Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026

Dark Fantasy: 657 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. 70 of 670 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 83% on the year before: 657 against 359.

Price: n/a
Price vs a year earlier: n/a
Releases, 12 months: 657
Upcoming games: 2,032
Games on the store: 4,242

Boards

as of 30 Sep 2026

Where 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.

Hits: 70

Launches: 670
Hit rate: 10.4%8.0% to 15.0%
Expected rate: 8.3%

Under 30 matured launches, so this tag is not on the launch success board. Read these counts as a small sample.

Revenue spread

670 launches

Estimated 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: $1,011
Top tenth: $107,135

Estimated from Steam review counts. Lifetime to date, so it differs from the first-year price above.

Supply

raw release counts

Games released with this tag, last 12 months against the 12 before.

Last 12 months: 657
Prior 12 months: 359

Change: +83%

Comparable games

8 indie titles

The 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.

More with Dark Fantasy

pairs with Dark Fantasy

Dark Fantasy + Action Roguelike$4,04545 launches priced, 85 releases in 12 months
Hack and Slash + Dark Fantasy$3,96244 launches priced, 67 releases in 12 months
Action-Adventure + Dark Fantasy$3,09649 launches priced, 105 releases in 12 months
Roguelite + Dark Fantasy$3,01348 launches priced, 122 releases in 12 months
Adventure + Dark Fantasy$2,83293 launches priced, 207 releases in 12 months
Action RPG + Dark Fantasy$2,34646 launches priced, 94 releases in 12 months
First-Person + Dark Fantasy$2,14430 launches priced, 66 releases in 12 months
Dungeon Crawler + Dark Fantasy$2,04340 launches priced, 87 releases in 12 months
Roguelike + Dark Fantasy$1,92250 launches priced, 109 releases in 12 months
Medieval + Dark Fantasy$1,63830 launches priced, 58 releases in 12 months
RPG + Dark Fantasy$1,33592 launches priced, 233 releases in 12 months
Action + Dark Fantasy$1,26796 launches priced, 228 releases in 12 months

Every pair with Dark Fantasy

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