Cooking games on Steam
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Cooking on Steam: 1,884 released games, 961 in the last 12 months, 1,374 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 15. 43% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Cooking 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 included931 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsCooking × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Cooking at least 5 times · same window| Cooking × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cozy | 100 | 51 | 69 | 24.0% 17%–33% | 21.1% | cliché ×5.95 | 124 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 137 | 43 | 50 | 21.9% 16%–30% | 20.0% | ordinary ×1.00 | 124 d |   | |
| Short | 9 | 2 | 147 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×0.52 | 610 d |  ![[Bober Bros] The Hole](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3037930/9cbf747eb97b9e3d77f96a3548813ba2d14fe325/capsule_231x87.jpg){kind=small}  | |
| Anime | 90 | 34 | 28 | 16.7% 10%–26% | 14.8% | ordinary ×0.93 | 189 d |   | |
| Memes | 10 | 4 | 100 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.10 | 816 d |    | |
| Thriller | 10 | 3 | 70 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×0.50 | 677 d |  | |
| Wholesome | 31 | 17 | 66 | 19.4% 9%–36% | 14.4% | cliché ×4.23 | 189 d |    | |
| Lore-Rich | 25 | 7 | 50 | 20.0% 9%–39% | 14.1% | ordinary ×1.07 | 614 d |    | |
| Difficult | 20 | 4 | 22 | 20.0% 8%–42% | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.49 | 328 d |    | |
| Dark | 28 | 9 | 66 | 17.9% 8%–36% | 13.2% | ordinary ×0.43 | 448 d |   | |
| First-Person | 213 | 96 | 37 | 13.6% 10%–19% | 13.0% | cliché ×1.74 | 118 d |  | |
| Atmospheric | 167 | 72 | 30 | 13.8% 9%–20% | 13.0% | ordinary ×1.02 | 118 d | | |
| Relaxing | 300 | 126 | 34 | 13.3% 10%–18% | 12.9% | cliché ×2.78 | 124 d |  | |
| Comic Book | 22 | 9 | 11 | 18.2% 7%–39% | 12.7% | ordinary ×0.75 | 405 d |    | |
| Emotional | 40 | 10 | 56 | 15.0% 7%–29% | 12.2% | ordinary ×1.13 | 405 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.
