Escape Room games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Escape Room on Steam: 781 released games, 207 in the last 12 months, 239 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 13. 44% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Escape Room 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 included332 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsEscape Room × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Escape Room at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Escape Room × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Underwater | 8 | 1 | 29 | under 20 | 15.5% | cliché ×1.81 | 628 d |    | |
| Psychological Horror | 106 | 25 | 27 | 17.0% 11%–25% | 15.3% | cliché ×3.76 | 174 d |   | |
| Survival Horror | 56 | 15 | 26 | 16.1% 9%–28% | 13.6% | cliché ×2.99 | 174 d |   | |
| Cats | 7 | 2 | 59 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.83 | 245 d |   | |
| Noir | 7 | 2 | 119 | under 20 | 12.3% | cliché ×2.74 | 700 d |  | |
| 1990's | 16 | 3 | 11 | under 20 | 12.0% | ordinary ×1.35 | 174 d |    | |
| Horror | 133 | 33 | 19 | 11.3% 7%–18% | 10.7% | cliché ×3.51 | 174 d | | |
| Zombies | 5 | 1 | 13 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.40 | 539 d |  | |
| Female Protagonist | 27 | 6 | 32 | 11.1% 4%–28% | 9.2% | ordinary ×1.26 | 179 d |   | |
| Nature | 7 | 3 | 23 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×0.39 | 245 d | | |
| Lovecraftian | 8 | 1 | 13 | under 20 | 8.3% | cliché ×2.95 | 385 d |  | |
| Space | 8 | 2 | 19 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.46 | 175 d |  | |
| Science | 9 | 2 | 43 | under 20 | 8.0% | cliché ×2.35 | 385 d | | |
| Mystery | 185 | 56 | 14 | 8.1% 5%–13% | 8.0% | cliché ×6.63 | 174 d |   | |
| Dark Fantasy | 10 | 3 | 7 | under 20 | 7.8% | ordinary ×0.63 | 700 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.
