Dark Humor games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Dark Humor on Steam: 4,070 released games, 1,482 in the last 12 months, 2,124 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 15. 42% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Dark Humor 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 included1,741 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsDark Humor × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Dark Humor at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Dark Humor × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gun Customization | 16 | 5 | 158 | under 20 | 23.1% | ordinary ×1.14 | 243 d |    | |
| City Builder | 14 | 5 | 153 | under 20 | 21.6% | ordinary ×0.54 | 151 d |    | |
| Building | 42 | 15 | 64 | 28.6% 17%–44% | 21.5% | ordinary ×0.61 | 126 d |    | |
| Heist | 9 | 4 | 414 | under 20 | 18.4% | cliché ×2.16 | 250 d |    | |
| Procedural Generation | 58 | 23 | 26 | 22.4% 14%–35% | 18.4% | ordinary ×0.80 | 130 d |   | |
| Typing | 16 | 3 | 34 | under 20 | 17.6% | ordinary ×1.32 | 305 d |    | |
| Shop Keeper | 23 | 17 | 96 | 26.1% 13%–46% | 17.1% | cliché ×1.98 | 145 d |  | |
| Tactical | 45 | 13 | 16 | 20.0% 11%–34% | 15.9% | ordinary ×0.60 | 197 d |    | |
| Third-Person Shooter | 39 | 8 | 103 | 20.5% 11%–36% | 15.8% | ordinary ×1.07 | 243 d |    | |
| Roguelite | 154 | 62 | 24 | 16.9% 12%–24% | 15.7% | ordinary ×1.26 | 105 d |  | |
| Sandbox | 92 | 30 | 60 | 17.4% 11%–26% | 15.5% | ordinary ×0.93 | 130 d |    | |
| Crafting | 60 | 28 | 44 | 18.3% 11%–30% | 15.4% | ordinary ×0.75 | 126 d |  | |
| Management | 120 | 58 | 26 | 16.7% 11%–24% | 15.2% | ordinary ×1.36 | 126 d | | |
| Base Building | 49 | 17 | 31 | 18.4% 10%–31% | 15.0% | ordinary ×0.82 | 151 d | | |
| Character Customization | 97 | 33 | 19 | 16.5% 10%–25% | 14.8% | ordinary ×1.07 | 130 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.
