Steam tag trend
Exploration Steady
Releases, reviews written and modeled launch revenue for Exploration on Steam, month by month (22,016 games with an estimate carry the tag).
Reviews written
−10%
1,324,717 in Jul–Sep 2026 vs 1,471,829 in Jul–Sep 2025
Paid releases
+58%
1,435 vs 908, same months (of 1,606 and 1,074 in all)
Upcoming games
16,220
median 29 followers (16,176 with a count); their total followers +5% in 30 days, over 899 games read at both ends (the largest weigh most)
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 15,700 paid Exploration games whose review history we re-read on or after Oct 1, 2026, so their last complete month is whole; 5 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
Exploration games that first went on sale each month (tracked Steam games).
Reviews written
Steam reviews posted each month on Exploration'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 | 599 | 536 | not yet | 387,679 |
| Aug 2026 | 527 | 476 | not yet | 446,186 |
| Jul 2026 | 480 | 423 | not yet | 490,852 |
| Jun 2026 | 386 | 324 | ≈$1.1Kn=268 of 324 | 453,402 |
| May 2026 | 435 | 369 | ≈$1.7Kn=305 of 369 | 579,221 |
| Apr 2026 | 455 | 411 | ≈$2.3Kn=331 of 411 | 438,740 |
| Mar 2026 | 465 | 412 | ≈$1.5Kn=357 of 412 | 468,272 |
| Feb 2026 | 322 | 276 | ≈$894n=224 of 276 | 370,759 |
| Jan 2026 | 338 | 304 | ≈$1.2Kn=264 of 304 | 482,519 |
| Dec 2025 | 337 | 282 | ≈$866n=221 of 282 | 482,711 |
| Nov 2025 | 467 | 427 | ≈$1.8Kn=357 of 427 | 715,153 |
| Oct 2025 | 454 | 404 | ≈$1.3Kn=338 of 404 | 483,731 |
| Sep 2025 | 319 | 280 | ≈$1.7Kn=227 of 280 | 611,587 |
| Aug 2025 | 336 | 279 | ≈$2.4Kn=238 of 279 | 380,064 |
| Jul 2025 | 419 | 349 | ≈$1.1Kn=287 of 349 | 480,178 |
| Jun 2025 | 334 | 275 | ≈$1.1Kn=213 of 275 | 420,549 |
| May 2025 | 353 | 304 | ≈$2.1Kn=268 of 304 | 415,865 |
| Apr 2025 | 358 | 311 | ≈$2.4Kn=265 of 311 | 426,191 |
| Mar 2025 | 367 | 321 | ≈$1.3Kn=273 of 321 | 426,086 |
| Feb 2025 | 259 | 224 | ≈$969n=188 of 224 | 322,504 |
| Jan 2025 | 277 | 251 | ≈$2.1Kn=222 of 251 | 413,063 |
| Dec 2024 | 335 | 274 | ≈$1.1Kn=229 of 274 | 509,679 |
| Nov 2024 | 358 | 306 | ≈$1.5Kn=252 of 306 | 530,721 |
| Oct 2024 | 423 | 355 | ≈$1.5Kn=278 of 355 | 311,919 |