Dystopian games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Dystopian on Steam: 2,856 released games, 1,090 in the last 12 months, 1,919 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 48% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Dystopian 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 included1,218 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsDystopian × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Dystopian at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Dystopian × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gun Customization | 20 | 10 | 31 | 35.0% 18%–57% | 20.8% | cliché ×2.89 | 173 d |    | |
| Management | 38 | 23 | 33 | 23.7% 13%–39% | 17.8% | ordinary ×1.05 | 301 d |    | |
| Choices Matter | 113 | 44 | 23 | 18.6% 12%–27% | 16.8% | cliché ×2.27 | 116 d |   | |
| Simulation | 138 | 50 | 35 | 18.1% 13%–25% | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.91 | 116 d |   | |
| Incremental | 37 | 19 | 27 | 21.6% 11%–37% | 16.4% | ordinary ×0.80 | 297 d |    | |
| Point & Click | 63 | 22 | 21 | 19.0% 11%–30% | 16.1% | cliché ×1.76 | 116 d |  | |
| Typing | 7 | 4 | 96 | under 20 | 16.0% | cliché ×2.01 | 187 d |    | |
| Turn-Based Strategy | 32 | 15 | 11 | 21.9% 11%–39% | 16.0% | ordinary ×1.02 | 131 d |   | |
| Strategy | 117 | 39 | 15 | 17.1% 11%–25% | 15.6% | ordinary ×0.81 | 131 d | | |
| City Builder | 8 | 3 | 8 | under 20 | 15.5% | ordinary ×0.58 | 453 d |   | |
| Word Game | 8 | 4 | 37 | under 20 | 15.5% | ordinary ×0.98 | 131 d |  | |
| Crafting | 21 | 8 | 13 | 23.8% 11%–45% | 15.4% | ordinary ×0.89 | 218 d |    | |
| Multiple Endings | 126 | 50 | 22 | 16.7% 11%–24% | 15.3% | cliché ×2.37 | 116 d |  | |
| Colony Sim | 9 | 2 | 35 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×1.16 | 453 d |  | |
| RPG | 124 | 40 | 24 | 16.1% 11%–24% | 14.8% | ordinary ×1.11 | 92 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.
