Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026
Cinematic: 344 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. 64 of 524 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 2% on the year before: 344 against 338.
- Big publishers: over 85% from majors or $40+ games
- Price
- n/a under 30 launches
- Price vs a year earlier
- n/a no price
- Releases, 12 months
- 344 338 the year before
- Upcoming games
- 1,088 coming soon on Steam
- Games on the store
- 2,593 carrying both tags
Boards
as of 30 Sep 2026Where 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.
- Launches
- 524
- Hit rate
- 12.2%8.0% to 16.9%
- Expected rate
- 7.8%
Under 30 matured launches, so this tag is not on the launch success board. Read these counts as a small sample.
Revenue spread
524 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
- $20
- Median
- $1,402
- Top tenth
- $130,600
Estimated from Steam review counts. Lifetime to date, so it differs from the first-year price above.
Supply
raw release countsGames released with this tag, last 12 months against the 12 before.
- Change
- +2%
Tag
- CinematicNot 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 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.
ROUTINE (opens the Steam store)2025 · 7,430 reviews, 91% positiveest. $3.8M
REPLACED (opens the Steam store)2026 · 9,372 reviews, 84% positiveest. $3.6M
INDIKA (opens the Steam store)2024 · 7,069 reviews, 89% positiveest. $3.5M
The Casting of Frank Stone™ (opens the Steam store)2024 · 5,599 reviews, 62% positiveest. $3.3M
Over The Top: WWI (opens the Steam store)2026 · 6,708 reviews, 84% positiveest. $2.6M
METAL GEAR SOLID 3: Snake Eater - Master Collection Version (opens the Steam store)2023 · 5,458 reviews, 89% positiveest. $2.2M
Railroader (opens the Steam store)2023 · 3,357 reviews, 96% positiveest. $2M
Jusant (opens the Steam store)2023 · 4,139 reviews, 93% positiveest. $2M
More with Cinematic
pairs with Cinematic- Cinematic + Immersive Sim$24,23132 launches priced, 35 releases in 12 months
- Psychological Horror + Cinematic$5,00947 launches priced, 58 releases in 12 months
- Cinematic + Mystery$4,60234 launches priced, 41 releases in 12 months
- Cinematic + Interactive Fiction$4,18748 launches priced, 48 releases in 12 months
- Story Rich + Cinematic$4,03368 launches priced, 73 releases in 12 months
- Cinematic + Walking Simulator$3,57532 launches priced, 57 releases in 12 months
- Visual Novel + Cinematic$3,13241 launches priced, 59 releases in 12 months
- Cinematic + Realistic$2,22360 launches priced, 70 releases in 12 months
- Simulation + Cinematic$1,98945 launches priced, 74 releases in 12 months
- Horror + Cinematic$1,83078 launches priced, 83 releases in 12 months
- Adventure + Cinematic$1,567142 launches priced, 174 releases in 12 months
- First-Person + Cinematic$1,53772 launches priced, 104 releases in 12 months
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