Animals games on Steam
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Animals on Steam: 1,006 released games, 784 in the last 12 months, 909 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 15. 44% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 7%. Animals 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 included255 releasesp100
p251
median15
p7591
p90519
44% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $4.99 · 7% free-to-play
Releases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2019
14med 107 · 21% unseen
2020
14med 30 · 21% unseen
2021
11med 77 · 0% unseen
2022
15med 636 · 0% unseen
2023
22med 216 · 27% unseen
2024
45med 69 · 24% unseen
2025
65med 36 · 28% unseen
2026
439med 3 · 59% unseen · 305 too fresh
Animals × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Animals at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentationshare reaching 500 reviews, shrunk towards the catalogue · click a row to open the concept
| Animals × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exploration | 54 | 25 | 80 | 27.8% 18%–41% | 22.1% | ordinary ×1.29 | 158 d |    | |
| Economy | 15 | 10 | 159 | under 20 | 21.0% | cliché ×2.16 | 157 d |    | |
| Adventure | 54 | 26 | 46 | 25.9% 16%–39% | 20.7% | ordinary ×0.75 | 158 d |    | |
| Hidden Object | 33 | 13 | 73 | 27.3% 15%–44% | 19.5% | ordinary ×1.47 | 597 d |  | |
| Farming Sim | 17 | 9 | 32 | under 20 | 17.1% | cliché ×6.38 | 157 d |  | |
| Immersive Sim | 17 | 11 | 122 | under 20 | 17.1% | ordinary ×1.01 | 157 d |  | |
| Hunting | 6 | 3 | 186 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×5.51 | 281 d | | |
| Trading | 6 | 1 | 159 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×1.78 | 845 d | | |
| Simulation | 73 | 45 | 39 | 19.2% 12%–30% | 16.5% | cliché ×1.67 | 157 d | | |
| Life Sim | 25 | 16 | 64 | 24.0% 11%–43% | 16.3% | cliché ×3.41 | 230 d | | |
| Job Simulator | 7 | 3 | 159 | under 20 | 16.0% | cliché ×4.89 | 180 d |  | |
| Shop Keeper | 8 | 5 | 66 | under 20 | 15.5% | cliché ×4.13 | 157 d |  | |
| Collectathon | 35 | 15 | 96 | 20.0% 10%–36% | 15.2% | cliché ×4.58 | 230 d |  | |
| Open World | 16 | 7 | 48 | under 20 | 14.8% | ordinary ×1.28 | 230 d | | |
| Point & Click | 44 | 23 | 39 | 18.2% 10%–32% | 14.6% | ordinary ×1.40 | 597 d | |
18 pairings cleared 20 releases; 146 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.
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