Single tagdata 30 Sep 2026

Underground: 108 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. 5 of 129 matured launches earned $100k or more. Releases rose 59% on the year before: 108 against 68.

Price: n/a
Price vs a year earlier: n/a
Releases, 12 months: 108
Upcoming games: 285
Games on the store: 667

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: 5

Launches: 129
Hit rate: 3.9%2.2% to 7.7%
Expected rate: 3.8%

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

Revenue spread

129 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: $405
Top tenth: $13,646

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: 108
Prior 12 months: 68

Change: +59%

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 Underground

pairs with Underground

Exploration + Undergroundno price47 releases in 12 months
Mining + Undergroundno price35 releases in 12 months
Adventure + Undergroundno price34 releases in 12 months
Casual + Undergroundno price32 releases in 12 months
3D + Undergroundno price31 releases in 12 months
2D + Undergroundno price28 releases in 12 months
Simulation + Undergroundno price24 releases in 12 months
Action + Undergroundno price22 releases in 12 months
Horror + Undergroundno price20 releases in 12 months
First-Person + Undergroundno price19 releases in 12 months
Strategy + Undergroundno price17 releases in 12 months
Puzzle + Undergroundno price16 releases in 12 months

Every pair with Underground

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