Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026

Base Building: 496 releases in the last 12 months

There is no price yet: it needs 30 or more indie paid launches in the last four complete quarters. 125 of 630 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 36% on the year before: 496 against 366.

Price: n/a
Price vs a year earlier: n/a
Releases, 12 months: 496
Upcoming games: 2,091
Games on the store: 4,296

Boards

as of 30 Sep 2026

Where this tag stands on each board of the front page. Every value carries its 90% interval and its sample.

Boards rank genres and tag pairs. This tag is a theme, mood, feature or presentation tag, so it is never ranked as a market on its own; its pairs are listed below.

Launch success

Matured indie paid launches that earned an estimated $100k or more, against the number expected for games at the same price tier and launch quarter.

Hits: 125

Launches: 630
Hit rate: 19.8%17.8% to 27.0%
Expected rate: 11.7%

Under 30 matured launches, so this tag is not on the launch success board. Read these counts as a small sample.

Revenue spread

630 launches

Estimated lifetime gross of the same matured launches. Half earned less than the median; one in ten earned more than the top figure.

Bottom tenth: $40
Median: $3,663
Top tenth: $469,489

Estimated from Steam review counts. Lifetime to date, so it differs from the first-year price above.

Supply

raw release counts

Games released with this tag, last 12 months against the 12 before.

Last 12 months: 496
Prior 12 months: 366

Change: +36%

Comparable games

8 indie titles

The biggest indie games in this tag by estimated lifetime gross. Revenue is shown as a number at 50 or more reviews, as a range at 10 to 49, and not at all below 10.

More with Base Building

pairs with Base Building

Base Building + Colony Sim$22,86553 launches priced, 64 releases in 12 months
RPG + Base Building$17,28632 launches priced, 49 releases in 12 months
Base Building + Automation$14,08239 launches priced, 83 releases in 12 months
RTS + Base Building$13,91454 launches priced, 61 releases in 12 months
Base Building + Management$12,38472 launches priced, 109 releases in 12 months
City Builder + Base Building$11,53773 launches priced, 109 releases in 12 months
Crafting + Base Building$8,90179 launches priced, 125 releases in 12 months
Simulation + Base Building$7,38289 launches priced, 173 releases in 12 months
Survival + Base Building$6,75592 launches priced, 113 releases in 12 months
Strategy + Base Building$6,139160 launches priced, 260 releases in 12 months
Open World + Base Building$5,82653 launches priced, 70 releases in 12 months
Base Building + Resource Management$5,46185 launches priced, 120 releases in 12 months

Every pair with Base Building

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