Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026

Swordplay: 75 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. 10 of 112 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases fell 17% on the year before: 75 against 90.

Price: n/a
Price vs a year earlier: n/a
Releases, 12 months: 75
Upcoming games: 320
Games on the store: 852

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: 10

Launches: 112
Hit rate: 8.9%4.5% to 14.3%
Expected rate: 6.9%

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

Revenue spread

112 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: $535
Top tenth: $51,857

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: 75
Prior 12 months: 90

Change: −17%

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 Swordplay

pairs with Swordplay

Action + Swordplay$52437 launches priced, 49 releases in 12 months
Hack and Slash + Swordplayno price28 releases in 12 months
Combat + Swordplayno price23 releases in 12 months
Action RPG + Swordplayno price18 releases in 12 months
2D + Swordplayno price18 releases in 12 months
Action-Adventure + Swordplayno price15 releases in 12 months
Arcade + Swordplayno price15 releases in 12 months
RPG + Swordplayno price13 releases in 12 months
Swordplay + Souls-likeno price13 releases in 12 months
Medieval + Swordplayno price12 releases in 12 months
3D + Swordplayno price12 releases in 12 months
Third Person + Swordplayno price12 releases in 12 months

Every pair with Swordplay

Verdicts

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