Bullet Hell games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Bullet Hell on Steam: 6,206 released games, 1,540 in the last 12 months, 2,966 announced and still unreleased. Of the 3,054 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 8 lifetime reviews. 52% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Bullet Hell 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 included3,054 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsBullet Hell × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Bullet Hell at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Bullet Hell × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental | 11 | 1 | 35 | under 20 | 14.0% | ordinary ×0.81 | 561 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 187 | 52 | 14 | 10.7% 7%–16% | 10.3% | ordinary ×0.38 | 104 d |    | |
| Emotional | 47 | 9 | 9 | 10.6% 5%–23% | 9.4% | avoided ×0.29 | 369 d |   | |
| Narrative | 5 | 3 | 30 | under 20 | 9.3% | avoided ×0.20 | 160 d |  | |
| Gothic | 39 | 13 | 17 | 10.3% 4%–24% | 9.0% | ordinary ×1.29 | 328 d |    | |
| Dark Comedy | 29 | 10 | 11 | 10.3% 4%–26% | 8.8% | ordinary ×0.76 | 149 d |    | |
| Anime | 271 | 76 | 18 | 8.9% 6%–13% | 8.7% | ordinary ×0.89 | 99 d |   | |
| Isometric | 116 | 35 | 16 | 8.6% 5%–15% | 8.3% | ordinary ×1.20 | 142 d |    | |
| Nostalgia | 9 | 3 | 11 | under 20 | 8.0% | ordinary ×0.74 | 782 d |  | |
| Fast-Paced | 111 | 52 | 11 | 8.1% 4%–15% | 7.9% | cliché ×3.00 | 160 d |   | |
| First-Person | 193 | 69 | 7 | 7.8% 5%–12% | 7.7% | ordinary ×0.36 | 160 d |   | |
| Music | 37 | 10 | 8 | 8.1% 3%–21% | 7.6% | ordinary ×1.25 | 511 d |   | |
| Psychological | 11 | 6 | 11 | under 20 | 7.5% | avoided ×0.18 | 971 d | | |
| Horror | 120 | 39 | 10 | 7.5% 4%–14% | 7.4% | avoided ×0.34 | 99 d |  | |
| Parody | 26 | 8 | 13 | 7.7% 2%–24% | 7.2% | ordinary ×0.91 | 807 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.
