Atmospheric games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Atmospheric on Steam: 28,322 released games, 6,880 in the last 12 months, 17,178 announced and still unreleased. Of the 12,818 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 14 lifetime reviews. 43% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Atmospheric 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 included12,818 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsAtmospheric × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Atmospheric at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Atmospheric × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open World Survival Craft | 62 | 25 | 177 | 35.5% 25%–48% | 28.4% | ordinary ×1.23 | 133 d |    | |
| Base Building | 315 | 114 | 54 | 25.1% 21%–30% | 24.0% | ordinary ×0.79 | 104 d |   | |
| Farming | 20 | 6 | 94 | 40.0% 22%–61% | 23.3% | ordinary ×0.73 | 142 d |    | |
| Souls-like | 301 | 101 | 40 | 23.9% 19%–29% | 22.8% | cliché ×1.56 | 92 d |    | |
| Extraction Shooter | 26 | 10 | 112 | 34.6% 19%–54% | 22.4% | ordinary ×1.27 | 204 d |    | |
| Decorating | 23 | 14 | 161 | 34.8% 19%–55% | 21.7% | cliché ×1.50 | 155 d |    | |
| Cleaning | 28 | 18 | 282 | 32.1% 18%–51% | 21.5% | cliché ×1.77 | 105 d |    | |
| Character Action Game | 24 | 7 | 54 | 33.3% 18%–53% | 21.2% | ordinary ×1.08 | 134 d |    | |
| Organizing | 24 | 18 | 249 | 33.3% 18%–53% | 21.2% | ordinary ×1.50 | 128 d |  | |
| Turn-Based | 86 | 26 | 108 | 23.3% 16%–33% | 20.1% | ordinary ×0.69 | 169 d |    | |
| Swordplay | 87 | 31 | 38 | 23.0% 15%–33% | 19.9% | ordinary ×0.84 | 133 d |    | |
| Trains | 62 | 19 | 36 | 24.2% 15%–36% | 19.9% | ordinary ×1.29 | 180 d |    | |
| Open World | 1012 | 350 | 23 | 19.9% 18%–22% | 19.6% | ordinary ×1.40 | 113 d | | |
| MMORPG | 34 | 16 | 93 | 26.5% 15%–43% | 19.1% | ordinary ×0.45 | 133 d |    | |
| Class-Based | 72 | 24 | 26 | 22.2% 14%–33% | 18.8% | ordinary ×0.59 | 156 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.
