CRPG games on Steam
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CRPG on Steam: 2,140 released games, 651 in the last 12 months, 1,034 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 13. 45% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 13%. CRPG 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 included935 releasesp100
p252
median13
p7571
p90458
45% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $9.99 · 13% free-to-play
Releases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2019
36med 86 · 22% unseen
2020
98med 29 · 27% unseen
2021
163med 25 · 33% unseen
2022
223med 14 · 42% unseen
2023
235med 22 · 36% unseen
2024
316med 17 · 36% unseen
2025
318med 15 · 42% unseen
2026
407med 3 · 61% unseen · 153 too fresh
CRPG × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with CRPG at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentationshare reaching 500 reviews, shrunk towards the catalogue · click a row to open the concept
| CRPG × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historical | 42 | 12 | 29 | 28.6% 17%–44% | 21.5% | cliché ×2.02 | 194 d |    | |
| Sailing | 6 | 1 | 570 | under 20 | 20.5% | cliché ×1.51 | 214 d |   | |
| Pirates | 7 | 1 | 570 | under 20 | 19.8% | cliché ×1.70 | 214 d | | |
| Wuxia | 7 | 6 | 654 | under 20 | 19.8% | cliché ×6.97 | 152 d |    | |
| Romance | 94 | 27 | 29 | 19.1% 12%–28% | 17.0% | cliché ×1.99 | 126 d |    | |
| War | 18 | 5 | 46 | under 20 | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.98 | 194 d |  | |
| Agriculture | 6 | 1 | 131 | under 20 | 16.7% | ordinary ×1.00 | 267 d |   | |
| Steampunk | 6 | 3 | 174 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×1.75 | 686 d |    | |
| Dark Fantasy | 115 | 31 | 16 | 18.3% 12%–26% | 16.5% | cliché ×2.91 | 217 d |   | |
| Military | 7 | 2 | 72 | under 20 | 16.0% | ordinary ×0.42 | 194 d | | |
| Alternate History | 28 | 12 | 16 | 21.4% 10%–40% | 15.3% | cliché ×2.76 | 194 d |  | |
| Space | 22 | 7 | 22 | 22.7% 10%–43% | 15.1% | ordinary ×0.40 | 197 d |   | |
| Dating Sim | 84 | 24 | 37 | 16.7% 10%–26% | 14.7% | cliché ×2.08 | 137 d |   | |
| Otome | 10 | 5 | 25 | under 20 | 14.4% | cliché ×1.74 | 137 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 36 | 9 | 42 | 16.7% 8%–32% | 13.1% | ordinary ×1.20 | 217 d |  |
30 pairings cleared 20 releases; 71 more never reached 5 and are not listed. Compared against 6.7% for games that carry any tags at all.
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.
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