Tag pairdata 30 Sep 2026
Niches / Building / 3D Platformer
Building + 3D Platformer: 18 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. 0 of 23 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 29% on the year before: 18 against 14.
- Small sample
- Price
- n/a under 30 launches
- Price vs a year earlier
- n/a no price
- Releases, 12 months
- 18 14 the year before
- Upcoming games
- 40 coming soon on Steam
- Games on the store
- 103 carrying both tags
Boards
as of 30 Sep 2026Where this pair stands on each board of the front page. Every value carries its 90% interval and its sample.
| Board | Value | Interval | Sample | Standing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Most anticipatedShare of all upcoming wishlist heat on Steam, with the number of upcoming games beside it. | Below this board's minimum sample, so not ranked. Needs 5 or more wishlist-ranked upcoming games. | |||
| Launch successLaunches earning $100k or more, against the number expected for their price tier and launch quarter. | Below this board's minimum sample, so not ranked. Needs 30 or more matured launches. | |||
| Fewer new releasesFewer launches relative to players. Historically this did not predict better launches. | Below this board's minimum sample, so not ranked. Needs 15 or more tracked games and 20 or more releases in each 12-month period. | |||
| Rising demandGaining players faster than same-age games. Descriptive, not a launch signal. | Below this board's minimum sample, so not ranked. Needs 15 or more tracked games and 1,000 reviews in each window. | |||
Pairs are noisier than genres: the demand boards at pair level are indicative only.
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.
- Launches
- 23
- Hit rate
- 0.0%0.0% to 0.0%
- Expected rate
- 3.8%
Under 30 matured launches, so this pair is not on the launch success board. Read these counts as a small sample.
Revenue spread
23 launchesEstimated lifetime gross of the same matured launches. Half earned less than the median; one in ten earned more than the top figure.
- Bottom tenth
- $0
- Median
- $223
- Top tenth
- $5,809
Estimated from Steam review counts. Lifetime to date, so it differs from the first-year price above.
Supply
raw release countsGames released with both tags, last 12 months against the 12 before.
- Change
- +29%
Parent tags
- BuildingGenre pageRanked on every board, with its best pairs.
- 3D PlatformerGenre pageRanked on every board, with its best pairs.
Comparable games
8 indie titlesThe biggest indie games in this pair 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.
- s&box (opens the Steam store)2026 · 5,248 reviews, 45% positiveest. $1.1M
- Sebil Engineering (opens the Steam store)2023 · 82 reviews, 97% positiveest. $20k
- Tech Market Simulator (opens the Steam store)2025 · 69 reviews, 60% positiveest. $14k
- Junkster (opens the Steam store)2026 · 56 reviews, 98% positiveest. $11k
- The Lilliput Workshop (opens the Steam store)2025 · 51 reviews, 88% positiveest. $8.3k
- Kity Builder (opens the Steam store)2025 · 37 reviews, 94% positiveest. $1k to $10k
- Stack Prootocol (opens the Steam store)2025 · 28 reviews, 100% positiveest. $1k to $10k
- LINK Penguins (opens the Steam store)2026 · 31 reviews, 87% positiveest. $1k to $10k
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More with 3D Platformer
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- Difficult + 3D Platformer$72955 launches priced, 47 releases in 12 months
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