2D Platformer games on Steam
The niche at a glance
2D Platformer on Steam: 11,844 released games, 2,638 in the last 12 months, 4,891 announced and still unreleased. Of the 5,859 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 5 lifetime reviews. 59% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. 2D Platformer 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 included5,859 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2D Platformer × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with 2D Platformer at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| 2D Platformer × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shop Keeper | 8 | 8 | 8 | under 20 | 11.9% | avoided ×0.23 | 181 d |   | |
| Villain Protagonist | 9 | 3 | 28 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.57 | 439 d |   | |
| Martial Arts | 67 | 16 | 13 | 11.9% 6%–22% | 10.7% | cliché ×1.65 | 167 d |    | |
| Tanks | 23 | 6 | 3 | 13.0% 5%–32% | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.64 | 528 d |    | |
| Heist | 5 | 1 | 12 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.45 | 788 d | | |
| Wuxia | 5 | 5 | 183 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×1.21 | 167 d |  | |
| Dating Sim | 246 | 91 | 19 | 8.9% 6%–13% | 8.8% | ordinary ×0.99 | 104 d |    | |
| Birds | 7 | 1 | 20 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.13 | 645 d |  | |
| Medical Sim | 7 | 3 | 12 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×0.44 | 607 d |  | |
| LGBTQ+ | 117 | 50 | 16 | 8.5% 5%–15% | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.68 | 257 d |    | |
| Mechs | 45 | 18 | 6 | 8.9% 4%–21% | 8.2% | ordinary ×1.14 | 528 d |  | |
| Science | 35 | 8 | 3 | 8.6% 3%–22% | 7.9% | ordinary ×0.74 | 153 d |    | |
| World War II | 11 | 3 | 2 | under 20 | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.51 | 824 d | | |
| Modern | 79 | 23 | 8 | 7.6% 4%–16% | 7.4% | ordinary ×0.90 | 215 d |    | |
| Otome | 25 | 14 | 8 | 8.0% 2%–25% | 7.4% | ordinary ×0.87 | 643 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.
