Arcade games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Arcade on Steam: 20,027 released games, 4,562 in the last 12 months, 7,695 announced and still unreleased. Of the 8,782 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 6 lifetime reviews. 57% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Arcade 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 included8,782 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsArcade × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Arcade at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Arcade × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cozy | 123 | 65 | 16 | 12.2% 8%–19% | 11.4% | ordinary ×0.60 | 127 d |    | |
| Experimental | 63 | 23 | 26 | 12.7% 7%–23% | 11.2% | ordinary ×1.15 | 224 d |    | |
| Nostalgia | 47 | 16 | 12 | 12.8% 6%–25% | 10.9% | cliché ×1.89 | 320 d |    | |
| Gore | 157 | 52 | 12 | 10.8% 7%–17% | 10.4% | ordinary ×0.54 | 126 d |    | |
| Violent | 182 | 62 | 10 | 10.4% 7%–16% | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.53 | 126 d |  | |
| Music | 144 | 49 | 12 | 10.4% 6%–16% | 10.0% | cliché ×1.77 | 176 d |    | |
| Narrative | 15 | 4 | 18 | under 20 | 9.5% | avoided ×0.23 | 216 d |  | |
| Rock Music | 15 | 3 | 38 | under 20 | 9.5% | cliché ×2.06 | 678 d |  | |
| Instrumental Music | 7 | 5 | 5 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.04 | 351 d |  | |
| Wholesome | 45 | 17 | 15 | 8.9% 4%–21% | 8.2% | ordinary ×0.48 | 625 d |  | |
| Dark Humor | 195 | 62 | 11 | 8.2% 5%–13% | 8.1% | ordinary ×0.94 | 264 d |    | |
| Short | 141 | 60 | 14 | 7.8% 4%–13% | 7.7% | ordinary ×0.96 | 91 d |  | |
| Anime | 668 | 215 | 18 | 6.9% 5%–9% | 6.9% | ordinary ×0.70 | 97 d |   | |
| Noir | 64 | 27 | 12 | 6.3% 2%–15% | 6.3% | ordinary ×0.59 | 312 d |    | |
| Horror | 461 | 145 | 9 | 6.1% 4%–9% | 6.1% | ordinary ×0.38 | 272 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.
