FMV games on Steam
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FMV on Steam: 1,094 released games, 320 in the last 12 months, 337 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 70. 29% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 6%. FMV 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 included538 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsFMV × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with FMV at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| FMV × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dating Sim | 228 | 80 | 207 | 28.9% 23%–35% | 27.2% | cliché ×8.14 | 90 d |    | |
| Female Protagonist | 107 | 43 | 188 | 29.9% 22%–39% | 26.2% | cliché ×2.17 | 127 d |  | |
| Romance | 153 | 49 | 224 | 28.8% 22%–36% | 26.2% | cliché ×4.40 | 111 d |  | |
| War | 13 | 2 | 381 | under 20 | 22.2% | ordinary ×0.70 | 168 d |    | |
| Mystery | 81 | 21 | 188 | 25.9% 18%–36% | 22.1% | cliché ×2.48 | 277 d |   | |
| Detective | 34 | 12 | 114 | 29.4% 17%–46% | 21.0% | cliché ×3.94 | 293 d |   | |
| Historical | 15 | 4 | 126 | under 20 | 21.0% | ordinary ×1.21 | 400 d |   | |
| Military | 11 | 2 | 44 | under 20 | 20.4% | ordinary ×0.82 | 211 d | | |
| Modern | 33 | 8 | 161 | 24.2% 13%–41% | 17.6% | cliché ×4.24 | 169 d |  | |
| Crime | 22 | 8 | 120 | 27.3% 13%–48% | 17.5% | cliché ×4.01 | 117 d |  | |
| Robots | 5 | 2 | 507 | under 20 | 17.3% | ordinary ×0.42 | 215 d |    | |
| Alternate History | 17 | 2 | 129 | under 20 | 17.1% | cliché ×2.23 | 168 d |   | |
| Sci-fi | 43 | 14 | 117 | 20.9% 11%–35% | 16.4% | ordinary ×1.28 | 211 d |  ![City Lights Love Bites Season 0 [Pilot Season]](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3011560/8b9a6e391e26c1619b0e55fd49c4a345be09d4f0/capsule_231x87.jpg){kind=small}  | |
| 1990's | 32 | 11 | 59 | 21.9% 11%–39% | 16.0% | cliché ×2.43 | 166 d |   | |
| Thriller | 42 | 13 | 101 | 19.0% 10%–33% | 15.1% | cliché ×3.19 | 137 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.
