Tag pairdata 30 Sep 2026
Niches / Board Game / Hand-drawn
Board Game + Hand-drawn: 15 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 25 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 7% on the year before: 15 against 14.
- 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
- 15 14 the year before
- Upcoming games
- 42 coming soon on Steam
- Games on the store
- 122 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. | Below this board's minimum sample, so not ranked. Needs 5 or more wishlist-ranked upcoming games. | |||
| 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
- 25
- Hit rate
- 4.0%0.0% to 10.8%
- Expected rate
- 8.4%
Under 30 matured launches, so this pair is not on the launch success board. Read these counts as a small sample.
Revenue spread
25 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
- $1,066
- Top tenth
- $13,356
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
- +7%
Parent tags
- Board GameGenre pageRanked on every board, with its best pairs.
- Hand-drawnNot 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.
- Dungeon Inn (opens the Steam store)2024 · 594 reviews, 92% positiveest. $180k
- How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine (opens the Steam store)2025 · 160 reviews, 83% positiveest. $42k
- Amberspire (opens the Steam store)2026 · 58 reviews, 86% positiveest. $29k
- Use Your Words 2 (opens the Steam store)2024 · 52 reviews, 82% positiveest. $16k
- Gemblades (opens the Steam store)2026 · 63 reviews, 93% positiveest. $10k
- The Isle of Cats (opens the Steam store)2025 · 32 reviews, 81% positiveest. $1k to $10k
- Demon Loop (opens the Steam store)2024 · 36 reviews, 83% positiveest. $1k to $10k
- Caverna (opens the Steam store)2025 · 22 reviews, 72% positiveest. $1k to $10k
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- Card Game + Board Game$40467 launches priced, 164 releases in 12 months
More with Hand-drawn
pairs with Hand-drawn- Story Rich + Hand-drawn$5,46489 launches priced, 127 releases in 12 months
- Emotional + Hand-drawn$3,75736 launches priced, 43 releases in 12 months
- Hand-drawn + Female Protagonist$2,64735 launches priced, 65 releases in 12 months
- Adventure + Hand-drawn$2,418137 launches priced, 233 releases in 12 months
- Hand-drawn + Interactive Fiction$2,02244 launches priced, 62 releases in 12 months
- Visual Novel + Hand-drawn$1,84974 launches priced, 139 releases in 12 months
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