 30% sales from the US)
  • Units sold by region for all regions
    • Region name (eg Europe)
    • Percentage split (eg 39% sales from Europe)
• Game overview
  • Game price
  • Release date (eg 01/01/2021)
  • Game genres, subgenres (eg RPG, JRPG)
  • Game mode, theme, art style, character (eg Single player, Medieval, Pixel Graphics, Top-Down)
  • Steam tags (eg Cats, Cosy, Crafting)
  • Release type (eg Early Access)
  • Supported languages (eg English, Russian)
  • Publisher classification (AAA / AA / Indie)
  • Publishing (eg Self-published)
  • List of developers and publishers
• Company overview
  • Name
  • Classification (AAA / AA / Indie)
  • Games developed or published
  • Games in development
  • Total revenue in $ (eg $1,250,000)
  • Average and median revenue per game in $ (eg $136,000)
• Company lists
  • Lists of all Steam developers and publishers in VGI's database. The list includes the ID and name of each company.