Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026

4 Player Local: 155 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 224 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 10% on the year before: 155 against 141.

One game dominates the figure

Price: n/a
Price vs a year earlier: n/a
Releases, 12 months: 155
Upcoming games: 381
Games on the store: 1,553

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: 224
Hit rate: 4.5%2.6% to 7.9%
Expected rate: 7.9%

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

Revenue spread

224 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: $809
Top tenth: $17,661

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: 155
Prior 12 months: 141

Change: +10%

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.

Related niches

pairs with 4 Player Local

Local Co-Op + 4 Player Local$2,32636 launches priced, 37 releases in 12 months
Multiplayer + 4 Player Local$80957 launches priced, 65 releases in 12 months
4 Player Local + Local Multiplayer$70769 launches priced, 89 releases in 12 months
Action + 4 Player Local$70763 launches priced, 84 releases in 12 months
PvP + 4 Player Local$67746 launches priced, 68 releases in 12 months
Arcade + 4 Player Local$52649 launches priced, 63 releases in 12 months
Casual + 4 Player Local$50652 launches priced, 76 releases in 12 months
4 Player Local + Party Gameno price63 releases in 12 months
Funny + 4 Player Localno price35 releases in 12 months
4 Player Local + Family Friendlyno price33 releases in 12 months
3D + 4 Player Localno price24 releases in 12 months
2D + 4 Player Localno price23 releases in 12 months

Every pair with 4 Player Local

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