How big is the Turn-based tactics market on Steam?

A typical Turn-based tactics game sells 18k to 30k copies, and the top decile 942k to 1.5M, based on the 91 games SteamSpy lists for the tag (its visible subset). Labeled estimates from review counts, not exact sales.

What Turn-based tactics games usually sell on Steam

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

The whole genre, from SteamSpy's sample

A typical game sells

≈ 18k–30k copies

$75k–$202k after Steam's cut, est.

The top decile

≈ 942k–1.5M copies

$3.9M–$10.4M after Steam's cut, est.

Half the reviews in SteamSpy's sample of 91 Turn-based tactics games sit with 10 of them.

Based on the 91 Turn-based tactics 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 Turn-based tactics games gathered on wishvane

Across the 688 Turn-based tactics games compared here, a typical one sells ≈ 43k–47k copies (est.), with the biggest of them, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, at ≈ 1.2M–2.0M. 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 Turn-based tactics games gathered here span 2013 to 2026, and 191 of them shipped in the last two years.
The biggest Turn-based tactics games here share nothing more specific than the genre; individually they lead with Tactical RPG and Turn-Based Strategy.
Across the Turn-based tactics games gathered here a typical price is $12.99, and the biggest charge more, around $25.

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