ResidualPlaybetaStudy your niche
What does your genre actually earn?
Before you spend two years building it, see what games in that corner of Steam make today. Every tracked title released in the period, the failures included: no survey, no survivor bias, no self-reported numbers.
$390 per month is what the median Adventure game released 2022–2026 earns today, net to the developer, across 3426 tracked titles.
Only 801 of them (23.4%) clear $2,000/month, roughly one salary before tax. The bottom tenth makes $50; the top tenth $7.9k.
Where the money actually lands
The typical game here
Your actual competition
The games sitting at the median of this niche: this is the company you would be keeping.
| Game | Developer | Year | Price | Net/month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whisker Wanderlust: Unwritten Chapter | MEOW STORE GAME | 2026 | $5 | $390 |
| Everfall 2: Idle Dungeon RPG | GameDevJoey | 2026 | $10 | $390 |
| Lavender Quartz 境界秤動 | Edanoue, Inc. | 2025 | $12 | $392 |
| 九州风流 | GB | 2022 | $18 | $387 |
| NebuLeet | quasilyte | 2025 | $16 | $386 |
| Creepy Tale 3: Ingrid Penance | Creepy Brothers | 2023 | $10 | $386 |
Top of the genre
Context, not competition.
| Game | Developer | Year | Price | Net/month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Big Walk | House House | 2026 | $20 | $3.2M |
| Baldur's Gate 3 | Larian Studios | 2023 | $60 | $1.5M |
| Road to Empress Ⅱ | New One Studio | 2026 | $18 | $687.3k |
| Satisfactory | Coffee Stain Studios | 2024 | $40 | $597.9k |
| Mewgenics | Edmund McMillen | 2026 | $30 | $495.7k |
| The Incident at Galley House | William Rous | 2026 | $20 | $473.1k |
| The Mermaid Mask | SFB Games | 2026 | $20 | $345.2k |
| Servant of the Lake | Rusty Lake | 2026 | $8 | $339.3k |
| SpaceCraft | Shiro Games | 2026 | $30 | $299.6k |
| Persona 3 Reload | ATLUS | 2024 | $60 | $282.9k |
Per-title estimates carry a 30–50% error range and are much tighter in aggregate, which is why the distribution is the useful part, not any single row.
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