Class-Based games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Class-Based on Steam: 1,612 released games, 722 in the last 12 months, 1,181 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 13. 45% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 16%. Class-Based 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 included690 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsClass-Based × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Class-Based at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Class-Based × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Military | 24 | 8 | 35 | 33.3% 18%–53% | 21.2% | cliché ×1.88 | 141 d |    | |
| War | 26 | 7 | 35 | 30.8% 17%–50% | 20.3% | cliché ×1.85 | 173 d |  | |
| Mythology | 26 | 8 | 60 | 23.1% 11%–42% | 15.9% | cliché ×2.50 | 192 d |    | |
| Vampires | 6 | 1 | 26 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×1.25 | 859 d |   | |
| Zombies | 24 | 5 | 16 | 16.7% 7%–36% | 12.1% | ordinary ×1.21 | 258 d |    | |
| Dragons | 16 | 6 | 61 | under 20 | 12.0% | cliché ×2.84 | 131 d |   | |
| Fantasy | 324 | 124 | 20 | 12.3% 9%–16% | 12.0% | cliché ×3.32 | 90 d |    | |
| Historical | 8 | 4 | 15 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.80 | 238 d |  | |
| Steampunk | 8 | 1 | 8 | under 20 | 11.9% | cliché ×2.09 | 686 d |   | |
| Horror | 25 | 10 | 14 | 16.0% 6%–35% | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.40 | 258 d |  | |
| Dark Fantasy | 98 | 41 | 19 | 12.2% 7%–20% | 11.3% | cliché ×3.51 | 141 d |  | |
| Aliens | 19 | 7 | 9 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×1.27 | 151 d |   | |
| Space | 28 | 12 | 10 | 14.3% 6%–31% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.92 | 151 d |   | |
| Sci-fi | 75 | 28 | 10 | 12.0% 6%–21% | 10.9% | ordinary ×1.22 | 141 d |  | |
| Modern | 13 | 6 | 35 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.98 | 173 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.
