Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026
Crime: 220 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. 35 of 232 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 73% on the year before: 220 against 127.
- Price
- n/a under 30 launches
- Price vs a year earlier
- n/a no price
- Releases, 12 months
- 220 127 the year before
- Upcoming games
- 644 coming soon on Steam
- Games on the store
- 1,493 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
- 232
- Hit rate
- 15.1%11.7% to 21.1%
- Expected rate
- 8.1%
Under 30 matured launches, so this tag is not on the launch success board. Read these counts as a small sample.
Revenue spread
232 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
- $80
- Median
- $1,880
- Top tenth
- $245,280
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
- +73%
Tag
- CrimeNot 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.
Schedule I (opens the Steam store)2025 · 290,347 reviews, 97% positiveest. $117M
Crime Scene Cleaner (opens the Steam store)2024 · 32,614 reviews, 98% positiveest. $18M
The Precinct (opens the Steam store)2025 · 7,894 reviews, 87% positiveest. $4.6M
Crime Boss: Rockay City (opens the Steam store)2024 · 8,627 reviews, 68% positiveest. $3.2M
Cash Cleaner Simulator (opens the Steam store)2025 · 7,368 reviews, 92% positiveest. $2.9M
Back to the Dawn (opens the Steam store)2023 · 8,575 reviews, 94% positiveest. $2.8M
Drug Dealer Simulator 2 (opens the Steam store)2024 · 5,491 reviews, 69% positiveest. $2.8M
Thief Simulator 2 (opens the Steam store)2023 · 6,593 reviews, 87% positiveest. $2.5M
More with Crime
pairs with Crime- Adventure + Crime$2,89333 launches priced, 75 releases in 12 months
- Simulation + Crimeno price73 releases in 12 months
- Detective + Crimeno price58 releases in 12 months
- Story Rich + Crimeno price52 releases in 12 months
- Casual + Crimeno price51 releases in 12 months
- Action + Crimeno price45 releases in 12 months
- Mystery + Crimeno price45 releases in 12 months
- First-Person + Crimeno price45 releases in 12 months
- Crime + Investigationno price44 releases in 12 months
- Puzzle + Crimeno price42 releases in 12 months
- 3D + Crimeno price41 releases in 12 months
- Horror + Crimeno price41 releases in 12 months
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