How big is the Platformer market on Steam?

A typical Platformer game sells 119k to 193k copies, and the top decile 1.5M to 2.5M, based on the 223 games SteamSpy lists for the tag (its visible subset). Labeled estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

What Platformer games usually sell on Steam

What Platformer games sell on Steam, shown two ways: a SteamSpy sample of the whole genre, and the Platformer games people have looked up here.

The whole genre, from SteamSpy's sample

A typical game sells

≈ 119k–193k copies

$326k–$877k after Steam's cut, est.

The top decile

≈ 1.5M–2.5M copies

$4.2M–$11.4M after Steam's cut, est.

Half the reviews in SteamSpy's sample of 223 Platformer games sit with 8 of them.

Based on the 223 Platformer games SteamSpy listed on November 15, 2026. It misses the games that barely sold, so these figures flatter the genre. Games are grouped by the tags players give them, which are applied loosely, so a genre's edges are fuzzy. Copies are SteamSpy estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

The Platformer games gathered on wishvane

Across the 1343 Platformer games compared here, a typical one sells ≈ 33k–62k copies (est.), with the biggest of them, Hollow Knight, at ≈ 19.5M–31.6M. These are the games people chose to compare, not a sample of the genre, so they run far larger than SteamSpy's figures above.

The Platformer games gathered here span 2006 to 2026, and 279 of them shipped in the last two years.
The biggest Platformer games here share nothing more specific than the genre; individually they lead with Metroidvania and Side Scroller.
Across the Platformer games gathered here a typical price is $9.99, and the biggest charge more, around $15.

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