Fast-Paced games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Fast-Paced on Steam: 2,868 released games, 697 in the last 12 months, 954 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 45% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Fast-Paced 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 included743 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsFast-Paced × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Fast-Paced at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Fast-Paced × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female Protagonist | 39 | 16 | 43 | 25.6% 15%–41% | 19.2% | ordinary ×0.68 | 154 d |    | |
| 1990's | 43 | 14 | 47 | 20.9% 11%–35% | 16.4% | ordinary ×1.47 | 154 d |    | |
| Psychological Horror | 13 | 3 | 116 | under 20 | 16.2% | avoided ×0.32 | 196 d |   | |
| Horror | 45 | 17 | 34 | 20.0% 11%–34% | 15.9% | ordinary ×0.57 | 145 d |    | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 28 | 6 | 31 | 21.4% 10%–40% | 15.3% | ordinary ×0.96 | 391 d |    | |
| Noir | 9 | 3 | 114 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×0.87 | 154 d |    | |
| Cyberpunk | 47 | 14 | 20 | 17.0% 9%–30% | 13.9% | cliché ×3.22 | 358 d |  | |
| Sci-fi | 138 | 56 | 13 | 13.8% 9%–21% | 12.9% | cliché ×2.02 | 111 d |   | |
| Military | 15 | 4 | 35 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.90 | 448 d |   | |
| Crime | 7 | 3 | 7 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.69 | 154 d | | |
| Lovecraftian | 7 | 1 | 85 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.80 | 398 d |   | |
| Skating | 7 | 3 | 36 | under 20 | 12.3% | cliché ×5.50 | 90 d |   | |
| LGBTQ+ | 8 | 3 | 16 | under 20 | 11.9% | avoided ×0.22 | 257 d |   | |
| Nature | 19 | 6 | 10 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.37 | 357 d |   | |
| Robots | 46 | 13 | 28 | 13.0% 6%–26% | 11.1% | cliché ×2.57 | 257 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.
