The niche at a glance

ATV on Steam: 67 released games, 20 in the last 12 months, 30 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 8. 55% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 5%. ATV 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 included29 releases
p100
p251
median8
p7530
p90162
55% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $9.99 · 5% free-to-play

Releases per year

outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews
2020
5med 7 · 60% unseen
2021
11med 17 · 27% unseen
2022
5med 43 · 0% unseen
2023
6med 16 · 33% unseen
2024
9med 14 · 44% unseen
2025
9med 8 · 56% unseen
2026
14med 1 · 67% unseen · 5 too fresh

ATV × presentation: what the pairings end up with

every presentation tag shipped with ATV at least 5 times · same window
share reaching 500 reviews, shrunk towards the catalogue · click a row to open the concept
ATV ×3 y12 mmedian≥500adjusted vs chancelast hitwho made it
First-Person74156under 2012.3%
cliché ×2.02299 d
Mon Bazou
Pure Rock Crawling
Mon Bazou · Pure Rock Crawling
Third Person1279under 2010.4%
cliché ×3.87299 d
Mon Bazou
Pure Rock Crawling
Mon Bazou · Pure Rock Crawling
Atmospheric6317under 209.0%
ordinary ×0.93715 d
Pure Rock Crawling
Pure Rock Crawling
Relaxing6517under 209.0%
cliché ×1.68299 d
Mon Bazou
Mon Bazou
3D1888under 208.8%
cliché ×2.55299 d
Mon Bazou
Pure Rock Crawling
Mon Bazou · Pure Rock Crawling
Realistic9330under 208.0%
cliché ×4.45715 d
Pure Rock Crawling
Pure Rock Crawling
Cartoon521under 205.3%
ordinary ×1.34never
Top-Down511under 205.3%
ordinary ×1.23never
2D622under 205.1%
ordinary ×0.43never
Colorful631under 205.1%
ordinary ×1.09never
Stylized631under 205.1%
ordinary ×1.11never
0 pairings cleared 20 releases; 59 more never reached 5 and are not listed. Compared against 6.7% for games that carry any tags at all.

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.