Tag pairdata 30 Sep 2026
Niches / Casual / Time Travel
Casual + Time Travel: 11 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 23 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases fell 8% on the year before: 11 against 12.
- Small sample
- China market: over 35% of reviews are Chinese
- One game dominates the figure
- Price
- n/a under 30 launches
- Price vs a year earlier
- n/a no price
- Releases, 12 months
- 11 12 the year before
- Upcoming games
- 22 coming soon on Steam
- Games on the store
- 103 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
- 23
- Hit rate
- 4.3%0.0% to 10.1%
- Expected rate
- 5.2%
Under 30 matured launches, so this pair is not on the launch success board. Read these counts as a small sample.
Revenue spread
23 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
- $304
- Top tenth
- $9,827
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
- −8%
Parent tags
- CasualNot a genreA theme, mood, feature or presentation tag: never ranked as a market on its own, only inside pairs.
- Time TravelNot 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.
- Multiverse Loot Hunter (opens the Steam store)2025 · 2,599 reviews, 80% positiveest. $399k
- Love starts again (opens the Steam store)2025 · 63 reviews, 71% positiveest. $20k
- Dave.EXE (opens the Steam store)2026 · 55 reviews, 94% positiveest. $17k
- Unsupervised (opens the Steam store)2024 · 71 reviews, 70% positiveest. $11k
- Mushroom Age (opens the Steam store)2023 · 65 reviews, 98% positiveest. $9.2k
- Miracle Heroes: Temporal Bounty Hunter (opens the Steam store)2024 · 79 reviews, 92% positiveest. $3.2k
- BULLET (opens the Steam store)2024 · 17 reviews, 100% positiveest. $1k to $10k
- CYCLIA JOURNEY (opens the Steam store)2025 · 11 reviews, 81% positiveest. $1k to $10k
More with Casual
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- Casual + Romance$2,61486 launches priced, 137 releases in 12 months
- Casual + Economy$2,204112 launches priced, 302 releases in 12 months
- Casual + Online Co-Op$1,970104 launches priced, 272 releases in 12 months
- Casual + Capitalism$1,92351 launches priced, 130 releases in 12 months
More with Time Travel
pairs with Time Travel- Story Rich + Time Travelno price20 releases in 12 months
- Adventure + Time Travelno price17 releases in 12 months
- Puzzle + Time Travelno price15 releases in 12 months
- Visual Novel + Time Travelno price12 releases in 12 months
- Sci-fi + Time Travelno price11 releases in 12 months
- Exploration + Time Travelno price11 releases in 12 months
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