1980s games on Steam
The niche at a glance
1980s on Steam: 4,210 released games, 1,212 in the last 12 months, 1,400 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 6. 58% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. 1980s is a Steam store tag, applied by the developer and refined by players; a game carries several tags at once, so niche counts overlap and do not add up to the size of the Steam catalogue. Data as of .
What releases end up with
lifetime reviews · released 3 years ago to 90 days ago · failures included1,906 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews1980s × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with 1980s at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| 1980s × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driving | 59 | 19 | 16 | 20.3% 12%–32% | 16.9% | cliché ×2.21 | 120 d |    | |
| Sports | 89 | 32 | 13 | 15.7% 10%–25% | 14.1% | ordinary ×1.32 | 159 d |    | |
| Political Sim | 5 | 2 | 107 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×1.04 | 159 d |   | |
| Automobile Sim | 36 | 12 | 13 | 16.7% 8%–32% | 13.1% | cliché ×2.06 | 159 d |    | |
| Turn-Based | 6 | 3 | 15 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.37 | 348 d |   | |
| Racing | 92 | 30 | 12 | 14.1% 8%–23% | 12.8% | cliché ×1.81 | 159 d | | |
| Character Customization | 69 | 22 | 15 | 14.5% 8%–25% | 12.7% | ordinary ×0.62 | 215 d |    | |
| FPS | 87 | 23 | 22 | 13.8% 8%–23% | 12.5% | ordinary ×0.94 | 173 d |    | |
| Base Building | 16 | 5 | 14 | under 20 | 12.0% | avoided ×0.30 | 180 d |   | |
| Stealth | 54 | 13 | 16 | 13.0% 6%–24% | 11.3% | ordinary ×1.17 | 424 d |   | |
| City Builder | 10 | 2 | 14 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.38 | 180 d | | |
| Economy | 29 | 16 | 39 | 13.8% 5%–31% | 10.9% | ordinary ×0.57 | 271 d |  | |
| Building | 30 | 12 | 13 | 13.3% 5%–30% | 10.7% | ordinary ×0.41 | 180 d |  | |
| Third-Person Shooter | 31 | 8 | 5 | 12.9% 5%–29% | 10.5% | ordinary ×0.83 | 614 d |   | |
| Walking Simulator | 98 | 36 | 21 | 11.2% 6%–19% | 10.5% | ordinary ×1.19 | 118 d | ![[Nightmare Files] Clap Clap](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/2933290/2dec1b7446f60e051cb398338eeac13a6498cf5e/capsule_231x87.jpg){kind=small}  |
About these numbers
“Adjusted” is the share pulled towards the catalogue with the weight of twenty releases: the top of any ranked list is optimistic (out of a hundred pairings one will show 35 % on 23 releases by luck alone), and the adjustment is what stops a small lucky group from leading. The band next to the raw share is the 95 % interval. This list is the same for everyone today; the second opinion is the description-based one on Pitch comps.
