Dialogue Heavy games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Dialogue Heavy on Steam: 4,398 released games, 1,706 in the last 12 months, 2,684 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 included2,109 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsDialogue Heavy × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 ×1.44 | 431 d |    | |
| Dystopian | 22 | 7 | 59 | 22.7% 10%–43% | 15.1% | cliché ×2.60 | 251 d |    | |
| World War II | 12 | 5 | 25 | under 20 | 13.5% | ordinary ×0.89 | 200 d |    | |
| Job Simulator | 15 | 7 | 131 | under 20 | 12.4% | cliché ×1.70 | 393 d |    | |
| 1990's | 89 | 29 | 42 | 13.5% 8%–22% | 12.2% | ordinary ×1.13 | 145 d |   | |
| Cyberpunk | 65 | 20 | 16 | 13.8% 7%–24% | 12.2% | ordinary ×1.36 | 251 d |   | |
| LGBTQ+ | 162 | 46 | 25 | 11.7% 8%–18% | 11.2% | cliché ×3.35 | 138 d |   | |
| Space Sim | 10 | 5 | 17 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.50 | 237 d |   | |
| Underwater | 12 | 2 | 3 | under 20 | 10.4% | ordinary ×0.89 | 431 d |   | |
| Space | 74 | 25 | 11 | 10.8% 6%–20% | 9.9% | ordinary ×0.69 | 237 d |   | |
| Transhumanism | 24 | 4 | 14 | 12.5% 4%–31% | 9.8% | cliché ×4.28 | 614 d |  | |
| Martial Arts | 15 | 5 | 30 | under 20 | 9.5% | ordinary ×0.70 | 342 d |   | |
| Psychological Horror | 280 | 110 | 34 | 9.6% 7%–14% | 9.4% | cliché ×1.76 | 222 d |  | |
| Sci-fi | 208 | 62 | 15 | 9.6% 6%–14% | 9.4% | ordinary ×1.03 | 110 d | | |
| Espionage | 5 | 5 | 65 | under 20 | 9.3% | cliché ×3.77 | 145 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.
