For indie devs deciding what to build next

Don't build for two years and hope someone wants it.

Pick a Steam tag combination. Get back real ownership estimates, top performers, competition density and an honest verdict on whether the niche is worth your next two years.

Cozy

Saturated
21% of games here clear 20,000 owners (100 sampled) ยท top game Tiny Glade sits in the 500k-1m band
Cozy on Steam: 4,248 released, 906 upcoming
Best pocket: Cozy + Puzzle - 27% reach 10+ reviews (100 sampled), 1,454 released, 266 upcoming
Measured 27 Aug 2026, 01:00 UTC () in the overnight scheduled run
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1,400
indie releases on Steam in August+93% year on year
18
genres measured every nighttop 20 in each
139
Steam tags to combineplus all of Steam's vocabulary in search

Tag-precision search

Combine 2-5 Steam tags (roguelike + deckbuilder + cozy). We intersect them across the catalog to find your actual competition.

Market size, not vibes

Median owners, total reviews, top performers from the 60 most-reviewed ranked by visibility. Numbers - not hype - to anchor the decision.

Honest verdict

Healthy / Viable / Crowded / Too niche. Two sentences explaining what to do next, not a wall of charts.

Launching soon? See exactly who you are up against.

Pick your tags and a target week. We show every upcoming Steam game that has publicly planned a date in that window, which of them Steam already ranks high in popular upcoming - the ones that will take the visibility - plus AAA releases and Steam sale events landing the same week.

Cozy + Roguelike, for example: every upcoming game with a planned date in your window, which of them Steam already ranks high in popular upcoming, plus AAA releases and sales landing the same week.

Check a launch window

A dated market report every month, written from the nightly measurements.

August 2026 so far: 1,400 indie games released on Steam, up 93% year on year. Which genres are filling up, where supply moved fastest and which pockets flipped direction - each month keeps its own permanent URL and stops changing once it closes.

Read the August 2026 report

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What this is not

  • - Not a guarantee of success. Estimates have error bars. A healthy niche still needs a great game.
  • - Not a replacement for playtesting or wishlist tracking. Those come later.
  • - Not coverage of itch.io, mobile or console. Steam only - that's where most indie sales happen.
Built for indie devs. Data via SteamSpy and the Steam Store API.