The niche at a glance
Dice on Steam: 312 released games, 244 in the last 12 months, 265 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 15. 45% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 5%. Dice 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 included130 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsDice × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Dice at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Dice × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Difficult | 13 | 8 | 24 | under 20 | 13.2% | cliché ×1.60 | 212 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 17 | 8 | 60 | under 20 | 11.7% | ordinary ×0.67 | 198 d |    | |
| Pixel Graphics | 31 | 23 | 18 | 12.9% 5%–29% | 10.5% | ordinary ×1.45 | 148 d |   | |
| Hand-drawn | 23 | 12 | 53 | 13.0% 5%–32% | 10.1% | cliché ×1.91 | 198 d |  | |
| Relaxing | 23 | 18 | 22 | 13.0% 5%–32% | 10.1% | ordinary ×1.12 | 212 d | | |
| First-Person | 10 | 7 | 11 | under 20 | 7.8% | ordinary ×0.41 | 735 d | | |
| Stylized | 23 | 16 | 22 | 8.7% 2%–27% | 7.8% | cliché ×1.72 | 212 d | | |
| Top-Down | 12 | 11 | 3 | under 20 | 7.3% | ordinary ×0.88 | 287 d | | |
| Colorful | 27 | 16 | 8 | 7.4% 2%–23% | 7.1% | ordinary ×1.09 | 321 d | | |
| Atmospheric | 13 | 10 | 58 | under 20 | 7.1% | ordinary ×0.68 | 621 d | | |
| Minimalist | 14 | 7 | 8 | under 20 | 6.9% | ordinary ×1.09 | 287 d | | |
| Cute | 15 | 10 | 40 | under 20 | 6.7% | ordinary ×0.68 | 321 d | | |
| Funny | 15 | 11 | 31 | under 20 | 6.7% | ordinary ×0.77 | 231 d | | |
| 2D | 67 | 40 | 11 | 6.0% 2%–14% | 6.1% | ordinary ×1.38 | 148 d | | |
| Anime | 6 | 4 | 46 | under 20 | 5.2% | avoided ×0.33 | never |
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.
