Exploration games on Steam
Exploration on Steam: 26,416 released games, 9,142 in the last 12 months, 15,379 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 13. 46% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Exploration 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 included12,729 releasesp100
p250
median13
p7559
p90348
46% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $6.99 · 10% free-to-play
Releases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago — anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2019
547med 73 · 19% unseen
2020
1,075med 38 · 25% unseen
2021
2,075med 24 · 33% unseen
2022
2,265med 23 · 32% unseen
2023
2,790med 20 · 35% unseen
2024
3,925med 18 · 39% unseen
2025
4,541med 15 · 43% unseen
2026
4,967med 0 · 64% unseen · 1,658 too fresh
Best known here
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Latest releases
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