Combat games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Combat on Steam: 15,176 released games, 4,031 in the last 12 months, 11,599 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nostalgia | 21 | 10 | 39 | 42.9% 24%–63% | 25.2% | ordinary ×0.80 | 252 d |    | |
| Narrative | 36 | 15 | 31 | 25.0% 14%–41% | 18.4% | ordinary ×0.45 | 160 d |    | |
| Cinematic | 206 | 67 | 15 | 16.5% 12%–22% | 15.6% | ordinary ×0.88 | 111 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 1023 | 319 | 15 | 14.7% 13%–17% | 14.5% | ordinary ×0.72 | 92 d |    | |
| Gore | 512 | 168 | 17 | 14.3% 11%–18% | 14.0% | cliché ×1.52 | 90 d |    | |
| Realistic | 658 | 192 | 13 | 13.8% 11%–17% | 13.6% | ordinary ×0.93 | 96 d |    | |
| Dark Humor | 193 | 61 | 18 | 14.0% 10%–20% | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.81 | 191 d |    | |
| Difficult | 348 | 121 | 18 | 13.2% 10%–17% | 12.9% | ordinary ×0.81 | 98 d |   | |
| Noir | 61 | 23 | 13 | 14.8% 8%–26% | 12.7% | ordinary ×0.67 | 169 d |    | |
| Fast-Paced | 195 | 72 | 16 | 13.3% 9%–19% | 12.7% | ordinary ×1.40 | 160 d |    | |
| Lore-Rich | 237 | 82 | 14 | 13.1% 9%–18% | 12.6% | ordinary ×1.03 | 94 d |   | |
| Violent | 635 | 204 | 13 | 12.8% 10%–16% | 12.6% | cliché ×1.68 | 90 d | | |
| Anime | 560 | 189 | 27 | 12.3% 10%–15% | 12.1% | ordinary ×0.56 | 94 d |   | |
| Memes | 93 | 26 | 18 | 12.9% 8%–21% | 11.8% | ordinary ×0.66 | 100 d |   | |
| Gothic | 88 | 39 | 17 | 12.5% 7%–21% | 11.4% | ordinary ×1.31 | 145 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.
