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)
- Average playtime of the game
- 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.