Fighting games on Steam
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Fighting on Steam: 1,519 released games, 225 in the last 12 months, 417 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 15. 39% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. Fighting 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 reviewsFighting × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Fighting at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Fighting × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medieval | 18 | 5 | 45 | under 20 | 19.3% | ordinary ×1.27 | 256 d |    | |
| Superhero | 6 | 2 | 4 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×7.27 | 166 d |    | |
| Wrestling | 12 | 1 | 75 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×22.07 | 215 d |    | |
| Ninja | 18 | 7 | 117 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×8.76 | 111 d |    | |
| Fantasy | 53 | 18 | 15 | 18.9% 11%–31% | 15.5% | ordinary ×1.11 | 369 d |   | |
| 1990's | 17 | 7 | 52 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.15 | 188 d |   | |
| Historical | 11 | 3 | 83 | under 20 | 14.0% | ordinary ×1.04 | 256 d |   | |
| LGBTQ+ | 6 | 1 | 21 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.53 | 579 d |  | |
| Dark Fantasy | 15 | 6 | 52 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.89 | 152 d |   | |
| Crime | 7 | 3 | 44 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×1.09 | 257 d |   | |
| Military | 7 | 0 | 83 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.74 | 769 d |  | |
| Martial Arts | 49 | 7 | 16 | 14.3% 7%–27% | 12.1% | cliché ×19.27 | 349 d |   | |
| Female Protagonist | 25 | 7 | 32 | 16.0% 6%–35% | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.88 | 111 d |   | |
| Sports | 35 | 10 | 14 | 14.3% 6%–29% | 11.5% | cliché ×3.24 | 215 d |  | |
| War | 9 | 1 | 83 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×1.07 | 769 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.
