Crime games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Crime on Steam: 2,329 released games, 914 in the last 12 months, 1,343 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 14. 45% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Crime 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 included980 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsCrime × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Crime at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Crime × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Difficult | 22 | 4 | 182 | 36.4% 20%–57% | 22.2% | ordinary ×0.54 | 154 d |    | |
| FMV | 22 | 8 | 120 | 27.3% 13%–48% | 17.5% | cliché ×4.01 | 117 d |    | |
| Funny | 125 | 50 | 24 | 17.6% 12%–25% | 16.1% | ordinary ×1.19 | 244 d |    | |
| Realistic | 217 | 73 | 30 | 16.6% 12%–22% | 15.8% | cliché ×2.42 | 117 d |   | |
| Atmospheric | 289 | 101 | 34 | 16.3% 12%–21% | 15.6% | cliché ×1.69 | 117 d | | |
| Narrative | 36 | 16 | 65 | 19.4% 10%–35% | 14.9% | cliché ×4.03 | 125 d |   | |
| Memes | 16 | 6 | 25 | under 20 | 14.8% | cliché ×1.53 | 167 d |    | |
| Anime | 131 | 36 | 29 | 16.0% 11%–23% | 14.8% | ordinary ×1.05 | 117 d |   | |
| Cinematic | 111 | 29 | 28 | 16.2% 11%–24% | 14.8% | cliché ×3.46 | 117 d |  | |
| Gore | 85 | 38 | 21 | 16.5% 10%–26% | 14.6% | cliché ×2.00 | 154 d |  | |
| Gothic | 10 | 3 | 28 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.38 | 328 d |   | |
| Philosophical | 17 | 6 | 24 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.42 | 167 d |   | |
| Violent | 126 | 49 | 21 | 15.1% 10%–22% | 13.9% | cliché ×2.70 | 154 d | | |
| VR | 19 | 4 | 15 | under 20 | 13.7% | ordinary ×0.60 | 502 d |   | |
| Dark Humor | 79 | 29 | 24 | 15.2% 9%–25% | 13.5% | cliché ×3.45 | 250 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.
