Elves games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Elves on Steam: 182 released games, 128 in the last 12 months, 114 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 4. 61% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Elves 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 included79 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsElves × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Elves at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Elves × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incremental | 5 | 4 | 22 | under 20 | 9.3% | cliché ×1.73 | 249 d |  | |
| Arcade | 8 | 4 | 4 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.63 | 249 d | | |
| Hidden Object | 8 | 5 | 22 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×1.31 | 246 d |  | |
| Multiple Endings | 9 | 4 | 8 | under 20 | 8.0% | ordinary ×1.32 | 249 d | | |
| Point & Click | 10 | 8 | 8 | under 20 | 7.8% | cliché ×1.80 | 246 d | | |
| Dating Sim | 14 | 5 | 17 | under 20 | 6.9% | cliché ×2.31 | 249 d | | |
| Exploration | 14 | 11 | 4 | under 20 | 6.9% | ordinary ×1.05 | 246 d | | |
| Visual Novel | 22 | 10 | 19 | 4.5% 1%–22% | 5.6% | cliché ×2.42 | 249 d | | |
| Character Customization | 5 | 2 | 3 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×1.02 | never | ||
| Dungeon Crawler | 5 | 5 | 4 | under 20 | 5.3% | cliché ×2.10 | never | ||
| Open World | 5 | 5 | 4 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×1.27 | never | ||
| Platformer | 5 | 5 | 2 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×0.77 | never | ||
| Turn-Based Combat | 5 | 4 | 15 | under 20 | 5.3% | cliché ×1.68 | never | ||
| Action RPG | 6 | 6 | 1 | under 20 | 5.1% | cliché ×1.88 | never | ||
| Choose Your Own Adventure | 6 | 3 | 4 | under 20 | 5.1% | cliché ×2.08 | 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.
