Boss Rush games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Boss Rush on Steam: 249 released games, 132 in the last 12 months, 180 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 10. 50% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Boss Rush 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 included115 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsBoss Rush × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Boss Rush at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Boss Rush × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female Protagonist | 14 | 6 | 15 | under 20 | 12.7% | cliché ×1.55 | 305 d |    | |
| Sci-fi | 19 | 8 | 15 | under 20 | 11.1% | cliché ×1.60 | 305 d |  | |
| Dark Fantasy | 18 | 6 | 9 | under 20 | 8.8% | cliché ×3.66 | 761 d |  | |
| Space | 7 | 3 | 26 | under 20 | 8.6% | cliché ×1.63 | 792 d | | |
| Robots | 8 | 4 | 4 | under 20 | 8.3% | cliché ×2.40 | 761 d | | |
| Demons | 6 | 3 | 10 | under 20 | 5.1% | cliché ×2.16 | never | ||
| Fantasy | 31 | 12 | 13 | 3.2% 1%–16% | 4.6% | cliché ×2.09 | 379 d |  | |
| Magic | 11 | 5 | 56 | under 20 | 4.3% | cliché ×2.35 | never |
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.
