Steamworks wishlist reporting guide
How to check Steam wishlist additions in Steamworks
Steamworks records how many people add your game to their wishlists each day. The figures are available in the Sales & Activation Reports portal, not on the public store page.
Sign in to Steamworks, open your game in the Sales & Activation Reports portal, and select Wishlists. The report shows daily additions, purchases, and deletions, along with the history of wishlist activity for that game.
Where to find wishlist additions
- Sign in to Steamworks with an account that can view sales and activation reports.
- Open the Sales & Activation Reports portal.
- Select the game whose wishlist activity you want to inspect.
- Find the Wishlists section on the app details page.
- Open the wishlist report to see the daily history.
The additions column is the number of wishlist-add events recorded for that date. It is a daily flow, not the total number of people currently holding the game on a wishlist.
Why the latest date may be yesterday
Steam wishlist reporting is not real time. Valve says the report is updated daily for the previous date. For example, a report viewed on March 2 normally contains complete data through March 1. A blank current-day row does not mean the game received no wishlists.
See the separate explanation of how often Steam wishlist statistics update for the difference between the report portal and the wishlist reporting API.
What else the report contains
The main wishlist report tracks additions, purchases, and deletions. Steamworks also provides regional wishlist information through the Regional Sales Report. The platform-specific section covers users who explicitly selected a platform preference, so those platform figures will usually be lower than total additions.
You can download the report as CSV when you need to compare dates or work with the data in a spreadsheet. In that export, DateLocal is the Pacific Time purchase date and MonthCohort is the month when the customer originally added the game to a wishlist.
Checking wishlist additions through the API
Valve also provides the IPartnerFinancialsService/GetAppWishlistReporting endpoint. It accepts an App ID and date, then returns summary totals for additions, deletions, purchases, and gifts. Country and language summaries are included as well.
The endpoint requires a publisher key with financial permissions. A normal Steam Community Web API key is not enough. If you need one, follow the guide to create a Steamworks Financial API Group key.
How to read the result
Start with the date and the additions count. Compare it with nearby days and note what happened around the same time, such as a festival, announcement, trailer, demo update, or store-page change. One day in isolation rarely explains much. A sequence of daily figures is more useful than a single spike.
Do not treat additions as sales or subtract removals to calculate revenue. Each field records a different wishlist action. The guide to wishlist additions, purchases, and removals explains those fields in detail.