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Estimated revenue, market economics, and the top games tagged Arcade on Steam.
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Total estimated revenue of Arcade games, grouped by the year they launched — a release-cohort trend, not a live time-series. Recent years are still accumulating revenue after launch.
Leaderboard
| # | Game | Est. revenue | Reviews | Score | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Subway Surfers | $2B | 41.6M | 91% | Free |
| 2 | Temple Run | $672.2M | 5.2M | 85% | Free |
| 3 | Minecraft: Dream it, Build it! | $664.8M | 5.7M |
| Year | Releases | Median rev | $100k+ | $1M+ | Total genre revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 37 | $457.7K | 95% | 32% | $247M |
| 2025 | 86 | $796.2K | 88% | 45% | $276.2M |
| 2024 | 78 | $359.4K | 73% | 22% | $206.8M |
| 2023 | 62 | $441.5K | 71% | 34% | $188.9M |
| 2022 | 75 | $365.5K | 71% | 28% | $199M |
| 2021 | 60 | $225K | 55% | 27% | $441M |
| 2020 | 54 | $423.7K | 67% | 33% | $291.7M |
| 2019 | 34 | $466.3K | 88% | 24% | $44M |
| 2018 | 46 | $585.6K | 76% | 35% | $138.9M |
| 2017 | 66 | $356.2K | 62% | 27% | $151.4M |
| 2016 | 59 | $230.6K | 64% | 19% | $70.9M |
| 2015 | 52 | $299.6K | 62% | 29% | $98.8M |
Median beats average here: genre revenue is hit-driven, so the median shows what the typical Arcade launch actually earned. Recent years accumulate revenue for a while after launch.
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| 4 | AHA Games: 10K+ Offline Games | $604.9M | 124.3K | 84% | Free |
| 5 | Subway Princess Runner | $553.7M | 2M | 87% | Free |
| 6 | Fruit Ninja® | $446.9M | 5.3M | 89% | Free |
| 7 | Hungry Shark Evolution | $431.8M | 7.6M | 90% | Free |
| 8 | Geometry Dash Lite | $426.3M | 7.8M | 88% | Free |
| 9 | Block Craft 3D：Building Game | $389.9M | 2.9M | 90% | Free |
| 10 | Stickman Party 234 MiniGames | $383.1M | 2.8M | 92% | Free |
| 11 | Stack Ball - Crash Platforms | $363.8M | 1.1M | 89% | Free |
| 12 | Sonic Dash Run | $362.2M | 6.5M | 94% | Free |
| 13 | Paper.io 2 | $320.5M | 2.5M | 82% | Free |
| 14 | Forza Horizon 5 | $317.3M | 278K | 89% | $59.99 |
| 15 | Join Clash 3D | $284.8M | 2.1M | 85% | Free |
| 16 | Payback 2 - The Battle Sandbox | $276.7M | 2.3M | 90% | Free |
| 17 | Galaxy Attack: Shooting Game | $233.7M | 2.5M | 93% | Free |
| 18 | Red Ball 4 | $219.5M | 3.6M | 93% | Free |
| 19 | Cooking Fever: Restaurant Game | $216.5M | 5M | 88% | Free |
| 20 | 2 Player games : the Challenge | $215.9M | 715.6K | 94% | Free |
| 21 | 1945 Air Force: Plane Shooter | $213.4M | 4.3M | 96% | Free |
| 22 | Jetpack Joyride | $204.5M | 4.8M | 89% | Free |
| 23 | Forza Horizon 6 | $203.7M | 89.3K | 84% | $69.99 |
| 24 | Cooking Madness: A Chef's Game | $201.7M | 3.3M | 95% | Free |
| 25 | Space shooter - Galaxy attack | $200.7M | 1.9M | 96% | Free |
| 26 | Vector | $189.3M | 3.7M | 94% | Free |
| 27 | Mob Control | $188.6M | 943K | 87% | Free |
| 28 | Dancing Road Color Balls Match | $182.3M | 774.4K | 92% | Free |
| 29 | Need for Speed™ Heat | $176.4M | 125.5K | 85% | $69.99 |
| 30 | Bottle Jump 3D | $170.6M | 385.4K | 89% | Free |
| 31 | Color Bump 3D: ASMR ball game | $146.8M | 672.3K | 87% | Free |
| 32 | Angry Birds Friends | $141.2M | 1.3M | 88% | Free |
| 33 | My Perfect Hotel | $137.2M | 1.8M | 91% | Free |
| 34 | Sky Roller: Rainbow Skating | $135.7M | 725.9K | 91% | Free |
| 35 | Hungry Shark World | $132.6M | 2.3M | 93% | Free |
| 36 | Geometry Dash SubZero | $130.8M | 964.2K | 90% | Free |
| 37 | Snake Clash! | $129.6M | 1.4M | 90% | Free |
| 38 | Sonic Boom Dash | $123.1M | 763.4K | 89% | Free |
| 39 | Geometry Dash World | $118.7M | 1.3M | 90% | Free |
| 40 | Need for Speed™ Unbound | $106.1M | 58.8K | 60% | $69.99 |
| 41 | Blockman Go | $99.8M | 2.9M | 84% | Free |
| 42 | Bouncemasters: Penguin Games | $99.8M | 577.7K | 90% | Free |
| 43 | Dan the Man: Action Platformer | $95.7M | 2M | 95% | Free |
| 44 | Rider – Stunt Bike Racing | $91.1M | 1.5M | 87% | Free |
| 45 | Drop Stack Ball - Helix Crash | $83.9M | 416.9K | 82% | Free |
| 46 | 1 2 3 4 Player Games - Offline | $83.8M | 155.3K | 93% | Free |
| 47 | Tower War - Tactical Conquest | $82.8M | 684.1K | 84% | Free |
| 48 | Galaxiga: Galaxy Arcade Game | $72M | 450.3K | 95% | Free |
| 49 | STAR: Super Tricky Amazing Run | $71.3M | 257.8K | 84% | Free |
| 50 | Snake Run Race・3D Running Game | $67.9M | 158.1K | 94% | Free |