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 included934 releasesp100
p252
median13
p7571
p90459
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
406med 3 · 60% unseen · 153 too fresh
CRPG × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isometric | 54 | 17 | 128 | 33.3% 22%–47% | 26.1% | cliché ×3.45 | 145 d |    | |
| FMV | 19 | 5 | 361 | under 20 | 18.8% | cliché ×2.48 | 328 d |    | |
| Narrative | 11 | 6 | 114 | under 20 | 17.2% | ordinary ×1.21 | 224 d |   | |
| Cinematic | 32 | 10 | 12 | 21.9% 11%–39% | 16.0% | ordinary ×1.00 | 126 d |  | |
| Story Rich | 331 | 108 | 29 | 16.3% 13%–21% | 15.8% | cliché ×2.40 | 137 d |   | |
| Lore-Rich | 94 | 30 | 24 | 16.0% 10%–25% | 14.3% | cliché ×3.92 | 137 d |  | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 63 | 22 | 27 | 14.3% 8%–25% | 12.4% | cliché ×2.51 | 126 d |   | |
| Third Person | 130 | 37 | 15 | 13.1% 8%–20% | 12.2% | ordinary ×1.46 | 126 d |  | |
| Realistic | 53 | 15 | 20 | 13.2% 7%–25% | 11.4% | ordinary ×0.74 | 126 d |   | |
| Anime | 226 | 69 | 18 | 11.5% 8%–16% | 11.1% | cliché ×1.92 | 126 d |   | |
| Atmospheric | 161 | 53 | 15 | 11.2% 7%–17% | 10.7% | ordinary ×1.06 | 145 d |   | |
| 3D | 220 | 59 | 14 | 10.5% 7%–15% | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.89 | 126 d |  | |
| Difficult | 13 | 1 | 59 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.45 | 624 d |  | |
| Dynamic Narration | 13 | 3 | 37 | under 20 | 10.1% | cliché ×2.76 | 328 d | | |
| Gore | 14 | 8 | 6 | under 20 | 9.8% | ordinary ×0.58 | 222 d |   |
39 pairings cleared 20 releases; 16 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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