Cats games on Steam
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Cats on Steam: 3,097 released games, 1,197 in the last 12 months, 1,269 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 17. 40% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Cats 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 included1,663 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsCats × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Cats at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Cats × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City Builder | 15 | 3 | 89 | under 20 | 15.2% | ordinary ×0.61 | 565 d |    | |
| Souls-like | 15 | 7 | 50 | under 20 | 15.2% | ordinary ×0.82 | 117 d |    | |
| Loot | 23 | 11 | 57 | 21.7% 10%–42% | 14.7% | ordinary ×0.71 | 183 d |    | |
| Mining | 10 | 4 | 31 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×0.78 | 173 d |    | |
| Life Sim | 95 | 40 | 24 | 15.8% 10%–24% | 14.2% | cliché ×2.17 | 96 d |  | |
| Job Simulator | 12 | 6 | 121 | under 20 | 13.5% | cliché ×2.27 | 346 d |    | |
| Collectathon | 321 | 112 | 40 | 13.1% 10%–17% | 12.7% | cliché ×5.20 | 144 d |    | |
| Creature Collector | 339 | 101 | 41 | 12.7% 10%–17% | 12.3% | cliché ×8.25 | 187 d | | |
| Escape Room | 7 | 2 | 59 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.78 | 245 d |   | |
| Exploration | 415 | 130 | 35 | 12.3% 9%–16% | 12.0% | ordinary ×1.39 | 144 d |  | |
| Farming | 8 | 1 | 16 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×1.29 | 571 d |   | |
| Metroidvania | 25 | 5 | 42 | 16.0% 6%–35% | 11.9% | ordinary ×1.31 | 187 d |   | |
| Survival Horror | 9 | 3 | 22 | under 20 | 11.5% | avoided ×0.25 | 582 d |   | |
| Open World | 54 | 10 | 22 | 13.0% 6%–24% | 11.3% | ordinary ×0.70 | 447 d |  | |
| Hidden Object | 447 | 134 | 46 | 11.2% 9%–14% | 11.0% | cliché ×4.42 | 187 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.
