Destruction games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Destruction on Steam: 2,153 released games, 753 in the last 12 months, 1,249 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 8. 51% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Destruction 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 included803 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsDestruction × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Destruction at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Destruction × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Science | 16 | 4 | 26 | under 20 | 23.2% | cliché ×2.00 | 546 d |    | |
| World War II | 11 | 3 | 312 | under 20 | 17.2% | cliché ×1.88 | 174 d |    | |
| Modern | 31 | 16 | 10 | 22.6% 11%–40% | 16.4% | cliché ×1.57 | 174 d |    | |
| Mining | 40 | 22 | 21 | 20.0% 10%–35% | 15.6% | cliché ×5.28 | 132 d |   | |
| Cold War | 8 | 3 | 14 | under 20 | 15.5% | cliché ×3.57 | 537 d |    | |
| Historical | 23 | 4 | 37 | 21.7% 10%–42% | 14.7% | ordinary ×0.84 | 222 d |  | |
| Psychological Horror | 25 | 7 | 34 | 20.0% 9%–39% | 14.1% | avoided ×0.26 | 90 d |    | |
| Underground | 18 | 10 | 12 | under 20 | 14.1% | cliché ×2.79 | 132 d |    | |
| Mechs | 26 | 7 | 10 | 19.2% 9%–38% | 13.8% | cliché ×4.42 | 352 d |    | |
| Tanks | 23 | 7 | 10 | 17.4% 7%–37% | 12.4% | cliché ×7.99 | 352 d |  | |
| Artificial Intelligence | 15 | 4 | 3 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.19 | 369 d |  | |
| Survival Horror | 15 | 4 | 16 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.37 | 90 d |  | |
| War | 73 | 22 | 11 | 13.7% 8%–23% | 12.2% | cliché ×3.37 | 174 d | | |
| Military | 60 | 18 | 21 | 13.3% 7%–24% | 11.7% | cliché ×3.84 | 174 d | | |
| Transportation | 9 | 2 | 12 | under 20 | 11.5% | cliché ×2.03 | 512 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.
