Combat games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Combat on Steam: 15,174 released games, 4,029 in the last 12 months, 11,598 announced and still unreleased. Of the 8,218 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 9 lifetime reviews. 51% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. Combat 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 included8,218 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsCombat × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Combat at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Combat × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crime | 104 | 30 | 13 | 19.2% 13%–28% | 17.2% | ordinary ×0.88 | 169 d |    | |
| Pirates | 79 | 19 | 14 | 17.7% 11%–28% | 15.5% | cliché ×1.61 | 111 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 80 | 28 | 50 | 17.5% 11%–27% | 15.3% | avoided ×0.31 | 146 d |    | |
| Horses | 9 | 1 | 137 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×0.47 | 223 d |    | |
| Mechs | 122 | 29 | 18 | 15.6% 10%–23% | 14.3% | cliché ×1.97 | 294 d |    | |
| Mining | 69 | 30 | 12 | 15.9% 9%–26% | 13.8% | ordinary ×1.00 | 250 d |    | |
| Fishing | 41 | 16 | 29 | 17.1% 9%–31% | 13.6% | ordinary ×0.63 | 184 d |    | |
| Dating Sim | 49 | 17 | 51 | 16.3% 9%–29% | 13.5% | avoided ×0.13 | 176 d |    | |
| Baseball | 5 | 1 | 43 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.42 | 188 d |   | |
| Wuxia | 13 | 9 | 226 | under 20 | 13.1% | cliché ×1.53 | 182 d |    | |
| Superhero | 52 | 13 | 11 | 15.4% 8%–28% | 13.0% | cliché ×1.79 | 159 d |   | |
| Noir | 61 | 23 | 13 | 14.8% 8%–26% | 12.7% | ordinary ×0.67 | 169 d |    | |
| Psychological Horror | 235 | 61 | 19 | 13.2% 9%–18% | 12.7% | avoided ×0.34 | 90 d |   | |
| Heist | 30 | 9 | 18 | 16.7% 7%–34% | 12.7% | ordinary ×1.19 | 147 d |   | |
| Vampires | 71 | 29 | 14 | 14.1% 8%–24% | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.13 | 190 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.
