2D Fighter games on Steam
The niche at a glance
2D Fighter on Steam: 2,268 released games, 629 in the last 12 months, 873 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 4. 62% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. 2D Fighter 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 included989 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2D Fighter × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with 2D Fighter at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| 2D Fighter × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gore | 15 | 9 | 9 | under 20 | 15.2% | ordinary ×0.83 | 92 d |    | |
| Anime | 115 | 19 | 14 | 9.6% 5%–16% | 9.1% | ordinary ×1.46 | 151 d |    | |
| Dark Humor | 20 | 2 | 10 | 10.0% 3%–30% | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.90 | 349 d |   | |
| Difficult | 21 | 8 | 4 | 9.5% 3%–29% | 8.1% | ordinary ×0.82 | 744 d |   | |
| 3D | 59 | 20 | 6 | 8.5% 4%–18% | 8.0% | avoided ×0.21 | 166 d |   | |
| Comic Book | 56 | 11 | 11 | 7.1% 3%–17% | 7.0% | cliché ×3.00 | 166 d |   | |
| Story Rich | 101 | 31 | 10 | 6.9% 3%–14% | 6.9% | ordinary ×0.58 | 166 d |  | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 14 | 5 | 2 | under 20 | 6.9% | ordinary ×0.53 | 993 d | | |
| Fast-Paced | 17 | 5 | 5 | under 20 | 6.3% | cliché ×1.74 | 720 d |  | |
| Realistic | 18 | 8 | 5 | under 20 | 6.1% | avoided ×0.23 | 349 d | | |
| Comedy | 70 | 20 | 10 | 5.7% 2%–14% | 5.9% | ordinary ×1.30 | 92 d |   | |
| Funny | 138 | 52 | 6 | 5.8% 3%–11% | 5.9% | cliché ×1.58 | 92 d |  | |
| Cartoon | 92 | 22 | 4 | 5.4% 2%–12% | 5.7% | cliché ×2.31 | 452 d |  | |
| Cartoony | 133 | 34 | 8 | 5.3% 3%–10% | 5.4% | cliché ×1.91 | 264 d |  | |
| Dark | 42 | 17 | 6 | 4.8% 1%–16% | 5.4% | ordinary ×0.66 | 151 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.
