Alternate History games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Alternate History on Steam: 2,212 released games, 708 in the last 12 months, 1,291 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 13. 43% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 13%. Alternate History 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 included918 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsAlternate History × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Alternate History at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Alternate History × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Builder | 30 | 11 | 158 | 46.7% 30%–64% | 30.7% | cliché ×1.71 | 222 d |    | |
| Economy | 62 | 25 | 47 | 33.9% 23%–46% | 27.2% | cliché ×1.96 | 166 d |  | |
| 4X | 29 | 15 | 287 | 41.4% 26%–59% | 27.2% | cliché ×6.10 | 195 d | | |
| Colony Sim | 22 | 8 | 105 | 45.5% 27%–65% | 27.0% | cliché ×2.14 | 222 d |  | |
| Diplomacy | 36 | 11 | 89 | 33.3% 20%–50% | 23.8% | cliché ×13.10 | 182 d |  | |
| Management | 93 | 39 | 26 | 26.9% 19%–37% | 23.3% | cliché ×1.52 | 166 d | | |
| Sandbox | 63 | 21 | 43 | 28.6% 19%–41% | 23.3% | ordinary ×1.19 | 182 d |  | |
| Grand Strategy | 65 | 24 | 38 | 27.7% 18%–40% | 22.8% | cliché ×8.67 | 182 d | | |
| Building | 54 | 22 | 21 | 27.8% 18%–41% | 22.1% | ordinary ×1.12 | 222 d | | |
| Turn-Based | 10 | 4 | 488 | under 20 | 21.1% | cliché ×1.63 | 195 d |   | |
| Base Building | 45 | 14 | 77 | 26.7% 16%–41% | 20.5% | ordinary ×1.31 | 222 d | | |
| Resource Management | 64 | 27 | 25 | 23.4% 15%–35% | 19.5% | ordinary ×1.37 | 177 d | | |
| Trading | 15 | 5 | 33 | under 20 | 18.1% | ordinary ×1.37 | 177 d |   | |
| Tactical | 73 | 35 | 25 | 20.5% 13%–31% | 17.6% | cliché ×1.97 | 113 d | | |
| RTS | 53 | 14 | 33 | 20.8% 12%–33% | 16.9% | cliché ×2.81 | 271 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.
