Detective games on Steam
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Detective on Steam: 4,073 released games, 1,345 in the last 12 months, 1,925 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FMV | 34 | 12 | 114 | 29.4% 17%–46% | 21.0% | cliché ×3.94 | 293 d |    | |
| Narrative | 51 | 19 | 65 | 21.6% 12%–35% | 17.4% | cliché ×3.41 | 161 d |   | |
| Memes | 14 | 5 | 41 | under 20 | 15.7% | ordinary ×0.69 | 167 d |    | |
| Isometric | 24 | 7 | 37 | 20.8% 9%–40% | 14.4% | ordinary ×0.64 | 453 d |   | |
| 2.5D | 42 | 13 | 29 | 16.7% 8%–31% | 13.4% | ordinary ×1.00 | 91 d |   | |
| Cozy | 36 | 12 | 66 | 16.7% 8%–32% | 13.1% | ordinary ×0.75 | 222 d |  | |
| Gothic | 29 | 2 | 18 | 17.2% 8%–35% | 12.9% | cliché ×2.12 | 452 d |    | |
| Cinematic | 154 | 51 | 26 | 13.6% 9%–20% | 12.8% | cliché ×2.85 | 293 d |    | |
| Satire | 14 | 5 | 25 | under 20 | 12.7% | ordinary ×1.33 | 167 d |   | |
| Philosophical | 40 | 11 | 12 | 15.0% 7%–29% | 12.2% | cliché ×1.87 | 167 d |   | |
| Short | 24 | 11 | 24 | 16.7% 7%–36% | 12.1% | ordinary ×1.16 | 509 d |  | |
| Noir | 197 | 74 | 19 | 12.2% 8%–17% | 11.7% | cliché ×12.75 | 176 d |    | |
| Old School | 63 | 25 | 20 | 12.7% 7%–23% | 11.2% | ordinary ×0.82 | 180 d |   | |
| Story Rich | 882 | 290 | 20 | 11.1% 9%–13% | 11.0% | cliché ×3.32 | 91 d | | |
| Difficult | 29 | 9 | 17 | 13.8% 5%–31% | 10.9% | avoided ×0.34 | 277 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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