Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026

Economy: 762 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. 93 of 646 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 102% on the year before: 762 against 378.

Price: n/a
Price vs a year earlier: n/a
Releases, 12 months: 762
Upcoming games: 1,736
Games on the store: 3,781

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: 93

Launches: 646
Hit rate: 14.4%11.3% to 19.6%
Expected rate: 9.0%

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

Revenue spread

646 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: $101
Median: $3,428
Top tenth: $169,890

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: 762
Prior 12 months: 378

Change: +102%

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 Economy

pairs with Economy

Trading + Economy$24,39844 launches priced, 105 releases in 12 months
Sandbox + Economy$15,26966 launches priced, 136 releases in 12 months
Economy + Shop Keeper$15,12233 launches priced, 133 releases in 12 months
Economy + Life Sim$15,00083 launches priced, 128 releases in 12 months
Economy + Immersive Sim$14,95288 launches priced, 116 releases in 12 months
Realistic + Economy$10,95531 launches priced, 37 releases in 12 months
First-Person + Economy$9,96156 launches priced, 91 releases in 12 months
City Builder + Economy$9,56148 launches priced, 64 releases in 12 months
Relaxing + Economy$7,82849 launches priced, 115 releases in 12 months
Building + Economy$7,77095 launches priced, 122 releases in 12 months
Economy + Management$7,576212 launches priced, 458 releases in 12 months
Simulation + Economy$6,979210 launches priced, 540 releases in 12 months

Every pair with Economy

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