The niche at a glance
2D on Steam: 51,750 released games, 13,293 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 × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open World Survival Craft | 46 | 15 | 54 | 26.1% 16%–40% | 20.2% | ordinary ×0.47 | 157 d |    | |
| Organizing | 34 | 23 | 51 | 26.5% 15%–43% | 19.1% | ordinary ×0.53 | 100 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 195 | 62 | 29 | 17.4% 13%–23% | 16.4% | ordinary ×1.05 | 91 d |    | |
| Roguelike Deckbuilder | 419 | 173 | 35 | 15.0% 12%–19% | 14.7% | cliché ×1.76 | 90 d |    | |
| Turn-Based | 311 | 113 | 39 | 15.1% 12%–20% | 14.6% | ordinary ×1.22 | 91 d |   | |
| Decorating | 31 | 25 | 80 | 19.4% 9%–36% | 14.4% | ordinary ×0.85 | 128 d |    | |
| Bullet Heaven | 246 | 132 | 27 | 14.2% 10%–19% | 13.7% | cliché ×1.55 | 105 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 |    | |
| Colony Sim | 201 | 90 | 17 | 12.9% 9%–18% | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.00 | 100 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 |    | |
| Auto Battler | 661 | 296 | 18 | 11.5% 9%–14% | 11.4% | cliché ×1.67 | 90 d |  | |
| Souls-like | 364 | 118 | 16 | 11.5% 9%–15% | 11.3% | ordinary ×0.95 | 99 d |   | |
| Loot | 583 | 275 | 17 | 11.3% 9%–14% | 11.2% | ordinary ×1.12 | 93 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.
