Board Game games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Board Game on Steam: 3,910 released games, 1,267 in the last 12 months, 1,282 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 4. 63% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Board Game 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 included1,575 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsBoard Game × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Board Game at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Board Game × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World War II | 8 | 2 | 5 | under 20 | 11.9% | cliché ×2.67 | 553 d |   | |
| Female Protagonist | 62 | 21 | 10 | 12.9% 7%–23% | 11.4% | ordinary ×0.42 | 188 d |    | |
| Horror | 48 | 13 | 8 | 12.5% 6%–25% | 10.8% | avoided ×0.29 | 258 d |    | |
| Lovecraftian | 13 | 4 | 62 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.88 | 425 d |   | |
| Psychological Horror | 24 | 9 | 37 | 12.5% 4%–31% | 9.8% | avoided ×0.28 | 237 d |  | |
| Gothic | 5 | 0 | 43 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.67 | 964 d | | |
| Poker | 5 | 4 | 18 | under 20 | 9.3% | cliché ×7.50 | 602 d |  | |
| Job Simulator | 6 | 3 | 58 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.38 | 400 d |  | |
| Space Sim | 6 | 1 | 12 | under 20 | 9.0% | avoided ×0.17 | 944 d |  | |
| Dragons | 18 | 9 | 7 | under 20 | 8.8% | cliché ×1.62 | 188 d |   | |
| Mechs | 8 | 3 | 2 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.64 | 531 d | | |
| Vampires | 8 | 2 | 53 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.98 | 237 d | | |
| Agriculture | 9 | 2 | 15 | under 20 | 8.0% | ordinary ×0.67 | 985 d |  | |
| Science | 9 | 2 | 14 | under 20 | 8.0% | ordinary ×0.95 | 908 d |  | |
| Tanks | 9 | 2 | 1 | under 20 | 8.0% | cliché ×1.52 | 915 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.
