Genres

Ticker: price and year-over-year change for 40 genres. Price is the median estimated first-year revenue of indie paid launches. The same figures are on the Genres page.

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Game Market DataSteam market, quoted daily
Live games
191,514
on 30 Sep 2026

Cleaning price

No price: 7 launches in the last four quarters, and a price needs 30.

Genre report30 Sep 2026

Cleaning on Steam: launches, demand and upcoming games

Cleaning holds 0.47% of the wishlist heat on upcoming Steam games, across 27 ranked upcoming games.

Standing on six boards

Most anticipated

#124 of 133 genres

Share of all wishlist heat on upcoming Steam games, weighted toward dated, near-term releases.

0.47%

90% interval 0.20% to 0.81%

27 ranked upcoming games, wishlist rank 30 Sep 2026

  • 78% of the heat is dated within 90 days.
  • 10% is undated or TBA.
  • 1 long-anticipated page (top 1,000, public 2+ years).
  • One game carries much of the reading.
  • Ranked after unflagged genres because of this.

Total wishlist heat, so big genres lead. Not backtested yet: wishlist-rank history started 30 Sep 2026.

Gaining fast

Week-over-week follower growth of upcoming games.

Collecting since 30 Sep, first readings 13 Oct.

Needs 14 days of daily follower counts. Nothing is estimated before then.

Launch success

How often indie paid launches reached $100k est. revenue, against the rate expected for their price and launch quarter.

Too little data to read: 19 launches. Needs 100 matured indie launches (30 for a tag pair).

1.0x is par: the hit rate of launches at the same price and in the same quarter across Steam. Indie paid launches 6 to 30 months old.

Fewer new releases

Player growth against release growth, relative to Steam overall.

Thin sample: 9 tracked games. Needs 30 tracked games, 1,000 reviews in each window and 20 releases in each 12-month period. Not ranked.

Fewer launches relative to players. Historically this did not predict better launches.

Rising demand

How much faster this genre’s games gained reviews than same-age games elsewhere, year on year.

Thin sample: 9 tracked games. Needs 30 tracked games (15 for a tag pair) and 1,000 reviews in each window. Not ranked.

Gaining players faster than same-age games. Descriptive, not a launch signal.

Price

Median est. first-year revenue of indie paid launches over the last four complete quarters.

Too little data to read: 7 launches. Needs 30 launches in the window.

Estimated from store review counts, so treat it as a level, not an invoice.

Genres are ranked against each other on each board; a "thin" or "too little data" board is left unranked rather than guessed. Every value has its sample size and window beside it.

Top tag pairs

Cleaning + another tag, top 5 per board

Sub-markets inside Cleaning: games carrying both tags in their top ten. Pairs that hold half or more of the genre's games are left out, since they are the genre again. Each pair links to its own page.

Most anticipated

No Cleaning pair meets this board's minimum sample.

Launch success

No Cleaning pair meets this board's minimum sample.

Fewer new releases

No Cleaning pair meets this board's minimum sample.

Rising demand

No Cleaning pair meets this board's minimum sample.

Price

No Cleaning pair meets this board's minimum sample.

Upcoming Cleaning games

verified 1 Oct 2026

From the verified release calendar: games tagged Cleaning among their top store tags, each re-checked against the live store page. Wishlist rank and followers carry the date they were read.

Next 90 days

CapsuleGameReleaseWishlist rankFollowers
Cozy Game RestorationParasol CorpNov 4, 2026in 35 days#14830 Sep 20269,51030 Sep 2026

Cleaning games releasing in the next 90 days

Dated within a year

None of the 30 verified later games.

Method

methodology v0.7

Revenue figures are estimates from store review counts. Indie means a list price under $40 and not a named major publisher. Board values are computed 1 Oct 2026 from data up to 30 Sep 2026. Validation of the boards against later launches is in progress.

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Releases

Ticker: 30 upcoming games dated within 90 days, with wishlist rank, release date and followers. The same list is on the Upcoming page.