Dark Humor games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Dark Humor on Steam: 4,077 released games, 1,486 in the last 12 months, 2,127 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 included1,742 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsDark Humor × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heist | 9 | 4 | 414 | under 20 | 18.4% | cliché ×2.20 | 250 d |    | |
| Underwater | 9 | 1 | 73 | under 20 | 18.4% | ordinary ×0.55 | 431 d |    | |
| Shop Keeper | 23 | 17 | 96 | 26.1% 13%–46% | 17.1% | cliché ×1.99 | 145 d |    | |
| Zombies | 68 | 21 | 18 | 19.1% 12%–30% | 16.3% | cliché ×1.56 | 222 d |    | |
| Military | 23 | 6 | 44 | 21.7% 10%–42% | 14.7% | ordinary ×0.59 | 274 d |   | |
| Job Simulator | 17 | 11 | 159 | under 20 | 14.4% | cliché ×1.99 | 145 d |   | |
| Villain Protagonist | 11 | 2 | 118 | under 20 | 14.0% | cliché ×7.88 | 708 d |    | |
| Dating Sim | 97 | 30 | 29 | 15.5% 10%–24% | 14.0% | ordinary ×1.45 | 166 d |    | |
| Crime | 79 | 29 | 24 | 15.2% 9%–25% | 13.5% | cliché ×3.46 | 250 d |   | |
| Faith | 13 | 3 | 34 | under 20 | 13.1% | cliché ×1.52 | 105 d |    | |
| Psychological Horror | 326 | 105 | 26 | 13.5% 10%–18% | 13.1% | cliché ×2.33 | 145 d |    | |
| Noir | 45 | 18 | 18 | 15.6% 8%–29% | 12.8% | cliché ×3.20 | 250 d |   | |
| Mystery | 183 | 67 | 24 | 13.1% 9%–19% | 12.5% | ordinary ×1.42 | 112 d |   | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 79 | 32 | 15 | 13.9% 8%–23% | 12.5% | cliché ×1.63 | 197 d |  | |
| Vampires | 23 | 10 | 10 | 17.4% 7%–37% | 12.4% | cliché ×2.25 | 237 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.
