Tag pairdata 30 Sep 2026
Niches / Immersive Sim / Dark Comedy
Immersive Sim + Dark Comedy: 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 10 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 267% on the year before: 11 against 3.
- Small sample
- One game dominates the figure
- Price
- n/a under 30 launches
- Price vs a year earlier
- n/a no price
- Releases, 12 months
- 11 3 the year before
- Upcoming games
- 26 coming soon on Steam
- Games on the store
- 57 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
- 10
- Hit rate
- 10.0%0.0% to 25.0%
- Expected rate
- 3.0%
Under 30 matured launches, so this pair is not on the launch success board. Read these counts as a small sample.
Revenue spread
10 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
- $203
- Median
- $2,812
- Top tenth
- $34,660
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
- +267%
Parent tags
- Immersive SimGenre pageRanked on every board, with its best pairs.
- Dark ComedyNot 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.
- Laundering Simulator - Clean Cash and Laundry (opens the Steam store)2025 · 404 reviews, 81% positiveest. $106k
- Unemployment Simulator 2018 (opens the Steam store)2026 · 132 reviews, 83% positiveest. $27k
- Goblin Goopmaxxing (opens the Steam store)2025 · 191 reviews, 93% positiveest. $15k
- Bite Night: Dine or Die (opens the Steam store)2026 · 86 reviews, 94% positiveest. $12k
- Gordy (opens the Steam store)2025 · 49 reviews, 89% positiveest. $1k to $10k
- green ogre gives you terrible life advice and dies (opens the Steam store)2024 · 83 reviews, 96% positiveest. $1.7k
- Roll me Home (opens the Steam store)2023 · 26 reviews, 88% positiveest. $1k to $10k
- PLEASE STOP CRYING: TERRIBLE TWOS (opens the Steam store)2025 · 14 reviews, 92% positiveest. under $1k
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More with Dark Comedy
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- 2D + Dark Comedyno price46 releases in 12 months
- Adventure + Dark Comedyno price45 releases in 12 months
- Funny + Dark Comedyno price39 releases in 12 months
- 3D + Dark Comedyno price37 releases in 12 months
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