Action RTS games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Action RTS on Steam: 1,040 released games, 376 in the last 12 months, 658 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 8. 52% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Action RTS 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 included542 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsAction RTS × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Action RTS at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Action RTS × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinematic | 12 | 4 | 3 | under 20 | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.97 | 277 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 42 | 13 | 24 | 16.7% 8%–31% | 13.4% | ordinary ×0.44 | 433 d |    | |
| Lore-Rich | 14 | 2 | 29 | under 20 | 12.7% | ordinary ×0.80 | 769 d |   | |
| Anime | 30 | 11 | 11 | 16.7% 7%–34% | 12.7% | ordinary ×0.50 | 219 d |    | |
| FMV | 7 | 1 | 2 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×1.20 | 339 d | | |
| Voxel | 9 | 4 | 1 | under 20 | 11.5% | cliché ×2.34 | 523 d |   | |
| Isometric | 53 | 14 | 23 | 13.2% 7%–25% | 11.4% | cliché ×3.58 | 173 d |   | |
| Gore | 10 | 4 | 24 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.67 | 425 d |  | |
| Violent | 10 | 3 | 12 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.66 | 425 d | | |
| Realistic | 41 | 17 | 28 | 12.2% 5%–26% | 10.4% | ordinary ×1.19 | 173 d |  | |
| 3D | 257 | 84 | 8 | 9.3% 6%–14% | 9.1% | cliché ×1.87 | 173 d |  | |
| Old School | 19 | 8 | 38 | under 20 | 8.5% | ordinary ×0.89 | 201 d |   | |
| Side Scroller | 8 | 1 | 4 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.37 | 460 d | | |
| Difficult | 20 | 3 | 14 | 10.0% 3%–30% | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.70 | 481 d | | |
| Atmospheric | 51 | 18 | 10 | 7.8% 3%–19% | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.53 | 277 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.
