Steam tag trend
Colorful Steady
Releases, reviews written and modeled launch revenue for Colorful on Steam, month by month (25,067 games with an estimate carry the tag).
Reviews written
+57%
682,579 in Jul–Sep 2026 vs 434,836 in Jul–Sep 2025
Paid releases
+79%
1,711 vs 956, same months (of 1,901 and 1,123 in all)
Upcoming games
13,538
median 17 followers (13,496 with a count); their total followers +6% in 30 days, over 416 games read at both ends (the largest weigh most)
Top contributor to the growth: How to Fish, 64,663 reviews in Jul–Sep 2026 against 0 a year earlier — 26% of the tag's increase.
We compare the last 3 complete months with the same 3 months a year earlier, which takes out the season. Reviews are counted on the tag’s paid games only (free-to-play games have no monthly review history with us), so releases are counted the same way: paid releases. A tag needs at least 30 paid releases and 1,000 reviews in both periods, and no more than 50% of its releases in the two years free to play; otherwise it is “too few”. Rising: review volume up 20% or more, by at least as much as paid releases, and no more than 50% of that growth from a single game. Cooling: review volume down 20% or more. Anything else: Steady.
Reviews written are summed over 15,870 paid Colorful games whose review history we re-read on or after Oct 1, 2026, so their last complete month is whole; 2 more, last read before that, are left out of every month alike (we re-read a game about once a week).
Our follower history starts Jul 13, 2026, so the 30-day change has nothing older to compare with. A game carries many tags and counts in each. Correlation only: a trend describes the past, it does not forecast.
Releases
Colorful games that first went on sale each month (tracked Steam games).
Reviews written
Steam reviews posted each month on Colorful's paid games of any age — the demand side. Free-to-play games have no monthly review history with us, so they are not counted.
Median revenue of the month's releases, 3 months in
Modeled: each paid release's estimated revenue at the last month boundary on or before 3 months after it first sold (2–3 months of sales), median per month, over the month's paid releases. Releases with no review yet have no history and are left out, so this is the median of reviewed launches and runs above a typical launch; each month shows its n of the paid releases. Through Jun 2026; younger months are not 3 months old yet.
Modeled estimate, not reported sales
Month by month
| Month | Releases | Paid | Median revenue, 3 mo | Reviews written |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 2026 | 660 | 583 | not yet | 201,278 |
| Aug 2026 | 694 | 626 | not yet | 258,942 |
| Jul 2026 | 547 | 502 | not yet | 222,359 |
| Jun 2026 | 475 | 413 | ≈$759n=294 of 413 | 204,270 |
| May 2026 | 405 | 334 | ≈$1.4Kn=269 of 334 | 164,945 |
| Apr 2026 | 497 | 445 | ≈$1.4Kn=351 of 445 | 150,643 |
| Mar 2026 | 538 | 468 | ≈$935n=370 of 468 | 176,803 |
| Feb 2026 | 322 | 271 | ≈$856n=190 of 271 | 144,949 |
| Jan 2026 | 338 | 296 | ≈$1.2Kn=237 of 296 | 180,687 |
| Dec 2025 | 401 | 335 | ≈$704n=243 of 335 | 178,356 |
| Nov 2025 | 498 | 441 | ≈$1.7Kn=346 of 441 | 189,044 |
| Oct 2025 | 390 | 338 | ≈$1.8Kn=265 of 338 | 136,299 |
| Sep 2025 | 353 | 309 | ≈$1.6Kn=236 of 309 | 121,040 |
| Aug 2025 | 381 | 325 | ≈$2.2Kn=241 of 325 | 147,042 |
| Jul 2025 | 389 | 322 | ≈$846n=231 of 322 | 166,754 |
| Jun 2025 | 411 | 331 | ≈$815n=256 of 331 | 149,611 |
| May 2025 | 365 | 311 | ≈$1.2Kn=239 of 311 | 140,780 |
| Apr 2025 | 395 | 336 | ≈$1.2Kn=257 of 336 | 112,470 |
| Mar 2025 | 402 | 347 | ≈$1.2Kn=284 of 347 | 134,067 |
| Feb 2025 | 293 | 237 | ≈$601n=173 of 237 | 124,089 |
| Jan 2025 | 260 | 219 | ≈$746n=166 of 219 | 139,710 |
| Dec 2024 | 333 | 283 | ≈$906n=211 of 283 | 177,558 |
| Nov 2024 | 406 | 348 | ≈$1.1Kn=278 of 348 | 193,994 |
| Oct 2024 | 353 | 285 | ≈$1.2Kn=239 of 285 | 130,762 |