Cold War games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Cold War on Steam: 520 released games, 155 in the last 12 months, 237 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 17. 40% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. Cold War 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 included152 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsCold War × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Cold War at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Cold War × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tactical | 32 | 10 | 36 | 28.1% 16%–45% | 19.9% | cliché ×3.74 | 138 d |    | |
| Sandbox | 9 | 4 | 55 | under 20 | 18.4% | ordinary ×1.37 | 700 d |   | |
| Third-Person Shooter | 11 | 4 | 36 | under 20 | 17.2% | cliché ×3.76 | 138 d |   | |
| Action-Adventure | 23 | 5 | 16 | 26.1% 13%–46% | 17.1% | ordinary ×1.09 | 138 d |  | |
| Simulation | 47 | 13 | 20 | 21.3% 12%–35% | 16.9% | cliché ×1.70 | 173 d | | |
| Action | 71 | 25 | 20 | 19.7% 12%–30% | 16.8% | ordinary ×1.31 | 138 d | | |
| Vehicular Combat | 18 | 6 | 76 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×7.73 | 141 d |   | |
| Destruction | 8 | 3 | 14 | under 20 | 15.5% | cliché ×3.88 | 536 d |  | |
| Open World | 10 | 4 | 9 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.15 | 536 d |  | |
| Real Time Tactics | 10 | 4 | 57 | under 20 | 14.4% | cliché ×3.54 | 700 d | | |
| Survival | 10 | 4 | 16 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.10 | 411 d |  | |
| Management | 17 | 6 | 17 | under 20 | 14.4% | cliché ×1.87 | 459 d |  | |
| Shooter | 40 | 14 | 20 | 17.5% 9%–32% | 13.9% | cliché ×2.86 | 138 d | | |
| Wargame | 43 | 14 | 31 | 16.3% 8%–30% | 13.2% | cliché ×14.48 | 173 d | | |
| Roguelite | 6 | 2 | 6 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.37 | 711 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.
