Steam tag trend
Mystery Steady
Releases, reviews written and modeled launch revenue for Mystery on Steam, month by month (10,444 games with an estimate carry the tag).
Reviews written
+24%
428,143 in Jul–Sep 2026 vs 344,204 in Jul–Sep 2025
Paid releases
+63%
716 vs 438, same months (of 780 and 508 in all)
Upcoming games
6,819
median 26 followers (6,799 with a count); their total followers +3% in 30 days, over 302 games read at both ends (the largest weigh most)
Top contributor to the growth: MECCHA CHAMELEON, 44,083 reviews in Jul–Sep 2026 against 0 a year earlier — 53% 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 7,603 paid Mystery games whose review history we re-read on or after Oct 1, 2026, so their last complete month is whole; 1 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
Mystery games that first went on sale each month (tracked Steam games).
Reviews written
Steam reviews posted each month on Mystery'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 | 267 | 246 | not yet | 116,267 |
| Aug 2026 | 270 | 251 | not yet | 154,592 |
| Jul 2026 | 243 | 219 | not yet | 157,284 |
| Jun 2026 | 180 | 161 | ≈$558n=130 of 161 | 127,695 |
| May 2026 | 184 | 165 | ≈$868n=140 of 165 | 82,827 |
| Apr 2026 | 208 | 189 | ≈$1.9Kn=165 of 189 | 89,834 |
| Mar 2026 | 211 | 188 | ≈$1.3Kn=159 of 188 | 91,934 |
| Feb 2026 | 147 | 133 | ≈$1.1Kn=111 of 133 | 87,078 |
| Jan 2026 | 187 | 168 | ≈$1.4Kn=148 of 168 | 109,991 |
| Dec 2025 | 171 | 137 | ≈$728n=115 of 137 | 105,984 |
| Nov 2025 | 218 | 198 | ≈$816n=179 of 198 | 164,415 |
| Oct 2025 | 265 | 233 | ≈$668n=208 of 233 | 91,820 |
| Sep 2025 | 154 | 137 | ≈$1.2Kn=120 of 137 | 89,498 |
| Aug 2025 | 172 | 149 | ≈$882n=121 of 149 | 120,589 |
| Jul 2025 | 182 | 152 | ≈$725n=123 of 152 | 134,117 |
| Jun 2025 | 145 | 130 | ≈$896n=103 of 130 | 181,822 |
| May 2025 | 165 | 154 | ≈$1.2Kn=134 of 154 | 61,641 |
| Apr 2025 | 168 | 148 | ≈$1.1Kn=118 of 148 | 62,363 |
| Mar 2025 | 169 | 150 | ≈$1.3Kn=128 of 150 | 79,919 |
| Feb 2025 | 135 | 120 | ≈$866n=101 of 120 | 76,674 |
| Jan 2025 | 135 | 117 | ≈$1.7Kn=103 of 117 | 88,503 |
| Dec 2024 | 165 | 133 | ≈$1.1Kn=115 of 133 | 102,461 |
| Nov 2024 | 165 | 143 | ≈$1.1Kn=126 of 143 | 100,325 |
| Oct 2024 | 219 | 195 | ≈$1.4Kn=166 of 195 | 67,303 |