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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychological Horror | 40 | 12 | 20 | 17.5% 9%–32% | 13.9% | avoided ×0.21 | 369 d |    | |
| Dark Fantasy | 270 | 97 | 15 | 11.9% 9%–16% | 11.5% | cliché ×1.52 | 99 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 18 | 6 | 5 | under 20 | 11.4% | ordinary ×0.59 | 728 d |    | |
| Faith | 27 | 8 | 31 | 14.8% 6%–32% | 11.3% | cliché ×2.86 | 373 d |    | |
| Mythology | 55 | 16 | 12 | 12.7% 6%–24% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.97 | 456 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 30 | 10 | 16 | 13.3% 5%–30% | 10.7% | ordinary ×0.37 | 104 d |   | |
| Heist | 5 | 5 | 19 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.61 | 230 d |  | |
| Vampires | 59 | 16 | 16 | 10.2% 5%–20% | 9.3% | cliché ×2.24 | 328 d |    | |
| Gothic | 39 | 13 | 17 | 10.3% 4%–24% | 9.0% | ordinary ×1.29 | 328 d |  | |
| Superhero | 17 | 6 | 18 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×1.07 | 824 d |   | |
| Dwarves | 7 | 3 | 17 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.01 | 406 d |  | |
| Vikings | 7 | 1 | 14 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.34 | 238 d |  | |
| Mechs | 77 | 20 | 16 | 9.1% 4%–18% | 8.6% | cliché ×3.56 | 181 d |    | |
| Farming Sim | 8 | 1 | 54 | under 20 | 8.3% | avoided ×0.26 | 954 d |  | |
| Pirates | 21 | 6 | 14 | 9.5% 3%–29% | 8.1% | ordinary ×1.05 | 544 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.
