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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 8 | 1 | 290 | under 20 | 19.0% | cliché ×1.71 | 173 d |    | |
| Realistic | 38 | 12 | 21 | 23.7% 13%–39% | 17.8% | cliché ×2.87 | 138 d |    | |
| Third Person | 15 | 9 | 9 | under 20 | 15.2% | ordinary ×1.44 | 138 d | | |
| 3D | 55 | 17 | 28 | 16.4% 9%–28% | 13.8% | ordinary ×1.34 | 138 d |  | |
| Cinematic | 12 | 2 | 16 | under 20 | 13.5% | cliché ×2.52 | 411 d |  | |
| Gore | 6 | 2 | 174 | under 20 | 12.8% | cliché ×1.76 | 173 d |  | |
| Satire | 7 | 3 | 26 | under 20 | 12.3% | cliché ×4.45 | 652 d |  | |
| Dark Humor | 9 | 3 | 28 | under 20 | 11.5% | cliché ×2.22 | 486 d |  | |
| Story Rich | 30 | 13 | 19 | 13.3% 5%–30% | 10.7% | ordinary ×1.30 | 411 d | | |
| First-Person | 52 | 14 | 21 | 11.5% 5%–23% | 10.2% | cliché ×1.87 | 173 d |  | |
| Relaxing | 5 | 3 | 20 | under 20 | 9.3% | avoided ×0.22 | 652 d | | |
| Cartoony | 6 | 1 | 12 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.49 | 652 d | | |
| Comedy | 7 | 2 | 12 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.10 | 1005 d | | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 7 | 3 | 40 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.40 | 486 d | | |
| Emotional | 7 | 5 | 40 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×0.90 | 859 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.
