Beat 'em up games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Beat 'em up on Steam: 2,553 released games, 595 in the last 12 months, 1,016 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 8. 52% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Beat 'em up 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 included1,031 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsBeat 'em up × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Beat 'em up at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Beat 'em up × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechs | 15 | 1 | 469 | under 20 | 23.8% | cliché ×2.32 | 394 d |    | |
| Dating Sim | 10 | 4 | 227 | under 20 | 21.1% | avoided ×0.23 | 244 d |    | |
| Tanks | 6 | 1 | 1,044 | under 20 | 20.5% | ordinary ×0.93 | 513 d |   | |
| Crime | 21 | 8 | 17 | 28.6% 14%–50% | 17.9% | cliché ×1.92 | 244 d |  | |
| Wuxia | 5 | 0 | 810 | under 20 | 17.3% | cliché ×3.20 | 532 d |   | |
| Superhero | 24 | 7 | 11 | 25.0% 12%–45% | 16.7% | cliché ×7.32 | 316 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 111 | 33 | 15 | 14.4% 9%–22% | 13.2% | cliché ×16.07 | 161 d |   | |
| Dogs | 8 | 1 | 26 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×1.09 | 1070 d |  | |
| Assassins | 9 | 2 | 8 | under 20 | 11.5% | cliché ×3.85 | 328 d |   | |
| LGBTQ+ | 18 | 7 | 120 | under 20 | 11.4% | ordinary ×0.65 | 328 d |  | |
| Music | 10 | 4 | 11 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.76 | 161 d |  | |
| Military | 21 | 4 | 2 | 14.3% 5%–35% | 10.6% | ordinary ×0.77 | 169 d |  | |
| 1990's | 82 | 29 | 11 | 11.0% 6%–20% | 10.1% | cliché ×2.01 | 188 d |  | |
| War | 23 | 4 | 4 | 13.0% 5%–32% | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.69 | 809 d | | |
| Heist | 5 | 1 | 157 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×1.36 | 328 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.
