The niche at a glance
2D on Steam: 51,744 released games, 13,287 in the last 12 months, 24,060 announced and still unreleased. Of the 24,591 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 8 lifetime reviews. 52% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. 2D 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 included24,591 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2D × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with 2D at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| 2D × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wuxia | 36 | 28 | 237 | 38.9% 25%–55% | 27.4% | ordinary ×1.28 | 91 d |    | |
| Villain Protagonist | 36 | 8 | 33 | 25.0% 14%–41% | 18.4% | ordinary ×0.88 | 399 d |    | |
| World War I | 30 | 9 | 38 | 23.3% 12%–41% | 16.6% | ordinary ×0.82 | 100 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 195 | 62 | 29 | 17.4% 13%–23% | 16.4% | ordinary ×1.05 | 91 d |  | |
| Xianxia | 32 | 26 | 62 | 21.9% 11%–39% | 16.0% | cliché ×1.62 | 114 d |   | |
| Decorating | 31 | 25 | 80 | 19.4% 9%–36% | 14.4% | ordinary ×0.85 | 128 d |    | |
| Mechs | 122 | 42 | 18 | 14.8% 10%–22% | 13.6% | ordinary ×0.78 | 352 d |    | |
| Cleaning | 14 | 11 | 22 | under 20 | 12.7% | avoided ×0.34 | 128 d |    | |
| Baseball | 39 | 16 | 9 | 15.4% 7%–30% | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.05 | 230 d |   | |
| Capybaras | 15 | 6 | 97 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.15 | 174 d |    | |
| Trains | 76 | 30 | 18 | 13.2% 7%–23% | 11.8% | ordinary ×0.71 | 416 d |    | |
| Mining | 274 | 141 | 15 | 12.0% 9%–16% | 11.7% | ordinary ×1.24 | 105 d |    | |
| Job Simulator | 100 | 57 | 24 | 12.0% 7%–20% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.63 | 94 d |    | |
| World War II | 69 | 18 | 14 | 11.6% 6%–21% | 10.5% | ordinary ×0.65 | 197 d |   | |
| Psychological Horror | 1155 | 399 | 24 | 10.4% 9%–12% | 10.3% | ordinary ×0.61 | 92 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.
