Tag pairdata 30 Sep 2026
Niches / Action-Adventure / Robots
Action-Adventure + Robots: 17 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. 1 of 24 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 6% on the year before: 17 against 16.
- Small sample
- One game dominates the figure
- Price
- n/a under 30 launches
- Price vs a year earlier
- n/a no price
- Releases, 12 months
- 17 16 the year before
- Upcoming games
- 61 coming soon on Steam
- Games on the store
- 162 carrying both tags
Boards
as of 30 Sep 2026Where this pair stands on each board of the front page. Every value carries its 90% interval and its sample.
| Board | Value | Interval | Sample | Standing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Most anticipatedShare of all upcoming wishlist heat on Steam, with the number of upcoming games beside it.
| 0.02%share of upcoming wishlist heat | 0.01% to 0.03% | 5 ranked of 61 upcoming gameswishlist rank 30 Sep 2026 | #6,995 of 7,193pairs on this board |
| Launch successLaunches earning $100k or more, against the number expected for their price tier and launch quarter. | Below this board's minimum sample, so not ranked. Needs 30 or more matured launches. | |||
| Fewer new releasesFewer launches relative to players. Historically this did not predict better launches. | Below this board's minimum sample, so not ranked. Needs 15 or more tracked games and 20 or more releases in each 12-month period. | |||
| Rising demandGaining players faster than same-age games. Descriptive, not a launch signal. | Below this board's minimum sample, so not ranked. Needs 15 or more tracked games and 1,000 reviews in each window. | |||
Pairs are noisier than genres: the demand boards at pair level are indicative only.
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.
- Launches
- 24
- Hit rate
- 4.2%0.0% to 12.5%
- Expected rate
- 7.3%
Under 30 matured launches, so this pair is not on the launch success board. Read these counts as a small sample.
Revenue spread
24 launchesEstimated 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
- $172
- Top tenth
- $4,279
Estimated from Steam review counts. Lifetime to date, so it differs from the first-year price above.
Supply
raw release countsGames released with both tags, last 12 months against the 12 before.
- Change
- +6%
Parent tags
- Action-AdventureGenre pageRanked on every board, with its best pairs.
- RobotsNot a genreA theme, mood, feature or presentation tag: never ranked as a market on its own, only inside pairs.
Comparable games
8 indie titlesThe biggest indie games in this pair 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.
- Five Nights at Freddy's: Secret of the Mimic (opens the Steam store)2025 · 10,957 reviews, 86% positiveest. $8.9M
- PATLABOR the Case Files (opens the Steam store)2026 · 88 reviews, 56% positiveest. $62k
- TRANSFORMERS: EARTHSPARK - Expedition (opens the Steam store)2023 · 54 reviews, 70% positiveest. $44k
- Beat Slayer (opens the Steam store)2024 · 80 reviews, 88% positiveest. $32k
- Jenny the Witch (opens the Steam store)2026 · 73 reviews, 89% positiveest. $12k
- A-RED Walking Robot (opens the Steam store)2025 · 5 reviews, 80% positivetoo few reviews to estimate
- Duplicate Dissolution (opens the Steam store)2024 · 9 reviews, 100% positivetoo few reviews to estimate
- SurvAIval (opens the Steam store)2025 · 16 reviews, 37% positiveest. $1k to $10k
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- Action-Adventure + Gore$2,02430 launches priced, 18 releases in 12 months
More with Robots
pairs with Robots- Action + Robots$38348 launches priced, 97 releases in 12 months
- Casual + Robots$10132 launches priced, 49 releases in 12 months
- Sci-fi + Robotsno price66 releases in 12 months
- 2D + Robotsno price48 releases in 12 months
- Adventure + Robotsno price43 releases in 12 months
- 3D + Robotsno price40 releases in 12 months
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