Destruction games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Destruction on Steam: 2,152 released games, 752 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Realistic | 107 | 31 | 18 | 19.6% 13%–28% | 17.6% | cliché ×1.59 | 90 d |    | |
| Difficult | 38 | 8 | 14 | 21.1% 11%–36% | 16.1% | ordinary ×0.96 | 250 d |    | |
| Atmospheric | 127 | 38 | 13 | 17.3% 12%–25% | 15.9% | ordinary ×0.81 | 90 d | | |
| Cinematic | 33 | 11 | 6 | 21.2% 11%–38% | 15.7% | ordinary ×1.24 | 215 d |    | |
| First-Person | 179 | 58 | 25 | 14.5% 10%–20% | 13.7% | ordinary ×1.37 | 90 d |  | |
| Relaxing | 110 | 50 | 14 | 13.6% 8%–21% | 12.6% | ordinary ×1.00 | 132 d |    | |
| Cozy | 7 | 5 | 27 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.46 | 132 d |   | |
| Experimental | 7 | 0 | 14 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.25 | 401 d |   | |
| VR | 40 | 12 | 6 | 15.0% 7%–29% | 12.2% | ordinary ×1.26 | 102 d |   | |
| Abstract | 32 | 11 | 7 | 15.6% 7%–32% | 12.2% | ordinary ×1.28 | 132 d |  | |
| Gore | 44 | 13 | 19 | 13.6% 6%–27% | 11.5% | ordinary ×1.20 | 250 d |   | |
| Horror | 44 | 11 | 11 | 13.6% 6%–27% | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.42 | 622 d |   | |
| Violent | 45 | 12 | 19 | 13.3% 6%–26% | 11.3% | ordinary ×1.22 | 250 d |  | |
| Memes | 20 | 4 | 23 | 15.0% 5%–36% | 10.9% | cliché ×1.92 | 102 d |   | |
| Voxel | 32 | 11 | 31 | 12.5% 5%–28% | 10.3% | cliché ×6.55 | 189 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.
