Abstract games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Abstract on Steam: 4,120 released games, 1,149 in the last 12 months, 1,359 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 8. 53% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Abstract 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 included1,779 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsAbstract × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Abstract at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Abstract × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trains | 7 | 1 | 605 | under 20 | 19.8% | ordinary ×0.74 | 400 d |    | |
| Loot | 14 | 8 | 4 | under 20 | 12.7% | ordinary ×0.45 | 183 d |    | |
| Colony Sim | 7 | 2 | 47 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.38 | 525 d |  | |
| Destruction | 32 | 11 | 7 | 15.6% 7%–32% | 12.2% | ordinary ×1.38 | 131 d |   | |
| Mining | 8 | 5 | 145 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.74 | 131 d |  | |
| Management | 87 | 42 | 14 | 12.6% 7%–21% | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.67 | 99 d |   | |
| Economy | 35 | 20 | 29 | 14.3% 6%–29% | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.60 | 99 d |  | |
| Transportation | 9 | 3 | 32 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.60 | 525 d | | |
| Hacking | 30 | 11 | 11 | 13.3% 5%–30% | 10.7% | cliché ×2.76 | 341 d |   | |
| City Builder | 13 | 4 | 11 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.48 | 525 d | | |
| Base Building | 24 | 7 | 3 | 12.5% 4%–31% | 9.8% | ordinary ×0.39 | 525 d |  | |
| Souls-like | 25 | 5 | 31 | 12.0% 4%–30% | 9.6% | ordinary ×0.73 | 307 d |    | |
| Medical Sim | 5 | 2 | 22 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.92 | 135 d |  | |
| Escape Room | 6 | 2 | 26 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.87 | 245 d |  | |
| Twin Stick Shooter | 29 | 7 | 10 | 10.3% 4%–26% | 8.8% | cliché ×1.79 | 348 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.
