Steam Greenlight was launched on August 30, 2012 as a way for independent developers to propose new titles for distribution on Steam with the help of players.
The service has seen titles gain a lot of popularity through the Steam community and the feedback developers can receive for games in alpha and beta stages is very helpful.
In one year the amount of available independent titles has doubled and “new titles [are] being submitted every day.”
Gabe Newell stated in the official press release:
Ultimately our goal is to have no bottlenecks at all between developers and consumers. As we move closer to that, launching Greenlight and evolving our backend toolset has helped us increase our publishing throughput, pushing the number of independent titles released in the last twelve months to equal the number of titles published from all other categories combined. We expect that number to grow dramatically as we continue to iterate upon our developer service features and seek more ways to improve Steam’s value to the community.
Steam Greenlight also announced on August 28th that 100 titles were greenlit bringing the total number of titles to 260.
Source: Steam
