The start of a new year marks a good time to look back and reflect. Now that 2017 is over with let's take a moment to see what’s been going on at itch.io for the past year. In addition to highlighting some of our accomplishments, I’d also like to show off some of our creators and their projects that stood out. Enjoy!

The numbers

Creators on itch.io have been hard at work, in 2017 we saw:

The creation of 100,864 project pages, with 68,526 that ended up being published.

project pages, with that ended up being published. 1,646 game jams created, 45,551 people joined them, and 13,361 games were submitted

game jams created, people joined them, and games were submitted 45,789 builds processed through butler

builds processed through butler 320,885 files uploaded, totalling 12.5 TB of storage.

files uploaded, totalling of storage. 202,273 comments and threads made on projects page, communities, and jams.

comments and threads made on projects page, communities, and jams. 134,635 new collections created and 764,496 games & projects added to collections

new collections created and games & projects added to collections 282,144 new followers to itch.io accounts

A new homepage

In order to roll in the new year, we've rolled out a new homepage! We'll probably have more info later, but for now enjoy the update.

Updates to itch.io from 2017

In 2017 the itch.io website saw 3,942 commits with 1436 files changed, 134322 insertions(+), 26341 deletions(-) . As of today, the itch.io website contains 262,711 lines of code (not including third party libraries).

We’ve released dozens of incremental features, but here are some of the highlights from the past year:

The itch.io blog

With 72 posts in the itch.io digest blog it might be a bit overwhelming to go through them all. Here are our top 5 editorial posts by views:

And here are the top 5 interviews:

itch.io Selects

In 2017 we’ve had a focus on curation and promotion to help developers get more attention on their projects.

We launched itch.io Selects, a regular curated bundle of games, as a way to highlight some of our favorites combined with a nice discount. Look forward to more bundles in 2018.

We’ve been keen on site-wide promotions like the itch.io Summer sales, Halloween sales, and Winter Sales. In 2018 we hope to have bigger and more interesting events!

The games

Now lets take a look at some of the top games from 2017. I tried to pull lists that were interesting, if you have any ideas for other lists then leave a comment below.

Most popular games published in 2017

The games that were most downloaded, purchased, viewed, and played in 2017

Most purchased paid games published in 2017

The games that received the most number of purchases

Most downloaded games created for jams in 2017

Most tipped games in 2017

All payments on itch.io are pay-what-you-want above the minimum. Here are the games with supportive fans that received the highest average amount above their minimum price. (The list is filtered to games that got at least 100 purchases)

Most tipped games created for jams in 2017

Just because your game is free doesn’t mean you can receive tips. Here are free games created for jams in 2017 with the most tips.

The jams

Top jams by number of participants in 2017

Top jams by number of submmissions

Some More

Top used tags in 2017

Tags are developers can free-form classify their games. Here are the top tags used in 2017:

Congratulations to everyone who made it on these lists, and thank you to everyone who has used itch.io in 2017. We look forward to what 2018 brings. Thanks for reading.