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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Villain Protagonist | 8 | 3 | 256 | under 20 | 19.0% | ordinary ×0.75 | 132 d |    | |
| Dwarves | 17 | 5 | 62 | under 20 | 17.1% | ordinary ×0.89 | 163 d |    | |
| Capybaras | 6 | 2 | 25 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.75 | 173 d |   | |
| Job Simulator | 30 | 11 | 50 | 16.7% 7%–34% | 12.7% | ordinary ×0.45 | 127 d |    | |
| Mechs | 71 | 17 | 24 | 14.1% 8%–24% | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.46 | 132 d |    | |
| Trains | 23 | 11 | 5 | 17.4% 7%–37% | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.59 | 105 d |    | |
| Capitalism | 134 | 67 | 20 | 12.7% 8%–19% | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.91 | 91 d |    | |
| Crime | 55 | 22 | 10 | 12.7% 6%–24% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.47 | 272 d |    | |
| Music | 144 | 49 | 12 | 10.4% 6%–16% | 10.0% | cliché ×1.77 | 176 d |    | |
| Superhero | 54 | 15 | 5 | 11.1% 5%–22% | 9.9% | ordinary ×1.44 | 181 d |    | |
| Skating | 25 | 7 | 16 | 12.0% 4%–30% | 9.6% | cliché ×2.88 | 105 d |   | |
| Skiing | 15 | 3 | 17 | under 20 | 9.5% | cliché ×2.90 | 618 d |   | |
| Baseball | 26 | 8 | 6 | 11.5% 4%–29% | 9.4% | cliché ×2.59 | 111 d |    | |
| Naval | 26 | 6 | 10 | 11.5% 4%–29% | 9.4% | ordinary ×0.90 | 146 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 112 | 25 | 12 | 9.8% 6%–17% | 9.3% | cliché ×1.66 | 97 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.
