4X games on Steam
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4X on Steam: 804 released games, 248 in the last 12 months, 367 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 15. 38% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. 4X 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 included274 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews4X × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with 4X at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| 4X × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historical | 65 | 31 | 225 | 43.1% 32%–55% | 34.5% | cliché ×8.03 | 152 d |    | |
| Alternate History | 29 | 15 | 286 | 41.4% 26%–59% | 27.2% | cliché ×6.62 | 194 d |   | |
| Military | 60 | 27 | 84 | 25.0% 16%–37% | 20.4% | cliché ×8.96 | 166 d |   | |
| Fantasy | 41 | 8 | 36 | 24.4% 14%–39% | 18.6% | ordinary ×1.14 | 152 d |    | |
| War | 80 | 31 | 27 | 21.3% 14%–31% | 18.3% | cliché ×11.52 | 166 d | | |
| Female Protagonist | 5 | 2 | 629 | under 20 | 17.3% | avoided ×0.14 | 152 d |   | |
| Mythology | 6 | 2 | 145 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×1.68 | 264 d |   | |
| Sci-fi | 58 | 26 | 21 | 19.0% 11%–31% | 15.8% | cliché ×2.82 | 194 d |   | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 5 | 2 | 387 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×1.03 | 704 d |   | |
| Space | 50 | 19 | 21 | 14.0% 7%–26% | 11.9% | cliché ×5.51 | 267 d |   | |
| Magic | 13 | 2 | 22 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×1.02 | 876 d | | |
| Futuristic | 25 | 10 | 21 | 12.0% 4%–30% | 9.6% | cliché ×2.34 | 267 d |   | |
| Farming Sim | 5 | 1 | 11 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.68 | 200 d |  | |
| Horror | 5 | 1 | 10 | under 20 | 9.3% | avoided ×0.09 | 704 d | | |
| Capitalism | 17 | 6 | 14 | under 20 | 9.0% | cliché ×2.69 | 313 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.
