The niche at a glance
Dogs on Steam: 1,129 released games, 359 in the last 12 months, 408 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 12. 45% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Dogs 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 included531 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsDogs × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Dogs at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Dogs × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Realistic | 29 | 8 | 29 | 20.7% 10%–38% | 15.0% | ordinary ×0.82 | 187 d |    | |
| VR | 5 | 1 | 268 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.56 | 306 d |  | |
| Violent | 8 | 3 | 19 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.39 | 704 d |   | |
| Atmospheric | 116 | 32 | 20 | 12.1% 7%–19% | 11.3% | ordinary ×1.16 | 176 d |    | |
| First-Person | 52 | 13 | 27 | 11.5% 5%–23% | 10.2% | ordinary ×0.72 | 176 d |  | |
| Story Rich | 92 | 24 | 27 | 10.9% 6%–19% | 10.1% | ordinary ×1.14 | 187 d | | |
| Emotional | 54 | 14 | 31 | 11.1% 5%–22% | 9.9% | cliché ×2.27 | 341 d | | |
| Cinematic | 7 | 1 | 4 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×0.72 | 851 d |  | |
| Isometric | 20 | 4 | 18 | 10.0% 3%–30% | 8.3% | ordinary ×1.17 | 684 d |   | |
| Lore-Rich | 8 | 3 | 19 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.99 | 704 d | | |
| Narrative | 9 | 2 | 80 | under 20 | 8.0% | ordinary ×1.49 | 788 d |  | |
| Music | 10 | 1 | 24 | under 20 | 7.8% | ordinary ×1.28 | 872 d |  | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 23 | 5 | 19 | 8.7% 2%–27% | 7.8% | ordinary ×1.45 | 508 d |  | |
| Funny | 146 | 45 | 13 | 7.5% 4%–13% | 7.4% | cliché ×2.43 | 176 d |  | |
| Short | 12 | 1 | 27 | under 20 | 7.3% | cliché ×1.85 | 459 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.
