Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026

Crafting: 654 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. 115 of 737 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 55% on the year before: 654 against 423.

Price: n/a
Price vs a year earlier: n/a
Releases, 12 months: 654
Upcoming games: 2,347
Games on the store: 4,896

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: 115

Launches: 737
Hit rate: 15.6%13.4% to 21.2%
Expected rate: 10.4%

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

Revenue spread

737 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: $0
Median: $2,428
Top tenth: $249,817

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: 654
Prior 12 months: 423

Change: +55%

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.

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pairs with Crafting

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Crafting + Life Sim$8,45137 launches priced, 65 releases in 12 months
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Crafting + Automation$6,72240 launches priced, 100 releases in 12 months
Survival + Crafting$4,66478 launches priced, 138 releases in 12 months
Crafting + Sandbox$4,55385 launches priced, 160 releases in 12 months
Crafting + Time Management$4,50230 launches priced, 49 releases in 12 months
Building + Crafting$3,94697 launches priced, 149 releases in 12 months

Every pair with Crafting

Verdicts

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