Automation games on Steam
Automation on Steam: 2,869 released games, 1,676 in the last 12 months, 1,759 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 15. 45% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Automation 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 included1,386 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago — anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsAutomation × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Automation at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Automation × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trains | 36 | 18 | 61 | 27.8% 16%–44% | 20.1% | cliché ×5.43 | 206 d |    | |
| Transportation | 49 | 25 | 13 | 22.4% 13%–36% | 17.7% | cliché ×7.60 | 144 d |   | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 47 | 28 | 13 | 21.3% 12%–35% | 16.8% | ordinary ×0.97 | 164 d |    | |
| Sci-fi | 196 | 93 | 19 | 17.3% 13%–23% | 16.3% | ordinary ×1.44 | 95 d |   | |
| Mining | 98 | 61 | 33 | 18.4% 12%–27% | 16.3% | cliché ×9.50 | 108 d |    | |
| Space | 116 | 57 | 22 | 17.2% 11%–25% | 15.6% | cliché ×1.91 | 95 d |   | |
| Job Simulator | 33 | 21 | 99 | 21.2% 11%–38% | 15.6% | cliché ×4.32 | 145 d |    | |
| Nature | 108 | 66 | 18 | 16.7% 11%–25% | 15.0% | cliché ×1.68 | 112 d | | |
| Psychological Horror | 22 | 6 | 72 | 22.7% 10%–43% | 14.9% | avoided ×0.19 | 272 d |    | |
| Female Protagonist | 26 | 15 | 68 | 19.2% 9%–38% | 13.6% | avoided ×0.20 | 192 d |    | |
| Capitalism | 159 | 86 | 40 | 14.5% 10%–21% | 13.5% | cliché ×7.63 | 103 d |    | |
| Fantasy | 168 | 94 | 26 | 14.3% 10%–20% | 13.4% | ordinary ×0.83 | 104 d |    | |
| Space Sim | 49 | 27 | 0 | 16.3% 9%–29% | 13.4% | cliché ×3.57 | 95 d |   | |
| Fishing | 51 | 30 | 23 | 15.7% 8%–28% | 13.0% | cliché ×3.54 | 128 d |   | |
| Farming | 28 | 14 | 31 | 17.9% 8%–36% | 13.0% | cliché ×7.19 | 98 d |   |
“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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