Battle Royale games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Battle Royale on Steam: 1,148 released games, 230 in the last 12 months, 491 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 10. 49% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 27%. Battle Royale 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 included446 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsBattle Royale × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Battle Royale at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Battle Royale × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechs | 8 | 2 | 147 | under 20 | 15.5% | cliché ×1.76 | 113 d |    | |
| Mythology | 8 | 1 | 31 | under 20 | 15.5% | ordinary ×0.80 | 565 d |    | |
| Military | 37 | 5 | 23 | 18.9% 9%–34% | 14.6% | cliché ×3.07 | 350 d |   | |
| Modern | 10 | 1 | 26 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.13 | 350 d |  | |
| Sniper | 11 | 2 | 23 | under 20 | 14.0% | cliché ×10.83 | 494 d |    | |
| Medieval | 19 | 5 | 7 | under 20 | 13.7% | ordinary ×0.86 | 349 d |    | |
| Robots | 7 | 1 | 19 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×1.21 | 469 d | | |
| Pirates | 8 | 2 | 14 | under 20 | 11.9% | cliché ×2.40 | 113 d |  | |
| Sci-fi | 35 | 8 | 9 | 14.3% 6%–29% | 11.5% | ordinary ×1.08 | 448 d |   | |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 3 | 9 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×1.39 | 194 d |  | |
| Thriller | 9 | 2 | 59 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.54 | 187 d |   | |
| Dark Fantasy | 18 | 6 | 10 | under 20 | 11.4% | ordinary ×0.79 | 349 d |  | |
| Magic | 19 | 5 | 4 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.93 | 349 d | | |
| War | 37 | 7 | 20 | 10.8% 4%–25% | 9.4% | cliché ×3.16 | 350 d | | |
| Space Sim | 5 | 0 | 38 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.94 | 448 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.
