6DOF games on Steam
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6DOF on Steam: 1,202 released games, 237 in the last 12 months, 430 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 5. 65% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. 6DOF 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 included422 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews6DOF × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with 6DOF at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| 6DOF × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dystopian | 7 | 3 | 82 | under 20 | 12.3% | cliché ×1.66 | 726 d |   | |
| Zombies | 14 | 4 | 15 | under 20 | 9.8% | ordinary ×1.00 | 726 d | | |
| Cats | 6 | 1 | 2 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.44 | 677 d |  | |
| Music | 10 | 2 | 28 | under 20 | 7.8% | cliché ×2.87 | 721 d |  | |
| Military | 14 | 6 | 3 | under 20 | 6.9% | cliché ×1.51 | 94 d |  | |
| Historical | 16 | 2 | 8 | under 20 | 6.5% | cliché ×1.65 | 721 d | | |
| War | 16 | 5 | 4 | under 20 | 6.5% | ordinary ×1.11 | 94 d | | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 17 | 5 | 17 | under 20 | 6.3% | ordinary ×1.10 | 705 d |  | |
| Futuristic | 42 | 12 | 5 | 4.8% 1%–16% | 5.4% | cliché ×2.51 | 94 d | | |
| Alternate History | 5 | 2 | 2 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×1.21 | never | ||
| Crime | 5 | 1 | 2 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×1.10 | never | ||
| Mining | 5 | 3 | 6 | under 20 | 5.3% | cliché ×1.57 | never | ||
| Sailing | 5 | 1 | 4 | under 20 | 5.3% | cliché ×3.56 | never | ||
| Time Travel | 5 | 2 | 4 | under 20 | 5.3% | cliché ×2.49 | never | ||
| Underground | 5 | 3 | 7 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×1.43 | never |
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.
