1980s games on Steam
The niche at a glance
1980s on Steam: 4,206 released games, 1,209 in the last 12 months, 1,395 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 included1,905 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews1980s × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Realistic | 180 | 60 | 30 | 15.6% 11%–22% | 14.7% | ordinary ×1.12 | 118 d |    | |
| Narrative | 12 | 6 | 76 | under 20 | 13.5% | ordinary ×1.04 | 159 d |    | |
| Nostalgia | 28 | 11 | 13 | 17.9% 8%–36% | 13.2% | cliché ×6.69 | 327 d |    | |
| Lore-Rich | 51 | 11 | 27 | 15.7% 8%–28% | 13.1% | ordinary ×0.98 | 165 d | ![[Nightmare Files] Clap Clap](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/2933290/2dec1b7446f60e051cb398338eeac13a6498cf5e/capsule_231x87.jpg){kind=small}  | |
| Violent | 74 | 29 | 21 | 13.5% 8%–23% | 12.1% | ordinary ×0.97 | 159 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 266 | 78 | 13 | 11.3% 8%–16% | 11.0% | ordinary ×0.89 | 159 d | | |
| Thriller | 84 | 25 | 23 | 11.9% 7%–21% | 10.9% | cliché ×1.73 | 165 d |   | |
| Cinematic | 85 | 28 | 16 | 10.6% 6%–19% | 9.8% | cliché ×1.62 | 182 d |  | |
| Gore | 76 | 28 | 16 | 10.5% 5%–19% | 9.7% | ordinary ×1.01 | 159 d |  | |
| First-Person | 308 | 103 | 22 | 9.7% 7%–14% | 9.6% | ordinary ×1.11 | 118 d |  | |
| Third Person | 122 | 34 | 7 | 9.8% 6%–16% | 9.4% | ordinary ×0.71 | 159 d | | |
| Dark | 208 | 69 | 14 | 9.6% 6%–14% | 9.4% | ordinary ×1.33 | 120 d |  | |
| Horror | 306 | 96 | 17 | 9.2% 6%–13% | 9.0% | ordinary ×1.41 | 120 d |   | |
| Parody | 6 | 1 | 30 | under 20 | 9.0% | cliché ×1.53 | 545 d |  | |
| Music | 20 | 9 | 17 | 10.0% 3%–30% | 8.3% | cliché ×1.67 | 159 d |  |
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.
