Detective games on Steam
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Detective on Steam: 4,073 released games, 1,345 in the last 12 months, 1,924 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 47% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 8%. Detective 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 included1,752 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsDetective × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Detective at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Detective × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandbox | 24 | 12 | 56 | 25.0% 12%–45% | 16.7% | avoided ×0.29 | 176 d |    | |
| Immersive Sim | 184 | 58 | 20 | 14.7% 10%–21% | 13.9% | cliché ×1.82 | 176 d |   | |
| Typing | 33 | 16 | 31 | 18.2% 9%–34% | 13.8% | cliché ×2.63 | 335 d |    | |
| Character Customization | 48 | 17 | 14 | 16.7% 9%–30% | 13.7% | ordinary ×0.44 | 222 d |   | |
| Open World | 58 | 21 | 15 | 15.5% 8%–27% | 13.2% | ordinary ×0.60 | 222 d | | |
| Trains | 13 | 3 | 45 | under 20 | 13.1% | cliché ×1.51 | 691 d |    | |
| Dating Sim | 74 | 19 | 37 | 14.9% 9%–25% | 13.1% | ordinary ×1.15 | 231 d |   | |
| Co-op Campaign | 6 | 3 | 3 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.81 | 351 d |  | |
| Martial Arts | 6 | 2 | 116 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.41 | 596 d |  | |
| Turn-Based Combat | 22 | 5 | 34 | 18.2% 7%–39% | 12.7% | ordinary ×0.36 | 231 d |   | |
| Hacking | 30 | 7 | 20 | 16.7% 7%–34% | 12.7% | cliché ×4.16 | 516 d |   | |
| CRPG | 46 | 9 | 17 | 15.2% 8%–28% | 12.6% | cliché ×1.75 | 286 d |   | |
| JRPG | 39 | 12 | 33 | 15.4% 7%–30% | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.84 | 231 d |    | |
| Political Sim | 8 | 3 | 22 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×1.33 | 176 d |   | |
| Nonlinear | 79 | 27 | 31 | 12.7% 7%–22% | 11.4% | cliché ×2.24 | 91 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.
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