The niche at a glance
6DOF on Steam: 1,202 released games, 236 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Funny | 45 | 11 | 13 | 13.3% 6%–26% | 11.3% | ordinary ×0.85 | 677 d |    | |
| Dark Humor | 10 | 3 | 18 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.62 | 726 d |  | |
| Memes | 7 | 0 | 20 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.12 | 800 d | | |
| Music | 10 | 2 | 28 | under 20 | 7.8% | cliché ×2.87 | 721 d |  | |
| Violent | 11 | 5 | 3 | under 20 | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.80 | 94 d |  | |
| Emotional | 27 | 9 | 3 | 7.4% 2%–23% | 7.1% | ordinary ×1.23 | 721 d | | |
| Comedy | 35 | 7 | 12 | 5.7% 2%–19% | 6.1% | ordinary ×0.90 | 677 d |  | |
| Pixel Graphics | 21 | 6 | 5 | 4.8% 1%–23% | 5.7% | avoided ×0.24 | 982 d | | |
| Realistic | 113 | 28 | 11 | 5.3% 2%–11% | 5.5% | cliché ×2.88 | 215 d |   | |
| Surreal | 23 | 7 | 4 | 4.3% 1%–21% | 5.4% | ordinary ×1.40 | 800 d | | |
| First-Person | 189 | 52 | 7 | 5.3% 3%–9% | 5.4% | cliché ×2.87 | 94 d |  | |
| Cozy | 5 | 3 | 6 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×0.37 | never | ||
| Experimental | 5 | 2 | 19 | under 20 | 5.3% | cliché ×3.16 | never | ||
| Isometric | 5 | 2 | 9 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×0.50 | never | ||
| Side Scroller | 5 | 2 | 14 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×0.38 | 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.
