Grand Strategy games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Grand Strategy on Steam: 1,573 released games, 490 in the last 12 months, 612 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 13. 42% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Grand Strategy 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 included578 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsGrand Strategy × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Grand Strategy at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Grand Strategy × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anime | 12 | 3 | 43 | under 20 | 13.5% | avoided ×0.32 | 152 d |    | |
| Violent | 5 | 1 | 27 | under 20 | 13.3% | avoided ×0.33 | 383 d |   | |
| Story Rich | 40 | 18 | 19 | 15.0% 7%–29% | 12.2% | ordinary ×0.50 | 356 d |  | |
| Cinematic | 10 | 5 | 22 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.90 | 343 d |  | |
| Realistic | 59 | 22 | 25 | 11.9% 6%–23% | 10.5% | ordinary ×1.38 | 259 d |   | |
| Difficult | 5 | 1 | 3 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.47 | 964 d |  | |
| Voxel | 5 | 1 | 110 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×1.19 | 447 d | | |
| Horror | 16 | 4 | 2 | under 20 | 9.3% | avoided ×0.20 | 704 d |  | |
| 3D | 159 | 53 | 14 | 8.8% 5%–14% | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.11 | 259 d |  | |
| 2.5D | 33 | 7 | 14 | 9.1% 3%–24% | 8.2% | ordinary ×1.36 | 152 d |   | |
| Hand-drawn | 22 | 6 | 25 | 9.1% 3%–28% | 7.9% | ordinary ×0.63 | 713 d |  | |
| Isometric | 22 | 7 | 25 | 9.1% 3%–28% | 7.9% | cliché ×1.68 | 544 d |  | |
| Stylized | 54 | 23 | 13 | 7.4% 3%–18% | 7.2% | ordinary ×0.80 | 152 d |    | |
| Relaxing | 31 | 15 | 12 | 6.5% 2%–21% | 6.5% | ordinary ×0.41 | 530 d |   | |
| Atmospheric | 62 | 29 | 10 | 6.5% 3%–15% | 6.5% | ordinary ×0.57 | 447 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.
