Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026

Music: 135 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. 25 of 151 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 55% on the year before: 135 against 87.

Price: n/a
Price vs a year earlier: n/a
Releases, 12 months: 135
Upcoming games: 297
Games on the store: 1,206

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: 25

Launches: 151
Hit rate: 16.6%11.7% to 24.1%
Expected rate: 9.7%

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

Revenue spread

151 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: $60
Median: $1,778
Top tenth: $263,118

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: 135
Prior 12 months: 87

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.

More with Music

pairs with Music

Music + Rhythm$1,31439 launches priced, 79 releases in 12 months
Casual + Music$1,10135 launches priced, 70 releases in 12 months
Action + Musicno price40 releases in 12 months
Music + 2Dno price33 releases in 12 months
Music + Arcadeno price29 releases in 12 months
Music + Relaxingno price29 releases in 12 months
Music + Cuteno price25 releases in 12 months
Simulation + Musicno price23 releases in 12 months
Music + Colorfulno price21 releases in 12 months
Adventure + Musicno price20 releases in 12 months
Music + 3Dno price20 releases in 12 months
Music + Difficultno price17 releases in 12 months

Every pair with Music

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