Steam tag trend
Strategy Steady
Releases, reviews written and modeled launch revenue for Strategy on Steam, month by month (28,814 games with an estimate carry the tag).
Reviews written
+23%
1,014,299 in Jul–Sep 2026 vs 827,245 in Jul–Sep 2025
Paid releases
+120%
2,186 vs 994, same months (of 2,440 and 1,163 in all)
Upcoming games
16,189
median 16 followers (16,142 with a count); their total followers +5% in 30 days, over 770 games read at both ends (the largest weigh most)
Top contributor to the growth: Hearts of Iron IV, 47,995 reviews in Jul–Sep 2026 against 7,690 a year earlier — 22% 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 19,578 paid Strategy games whose review history we re-read on or after Oct 1, 2026, so their last complete month is whole; 4 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
Strategy games that first went on sale each month (tracked Steam games).
Reviews written
Steam reviews posted each month on Strategy'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 | 837 | 761 | not yet | 376,109 |
| Aug 2026 | 828 | 735 | not yet | 318,343 |
| Jul 2026 | 775 | 690 | not yet | 319,847 |
| Jun 2026 | 522 | 457 | ≈$1.1Kn=334 of 457 | 283,114 |
| May 2026 | 480 | 416 | ≈$1.4Kn=312 of 416 | 326,669 |
| Apr 2026 | 585 | 526 | ≈$2.2Kn=407 of 526 | 385,811 |
| Mar 2026 | 591 | 526 | ≈$1.4Kn=403 of 526 | 409,646 |
| Feb 2026 | 377 | 323 | ≈$1.4Kn=244 of 323 | 298,629 |
| Jan 2026 | 353 | 301 | ≈$1.4Kn=250 of 301 | 333,408 |
| Dec 2025 | 363 | 317 | ≈$728n=240 of 317 | 348,376 |
| Nov 2025 | 470 | 417 | ≈$2.3Kn=332 of 417 | 494,826 |
| Oct 2025 | 391 | 331 | ≈$1.6Kn=248 of 331 | 290,204 |
| Sep 2025 | 349 | 298 | ≈$2.5Kn=244 of 298 | 235,493 |
| Aug 2025 | 395 | 336 | ≈$2Kn=262 of 336 | 262,689 |
| Jul 2025 | 419 | 360 | ≈$1.4Kn=276 of 360 | 329,063 |
| Jun 2025 | 379 | 329 | ≈$1.3Kn=251 of 329 | 325,595 |
| May 2025 | 367 | 319 | ≈$2.8Kn=237 of 319 | 284,147 |
| Apr 2025 | 433 | 378 | ≈$2.1Kn=291 of 378 | 357,475 |
| Mar 2025 | 419 | 358 | ≈$1.4Kn=277 of 358 | 347,194 |
| Feb 2025 | 269 | 220 | ≈$1.8Kn=165 of 220 | 258,471 |
| Jan 2025 | 280 | 236 | ≈$1.6Kn=186 of 236 | 304,977 |
| Dec 2024 | 322 | 258 | ≈$1.1Kn=191 of 258 | 376,921 |
| Nov 2024 | 403 | 334 | ≈$2.1Kn=249 of 334 | 435,423 |
| Oct 2024 | 353 | 314 | ≈$1.2Kn=249 of 314 | 275,213 |