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

Trivia price

$111

down -8.5%on a year earlier

Launches
54
Window
2024 Q4 to 2025 Q3
Rank
#126 of 126

Median est. first-year revenue of indie paid launches. No price history series is in the site data yet, so there is no chart.

Genre report30 Sep 2026

Trivia indie launches earn a median $111 in their first year, down 8.5% on a year earlier

Indie launches in Trivia reached $100k est. revenue 0.65x as often as launches at the same price and in the same quarter across Steam (133 launches).

Standing on six boards

Most anticipated

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

Thin sample: 3 ranked upcoming games. Needs 10 wishlist-ranked upcoming games (5 for a tag pair). Not ranked.

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

#83 of 115 genres

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

down 0.65x

90% interval 0.48x to 1.17x

133 launches, indie paid launches 31 Mar 2024 to 1 Apr 2026 (6-30 months old)

  • 2 of 133 launches reached $100k, against 4.6 expected.

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: 14 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: 14 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

#126 of 126 genres

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

$111

54 launches, 2024 Q4 to 2025 Q3

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

Trivia + another tag, top 5 per board

Sub-markets inside Trivia: 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 Trivia pair meets this board's minimum sample.

Launch success

Tag pairValueLaunches
2D + Triviaup 1.09x58
Puzzle + Triviadown 0.94x54
Trivia + Word Gamedown 0.80x34

Fewer new releases

No Trivia pair meets this board's minimum sample.

Rising demand

No Trivia pair meets this board's minimum sample.

Price

No Trivia pair meets this board's minimum sample.

Upcoming Trivia games

verified 1 Oct 2026

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

None of the 60 verified games on the release calendar carries Trivia in its top tags right now. Full calendar

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.

GMD Verdicts

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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.