Chess games on Steam
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Chess on Steam: 436 released games, 155 in the last 12 months, 172 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 5. 65% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Chess 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 included167 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsChess × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Chess at least 5 times · same window| Chess × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5D | 5 | 3 | 9 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×1.08 | 949 d |  | |
| Anime | 6 | 1 | 51 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.41 | 523 d |  | |
| Comedy | 6 | 4 | 4 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.54 | 949 d | | |
| Retro | 15 | 9 | 8 | under 20 | 6.7% | ordinary ×0.94 | 165 d |  | |
| Pixel Graphics | 31 | 20 | 11 | 6.5% 2%–21% | 6.5% | ordinary ×1.11 | 165 d | | |
| Difficult | 21 | 13 | 28 | 4.8% 1%–23% | 5.7% | cliché ×2.38 | 165 d | | |
| Dark | 5 | 3 | 6 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×0.51 | never | ||
| Cozy | 7 | 4 | 5 | under 20 | 4.9% | ordinary ×1.28 | never | ||
| Hand-drawn | 7 | 5 | 9 | under 20 | 4.9% | ordinary ×0.65 | never | ||
| Realistic | 7 | 1 | 28 | under 20 | 4.9% | ordinary ×0.53 | never | ||
| Story Rich | 7 | 4 | 4 | under 20 | 4.9% | avoided ×0.21 | never | ||
| Abstract | 8 | 2 | 4 | under 20 | 4.8% | cliché ×3.75 | never | ||
| Isometric | 11 | 5 | 16 | under 20 | 4.3% | cliché ×2.22 | never | ||
| Cartoon | 12 | 8 | 5 | under 20 | 4.2% | ordinary ×0.93 | never | ||
| Cartoony | 12 | 6 | 3 | under 20 | 4.2% | ordinary ×0.74 | never |
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.
