Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026

Text-Based: 743 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. 18 of 708 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 88% on the year before: 743 against 395.

Price: n/a
Price vs a year earlier: n/a
Releases, 12 months: 743
Upcoming games: 1,030
Games on the store: 3,624

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: 18

Launches: 708
Hit rate: 2.5%1.4% to 5.5%
Expected rate: 6.1%

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

Revenue spread

708 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: $607
Top tenth: $18,769

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: 743
Prior 12 months: 395

Change: +88%

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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Every pair with Text-Based

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