Steam tag trend
Dark Steady
Releases, reviews written and modeled launch revenue for Dark on Steam, month by month (10,303 games with an estimate carry the tag).
Reviews written
+12%
561,983 in Jul–Sep 2026 vs 502,939 in Jul–Sep 2025
Paid releases
+71%
698 vs 408, same months (of 760 and 482 in all)
Upcoming games
7,046
median 25 followers (7,028 with a count); their total followers +5% in 30 days, over 373 games read at both ends (the largest weigh most)
Top contributor to the growth: The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, 53,021 reviews in Jul–Sep 2026 against 11,525 a year earlier — 70% 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 7,345 paid Dark games whose review history we re-read on or after Oct 1, 2026, so their last complete month is whole; 0 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
Dark games that first went on sale each month (tracked Steam games).
Reviews written
Steam reviews posted each month on Dark'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 | 249 | 233 | not yet | 147,751 |
| Aug 2026 | 253 | 235 | not yet | 192,899 |
| Jul 2026 | 258 | 230 | not yet | 221,333 |
| Jun 2026 | 206 | 182 | ≈$632n=151 of 182 | 178,745 |
| May 2026 | 203 | 174 | ≈$1.1Kn=151 of 174 | 169,635 |
| Apr 2026 | 211 | 189 | ≈$1.1Kn=158 of 189 | 151,577 |
| Mar 2026 | 240 | 208 | ≈$1.2Kn=173 of 208 | 177,135 |
| Feb 2026 | 174 | 151 | ≈$1.4Kn=128 of 151 | 199,810 |
| Jan 2026 | 188 | 165 | ≈$996n=139 of 165 | 170,725 |
| Dec 2025 | 173 | 144 | ≈$909n=123 of 144 | 183,743 |
| Nov 2025 | 196 | 169 | ≈$889n=146 of 169 | 184,482 |
| Oct 2025 | 290 | 262 | ≈$986n=220 of 262 | 163,595 |
| Sep 2025 | 136 | 120 | ≈$893n=100 of 120 | 139,674 |
| Aug 2025 | 159 | 133 | ≈$1.7Kn=122 of 133 | 145,227 |
| Jul 2025 | 187 | 155 | ≈$931n=136 of 155 | 218,038 |
| Jun 2025 | 152 | 125 | ≈$723n=99 of 125 | 212,437 |
| May 2025 | 172 | 154 | ≈$1.1Kn=131 of 154 | 167,085 |
| Apr 2025 | 146 | 123 | ≈$1.5Kn=108 of 123 | 138,294 |
| Mar 2025 | 191 | 159 | ≈$1.2Kn=134 of 159 | 138,139 |
| Feb 2025 | 140 | 120 | ≈$876n=102 of 120 | 118,372 |
| Jan 2025 | 141 | 123 | ≈$1.4Kn=113 of 123 | 169,436 |
| Dec 2024 | 154 | 122 | ≈$598n=112 of 122 | 259,821 |
| Nov 2024 | 170 | 151 | ≈$746n=130 of 151 | 193,944 |
| Oct 2024 | 254 | 220 | ≈$1.1Kn=181 of 220 | 128,440 |