Steam tag trend
RPG Steady
Releases, reviews written and modeled launch revenue for RPG on Steam, month by month (26,205 games with an estimate carry the tag).
Reviews written
+4%
1,496,012 in Jul–Sep 2026 vs 1,440,414 in Jul–Sep 2025
Paid releases
+65%
1,344 vs 813, same months (of 1,561 and 973 in all)
Upcoming games
14,795
median 31 followers (14,746 with a count); their total followers +5% in 30 days, over 865 games read at both ends (the largest weigh most)
Top contributor to the growth: Palworld, 57,605 reviews in Jul–Sep 2026 against 10,375 a year earlier — 85% 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 17,031 paid RPG 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
RPG games that first went on sale each month (tracked Steam games).
Reviews written
Steam reviews posted each month on RPG'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 | 525 | 457 | not yet | 490,629 |
| Aug 2026 | 574 | 498 | not yet | 477,307 |
| Jul 2026 | 462 | 389 | not yet | 528,076 |
| Jun 2026 | 378 | 332 | ≈$1.7Kn=245 of 332 | 451,328 |
| May 2026 | 349 | 299 | ≈$3.4Kn=245 of 299 | 445,596 |
| Apr 2026 | 437 | 388 | ≈$2.4Kn=316 of 388 | 438,753 |
| Mar 2026 | 453 | 395 | ≈$2Kn=319 of 395 | 498,952 |
| Feb 2026 | 324 | 282 | ≈$1.9Kn=213 of 282 | 438,375 |
| Jan 2026 | 280 | 243 | ≈$2.9Kn=207 of 243 | 498,002 |
| Dec 2025 | 297 | 258 | ≈$1.6Kn=190 of 258 | 509,578 |
| Nov 2025 | 392 | 340 | ≈$4.7Kn=274 of 340 | 645,978 |
| Oct 2025 | 350 | 307 | ≈$2.6Kn=246 of 307 | 496,707 |
| Sep 2025 | 317 | 272 | ≈$6.8Kn=218 of 272 | 445,076 |
| Aug 2025 | 331 | 276 | ≈$4.4Kn=230 of 276 | 426,435 |
| Jul 2025 | 325 | 265 | ≈$1.7Kn=216 of 265 | 568,903 |
| Jun 2025 | 316 | 256 | ≈$2.4Kn=201 of 256 | 634,838 |
| May 2025 | 311 | 270 | ≈$5.4Kn=234 of 270 | 521,256 |
| Apr 2025 | 333 | 284 | ≈$3.6Kn=240 of 284 | 468,159 |
| Mar 2025 | 341 | 282 | ≈$1.6Kn=240 of 282 | 518,755 |
| Feb 2025 | 271 | 236 | ≈$2.7Kn=186 of 236 | 537,586 |
| Jan 2025 | 296 | 263 | ≈$2.7Kn=213 of 263 | 575,523 |
| Dec 2024 | 278 | 213 | ≈$3.1Kn=166 of 213 | 716,826 |
| Nov 2024 | 310 | 254 | ≈$2.7Kn=215 of 254 | 651,136 |
| Oct 2024 | 315 | 262 | ≈$2.4Kn=209 of 262 | 425,470 |