Steam tag trend
Singleplayer Steady
Releases, reviews written and modeled launch revenue for Singleplayer on Steam, month by month (85,332 games with an estimate carry the tag).
Reviews written
+6%
3,600,467 in Jul–Sep 2026 vs 3,383,701 in Jul–Sep 2025
Paid releases
+88%
5,804 vs 3,089, same months (of 6,381 and 3,608 in all)
Upcoming games
41,738
median 18 followers (41,649 with a count); their total followers +4% in 30 days, over 1,564 games read at both ends (the largest weigh most)
Top contributor to the growth: How to Fish, 64,663 reviews in Jul–Sep 2026 against 0 a year earlier — 30% 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 55,770 paid Singleplayer games whose review history we re-read on or after Oct 1, 2026, so their last complete month is whole; 10 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
Singleplayer games that first went on sale each month (tracked Steam games).
Reviews written
Steam reviews posted each month on Singleplayer'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 | 2,189 | 2,007 | not yet | 1,130,856 |
| Aug 2026 | 2,183 | 1,975 | not yet | 1,160,963 |
| Jul 2026 | 2,009 | 1,822 | not yet | 1,308,648 |
| Jun 2026 | 1,625 | 1,404 | ≈$597n=1,003 of 1,404 | 1,125,206 |
| May 2026 | 1,394 | 1,209 | ≈$885n=927 of 1,209 | 1,219,588 |
| Apr 2026 | 1,672 | 1,492 | ≈$1.4Kn=1,158 of 1,492 | 1,162,859 |
| Mar 2026 | 1,739 | 1,529 | ≈$909n=1,179 of 1,529 | 1,303,874 |
| Feb 2026 | 1,224 | 1,049 | ≈$823n=769 of 1,049 | 1,010,033 |
| Jan 2026 | 1,096 | 966 | ≈$1Kn=779 of 966 | 1,209,835 |
| Dec 2025 | 1,237 | 1,050 | ≈$700n=789 of 1,050 | 1,220,477 |
| Nov 2025 | 1,494 | 1,343 | ≈$1.4Kn=1,058 of 1,343 | 1,594,627 |
| Oct 2025 | 1,398 | 1,201 | ≈$1Kn=933 of 1,201 | 1,304,895 |
| Sep 2025 | 1,081 | 954 | ≈$1.4Kn=751 of 954 | 1,177,348 |
| Aug 2025 | 1,226 | 1,045 | ≈$1.3Kn=792 of 1,045 | 975,273 |
| Jul 2025 | 1,301 | 1,090 | ≈$899n=822 of 1,090 | 1,231,080 |
| Jun 2025 | 1,164 | 983 | ≈$760n=726 of 983 | 1,163,076 |
| May 2025 | 1,215 | 1,034 | ≈$1.4Kn=821 of 1,034 | 1,054,896 |
| Apr 2025 | 1,248 | 1,083 | ≈$1.1Kn=839 of 1,083 | 981,389 |
| Mar 2025 | 1,293 | 1,102 | ≈$950n=880 of 1,102 | 1,135,249 |
| Feb 2025 | 939 | 773 | ≈$814n=587 of 773 | 1,073,755 |
| Jan 2025 | 1,004 | 873 | ≈$963n=682 of 873 | 1,231,348 |
| Dec 2024 | 1,145 | 961 | ≈$898n=700 of 961 | 1,534,640 |
| Nov 2024 | 1,214 | 1,046 | ≈$985n=807 of 1,046 | 1,460,029 |
| Oct 2024 | 1,298 | 1,110 | ≈$1.1Kn=868 of 1,110 | 1,014,849 |