The niche at a glance

Free to Play on Steam: 14,555 released games, 3,057 in the last 12 months, 3,265 announced and still unreleased. Of the 6,612 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 25 lifetime reviews. 23% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 91%. Free to Play 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 included6,612 releases
p106
p2510
median25
p7583
p90338
23% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $6.99 · 91% free-to-play

Releases per year

outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews
2019
841median 105 · 5% under 10 reviews
2020
1,012median 89 · 4% under 10 reviews
2021
919median 82 · 3% under 10 reviews
2022
1,066median 63 · 4% under 10 reviews
2023
1,178median 50 · 8% under 10 reviews
2024
2,301median 35 · 12% under 10 reviews
2025
2,418median 24 · 23% under 10 reviews
2026
2,602median 14 · 39% under 10 reviews · 896 too fresh