Beat 'em up games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Beat 'em up on Steam: 2,555 released games, 597 in the last 12 months, 1,017 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Story Rich | 109 | 35 | 17 | 15.6% 10%–24% | 14.2% | ordinary ×0.73 | 188 d |    | |
| Music | 10 | 4 | 11 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.75 | 161 d |   | |
| Violent | 85 | 31 | 11 | 11.8% 7%–20% | 10.8% | cliché ×2.01 | 169 d |   | |
| Difficult | 40 | 7 | 12 | 12.5% 5%–26% | 10.6% | ordinary ×1.32 | 355 d |   | |
| 2.5D | 84 | 22 | 11 | 10.7% 6%–19% | 9.9% | cliché ×3.20 | 125 d |    | |
| Anime | 121 | 27 | 20 | 9.9% 6%–17% | 9.5% | cliché ×1.51 | 161 d |   | |
| Comic Book | 58 | 16 | 24 | 10.3% 5%–21% | 9.4% | cliché ×3.48 | 316 d |  | |
| Lore-Rich | 37 | 8 | 16 | 10.8% 4%–25% | 9.4% | ordinary ×0.80 | 229 d |   | |
| Atmospheric | 128 | 40 | 11 | 9.4% 5%–16% | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.66 | 244 d |  | |
| Gore | 45 | 14 | 6 | 8.9% 4%–21% | 8.2% | cliché ×1.70 | 480 d | | |
| Dark Humor | 48 | 12 | 16 | 8.3% 3%–20% | 7.8% | cliché ×1.76 | 516 d |  | |
| Gothic | 10 | 4 | 12 | under 20 | 7.8% | ordinary ×1.40 | 328 d |  | |
| Cartoon | 78 | 26 | 10 | 7.7% 4%–16% | 7.5% | cliché ×2.10 | 125 d |   | |
| Cute | 145 | 37 | 12 | 7.6% 4%–13% | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.92 | 154 d |  | |
| Fast-Paced | 25 | 8 | 12 | 8.0% 2%–25% | 7.4% | cliché ×2.37 | 355 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.
