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Re: 'There's a Mistaken Belief This Will Actually Convert to Purchases' - Do Steam Wishlists Still Matter in 2026?

RadioCommMaid

ough, it's a hard question to answer because I have right now 540 games on my wishlist, and it's had a remarkably stable tendency to increase by about a 100 games each year for the last three.

This despite the fact that I also play nearly a 100 different games each year. Hell Steam replay keeps telling me year over year that I'm easily in the top 1 percentile of activity for steam users.

And like, I prune my wishlist for games I realise I won't ever actually play and try to buy and play games as they come out. But inevitably there's always more games releasing than I can keep up with. I cannot play games faster than I can find new games to play.

and as a result a lot of games do end up sitting in my wishlist with no real prospect of me actually finding the time to buy and play them over the other 539 games currently on that same wishlist.