The niche at a glance
Cats on Steam: 3,099 released games, 1,199 in the last 12 months, 1,267 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gore | 9 | 3 | 105 | under 20 | 18.4% | avoided ×0.27 | 757 d |    | |
| Narrative | 12 | 4 | 28 | under 20 | 16.7% | ordinary ×1.17 | 187 d |    | |
| Surreal | 43 | 11 | 23 | 20.9% 11%–35% | 16.4% | ordinary ×0.86 | 173 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 182 | 59 | 43 | 15.4% 11%–21% | 14.5% | ordinary ×0.89 | 117 d |  | |
| Wholesome | 308 | 94 | 48 | 14.9% 11%–19% | 14.4% | cliché ×12.66 | 145 d |    | |
| Cozy | 391 | 141 | 46 | 14.3% 11%–18% | 13.9% | cliché ×8.03 | 96 d | | |
| Short | 34 | 8 | 21 | 17.6% 8%–34% | 13.6% | cliché ×1.58 | 173 d |    | |
| Experimental | 6 | 3 | 134 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.73 | 245 d |   | |
| Minimalist | 326 | 100 | 34 | 12.6% 9%–17% | 12.2% | cliché ×2.39 | 327 d |  | |
| Realistic | 43 | 13 | 14 | 14.0% 7%–27% | 11.6% | ordinary ×0.36 | 265 d |    | |
| Psychedelic | 28 | 5 | 10 | 14.3% 6%–31% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.94 | 214 d |    | |
| Hand-drawn | 515 | 159 | 46 | 11.3% 9%–14% | 11.1% | cliché ×4.17 | 187 d | | |
| Horror | 66 | 26 | 28 | 12.1% 6%–22% | 10.9% | ordinary ×0.43 | 214 d |  | |
| Emotional | 124 | 40 | 25 | 11.3% 7%–18% | 10.6% | cliché ×1.84 | 117 d |  | |
| Philosophical | 13 | 5 | 4 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.81 | 589 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.
