Cinematic games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Cinematic on Steam: 4,796 released games, 1,663 in the last 12 months, 2,640 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 14. 45% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Cinematic 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 included2,393 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsCinematic × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Cinematic at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Cinematic × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party-Based RPG | 18 | 4 | 35 | under 20 | 24.6% | ordinary ×0.54 | 188 d |    | |
| Strategy RPG | 37 | 8 | 42 | 32.4% 20%–49% | 23.4% | ordinary ×0.78 | 127 d |    | |
| RPG | 375 | 127 | 45 | 23.7% 20%–28% | 22.9% | ordinary ×0.83 | 90 d |   | |
| Trading | 9 | 3 | 1,065 | under 20 | 21.8% | ordinary ×0.48 | 343 d |    | |
| Tactical | 61 | 17 | 56 | 26.2% 17%–38% | 21.4% | ordinary ×0.75 | 152 d |    | |
| Driving | 55 | 17 | 27 | 25.5% 16%–38% | 20.4% | ordinary ×1.49 | 140 d |   | |
| Multiple Endings | 379 | 139 | 56 | 20.6% 17%–25% | 19.9% | cliché ×1.88 | 90 d |  | |
| Swordplay | 22 | 5 | 16 | 31.8% 16%–53% | 19.8% | ordinary ×1.42 | 188 d |    | |
| MMORPG | 12 | 6 | 316 | under 20 | 19.8% | ordinary ×0.74 | 192 d |    | |
| Wargame | 35 | 11 | 21 | 25.7% 14%–42% | 18.8% | ordinary ×1.09 | 147 d |   | |
| Quick-Time Events | 41 | 15 | 20 | 24.4% 14%–39% | 18.6% | cliché ×2.32 | 154 d |    | |
| Turn-Based Combat | 25 | 7 | 91 | 28.0% 14%–48% | 18.5% | avoided ×0.34 | 326 d |   | |
| Character Customization | 63 | 22 | 15 | 22.2% 14%–34% | 18.5% | ordinary ×0.66 | 140 d | | |
| Strategy | 205 | 54 | 13 | 19.5% 15%–25% | 18.4% | ordinary ×0.49 | 90 d |  | |
| Open World | 149 | 47 | 16 | 19.5% 14%–27% | 17.9% | ordinary ×1.25 | 96 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.
