Dialogue Heavy games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Dialogue Heavy on Steam: 4,400 released games, 1,706 in the last 12 months, 2,685 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 14. 43% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. Dialogue Heavy 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 included2,110 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsDialogue Heavy × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Dialogue Heavy at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Dialogue Heavy × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fishing | 16 | 4 | 27 | under 20 | 17.6% | ordinary ×1.43 | 431 d |    | |
| Driving | 26 | 7 | 46 | 23.1% 11%–42% | 15.9% | ordinary ×0.66 | 502 d |    | |
| Automobile Sim | 11 | 2 | 160 | under 20 | 14.0% | ordinary ×0.57 | 502 d |  | |
| Tactical | 42 | 19 | 13 | 16.7% 8%–31% | 13.4% | ordinary ×0.39 | 237 d |    | |
| Gambling | 20 | 7 | 72 | 20.0% 8%–42% | 13.3% | ordinary ×1.00 | 222 d |   | |
| Time Manipulation | 20 | 5 | 13 | 20.0% 8%–42% | 13.3% | cliché ×1.56 | 196 d |    | |
| Character Customization | 156 | 55 | 37 | 14.1% 10%–20% | 13.3% | ordinary ×1.26 | 130 d |   | |
| Souls-like | 13 | 5 | 121 | under 20 | 13.1% | ordinary ×0.46 | 248 d |    | |
| Boomer Shooter | 6 | 3 | 14 | under 20 | 12.8% | avoided ×0.23 | 357 d |   | |
| Minigames | 14 | 5 | 27 | under 20 | 12.7% | cliché ×1.80 | 525 d |   | |
| FPS | 62 | 24 | 19 | 14.5% 8%–25% | 12.6% | ordinary ×0.53 | 243 d |  | |
| Open World | 102 | 35 | 17 | 13.7% 8%–22% | 12.6% | ordinary ×1.03 | 126 d | | |
| CRPG | 63 | 22 | 27 | 14.3% 8%–25% | 12.4% | cliché ×2.53 | 126 d |   | |
| Hack and Slash | 23 | 4 | 22 | 17.4% 7%–37% | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.43 | 531 d |  | |
| Job Simulator | 15 | 7 | 131 | under 20 | 12.4% | cliché ×1.67 | 393 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.
