Steam tag trend
Shooter Steady
Releases, reviews written and modeled launch revenue for Shooter on Steam, month by month (13,216 games with an estimate carry the tag).
Reviews written
+24%
1,069,690 in Jul–Sep 2026 vs 864,848 in Jul–Sep 2025
Paid releases
+65%
670 vs 406, same months (of 768 and 502 in all)
Upcoming games
6,627
median 24 followers (6,603 with a count); their total followers +3% in 30 days, over 256 games read at both ends (the largest weigh most)
Top contributor to the growth: WARDOGS, 88,285 reviews in Jul–Sep 2026 against 0 a year earlier — 43% 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 8,630 paid Shooter 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
Shooter games that first went on sale each month (tracked Steam games).
Reviews written
Steam reviews posted each month on Shooter'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 | 253 | 222 | not yet | 387,748 |
| Aug 2026 | 265 | 234 | not yet | 341,142 |
| Jul 2026 | 250 | 214 | not yet | 340,800 |
| Jun 2026 | 202 | 179 | ≈$284n=127 of 179 | 296,808 |
| May 2026 | 156 | 121 | ≈$2Kn=90 of 121 | 296,947 |
| Apr 2026 | 193 | 167 | ≈$849n=128 of 167 | 327,631 |
| Mar 2026 | 223 | 192 | ≈$760n=149 of 192 | 377,263 |
| Feb 2026 | 161 | 136 | ≈$802n=100 of 136 | 298,848 |
| Jan 2026 | 142 | 123 | ≈$1.2Kn=94 of 123 | 377,225 |
| Dec 2025 | 165 | 141 | ≈$601n=109 of 141 | 384,088 |
| Nov 2025 | 201 | 181 | ≈$1.6Kn=134 of 181 | 557,442 |
| Oct 2025 | 209 | 173 | ≈$936n=128 of 173 | 522,313 |
| Sep 2025 | 163 | 142 | ≈$1.7Kn=105 of 142 | 241,083 |
| Aug 2025 | 158 | 125 | ≈$1.8Kn=94 of 125 | 282,475 |
| Jul 2025 | 181 | 139 | ≈$814n=96 of 139 | 341,290 |
| Jun 2025 | 182 | 150 | ≈$679n=118 of 150 | 308,960 |
| May 2025 | 167 | 134 | ≈$1.4Kn=104 of 134 | 307,200 |
| Apr 2025 | 179 | 143 | ≈$1.2Kn=98 of 143 | 325,020 |
| Mar 2025 | 203 | 166 | ≈$785n=130 of 166 | 394,224 |
| Feb 2025 | 151 | 122 | ≈$678n=82 of 122 | 259,469 |
| Jan 2025 | 151 | 132 | ≈$604n=99 of 132 | 319,416 |
| Dec 2024 | 185 | 156 | ≈$585n=108 of 156 | 383,587 |
| Nov 2024 | 185 | 160 | ≈$723n=113 of 160 | 393,594 |
| Oct 2024 | 185 | 154 | ≈$1.3Kn=118 of 154 | 244,824 |