Competitive games on Steam
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Competitive on Steam: 1,720 released games, 424 in the last 12 months, 562 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 17. 39% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 22%. Competitive 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 included458 releasesp100
p252
median17
p75149
p901,316
39% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $8.99 · 22% free-to-play
Releases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2019
148med 57 · 23% unseen
2020
176med 61 · 21% unseen
2021
93med 122 · 16% unseen
2022
114med 43 · 21% unseen
2023
111med 43 · 23% unseen
2024
130med 27 · 29% unseen
2025
151med 21 · 34% unseen
2026
266med 6 · 57% unseen · 123 too fresh
