Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026

Intentionally Awkward Controls: 8 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. 0 of 34 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases fell 50% on the year before: 8 against 16.

Price: n/a
Price vs a year earlier: n/a
Releases, 12 months: 8
Upcoming games: 16
Games on the store: 98

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: 0

Launches: 34
Hit rate: 0.0%0.0% to 0.0%
Expected rate: 4.5%

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

Revenue spread

34 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: $12
Median: $485
Top tenth: $14,278

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: 8
Prior 12 months: 16

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.

Related niches

pairs with Intentionally Awkward Controls

Difficult + Intentionally Awkward Controlsno price7 releases in 12 months
Funny + Intentionally Awkward Controlsno price6 releases in 12 months
Physics + Intentionally Awkward Controlsno price4 releases in 12 months
Platformer + Intentionally Awkward Controlsno price3 releases in 12 months

Every pair with Intentionally Awkward Controls

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