Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026

Detective: 458 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. 60 of 580 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 50% on the year before: 458 against 306.

Price: n/a
Price vs a year earlier: n/a
Releases, 12 months: 458
Upcoming games: 1,152
Games on the store: 3,219

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: 60

Launches: 580
Hit rate: 10.3%7.4% to 13.0%
Expected rate: 7.3%

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

Revenue spread

580 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: $66
Median: $1,274
Top tenth: $100,646

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: 458
Prior 12 months: 306

Change: +50%

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 Detective

pairs with Detective

Visual Novel + Detective$5,29368 launches priced, 134 releases in 12 months
Detective + Mystery$5,207106 launches priced, 184 releases in 12 months
Story Rich + Detective$4,125108 launches priced, 153 releases in 12 months
Detective + Investigation$3,96395 launches priced, 150 releases in 12 months
Point & Click + Detective$2,10470 launches priced, 109 releases in 12 months
Exploration + Detective$1,94182 launches priced, 113 releases in 12 months
Adventure + Detective$1,619120 launches priced, 201 releases in 12 months
Puzzle + Detective$1,274143 launches priced, 244 releases in 12 months
Hidden Object + Detective$1,18352 launches priced, 73 releases in 12 months
Psychological Horror + Detective$1,09954 launches priced, 59 releases in 12 months
Detective + Interactive Fiction$1,09249 launches priced, 86 releases in 12 months
2D + Detective$97179 launches priced, 111 releases in 12 months

Every pair with Detective

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