Espionage games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Espionage on Steam: 169 released games, 125 in the last 12 months, 135 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 15. 43% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 3%. Espionage 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 included44 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsEspionage × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Espionage at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Espionage × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Story Rich | 22 | 15 | 37 | 31.8% 16%–53% | 19.8% | cliché ×2.51 | 91 d |    | |
| Atmospheric | 7 | 5 | 1,533 | under 20 | 19.8% | cliché ×1.64 | 140 d |  | |
| 3D | 9 | 6 | 19 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×1.08 | 140 d |  | |
| Text-Based | 9 | 5 | 2 | under 20 | 11.5% | cliché ×4.18 | 91 d |  | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 5 | 5 | 65 | under 20 | 9.3% | cliché ×3.77 | 145 d | | |
| Lore-Rich | 5 | 4 | 1 | under 20 | 9.3% | cliché ×3.15 | 140 d | | |
| Funny | 17 | 9 | 25 | under 20 | 9.0% | cliché ×1.59 | 145 d |  | |
| First-Person | 6 | 3 | 25 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×1.35 | 599 d | | |
| Thriller | 6 | 3 | 0 | under 20 | 9.0% | cliché ×3.97 | 145 d | | |
| Dark Humor | 5 | 3 | 0 | under 20 | 5.3% | cliché ×3.16 | never | ||
| Satire | 5 | 1 | 0 | under 20 | 5.3% | cliché ×5.58 | never | ||
| Realistic | 6 | 4 | 6 | under 20 | 5.1% | cliché ×1.80 | never | ||
| Stylized | 6 | 4 | 25 | under 20 | 5.1% | cliché ×1.75 | never | ||
| Linear | 8 | 4 | 1 | under 20 | 4.8% | ordinary ×1.19 | never | ||
| 2D | 9 | 6 | 19 | under 20 | 4.6% | ordinary ×0.95 | 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.
