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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Narrative | 12 | 5 | 39 | under 20 | 19.8% | cliché ×1.75 | 183 d |    | |
| Isometric | 48 | 12 | 38 | 25.0% 15%–39% | 19.6% | cliché ×1.69 | 160 d |   | |
| FMV | 17 | 2 | 129 | under 20 | 17.1% | cliché ×2.05 | 169 d |    | |
| Atmospheric | 246 | 78 | 20 | 14.6% 11%–20% | 14.0% | ordinary ×1.28 | 147 d |    | |
| Cinematic | 67 | 16 | 19 | 14.9% 8%–25% | 13.0% | cliché ×2.07 | 169 d |  | |
| Dark Comedy | 29 | 4 | 19 | 17.2% 8%–35% | 12.9% | cliché ×2.36 | 722 d |   | |
| Realistic | 139 | 35 | 23 | 13.7% 9%–20% | 12.8% | cliché ×1.59 | 174 d | | |
| Emotional | 55 | 21 | 15 | 14.5% 8%–26% | 12.5% | ordinary ×1.34 | 169 d |   | |
| Lore-Rich | 96 | 29 | 23 | 13.5% 8%–22% | 12.4% | cliché ×3.71 | 113 d |  | |
| Dark | 98 | 35 | 25 | 13.3% 8%–21% | 12.2% | ordinary ×1.25 | 183 d | | |
| Gore | 24 | 8 | 19 | 16.7% 7%–36% | 12.1% | ordinary ×1.01 | 174 d |   | |
| Gothic | 16 | 5 | 14 | under 20 | 12.1% | cliché ×1.72 | 168 d |    | |
| Horror | 133 | 36 | 24 | 12.8% 8%–20% | 12.0% | ordinary ×1.11 | 237 d |  | |
| Minimalist | 50 | 17 | 8 | 14.0% 7%–26% | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.78 | 266 d |    | |
| 3D | 325 | 107 | 13 | 11.7% 9%–16% | 11.4% | ordinary ×1.20 | 142 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.
