Fighting games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Fighting on Steam: 1,519 released games, 225 in the last 12 months, 416 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anime | 38 | 7 | 134 | 36.8% 23%–53% | 26.4% | cliché ×1.74 | 166 d |    | |
| Gore | 23 | 8 | 272 | 43.5% 26%–63% | 26.4% | cliché ×2.38 | 111 d |    | |
| VR | 16 | 1 | 35 | under 20 | 20.4% | ordinary ×1.38 | 453 d |   | |
| Violent | 31 | 8 | 56 | 29.0% 16%–47% | 20.3% | cliché ×2.46 | 111 d |  | |
| 3D | 109 | 36 | 18 | 20.2% 14%–29% | 18.1% | ordinary ×0.98 | 111 d |  | |
| Difficult | 21 | 4 | 16 | 28.6% 14%–50% | 17.9% | cliché ×1.81 | 257 d |  | |
| Story Rich | 29 | 11 | 43 | 24.1% 12%–42% | 17.0% | ordinary ×0.60 | 166 d |    | |
| 2.5D | 24 | 6 | 35 | 25.0% 12%–45% | 16.7% | cliché ×2.45 | 670 d |   | |
| First-Person | 30 | 7 | 14 | 23.3% 12%–41% | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.56 | 256 d | | |
| Comic Book | 19 | 4 | 117 | under 20 | 16.2% | cliché ×2.43 | 166 d |   | |
| Third Person | 58 | 20 | 20 | 19.0% 11%–31% | 15.8% | cliché ×1.93 | 152 d | | |
| Atmospheric | 23 | 6 | 44 | 21.7% 10%–42% | 14.7% | ordinary ×0.49 | 152 d |    | |
| Realistic | 26 | 8 | 44 | 19.2% 9%–38% | 13.8% | ordinary ×0.79 | 256 d |  | |
| Cinematic | 12 | 4 | 44 | under 20 | 13.5% | ordinary ×0.73 | 152 d |   | |
| Pixel Graphics | 55 | 14 | 15 | 14.5% 8%–26% | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.07 | 434 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.
