Grid-Based Movement games on Steam

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The niche at a glance

Grid-Based Movement on Steam: 2,668 released games, 963 in the last 12 months, 1,209 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 6. 59% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Grid-Based Movement 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 included1,124 releases
p100
p251
median6
p7520
p9082
59% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $4.99 · 9% 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
54med 26 · 24% unseen
2020
105med 12 · 38% unseen
2021
259med 16 · 38% unseen
2022
233med 15 · 41% unseen
2023
273med 12 · 44% unseen
2024
330med 9 · 52% unseen
2025
400med 7 · 55% unseen
2026
579med 1 · 73% unseen · 255 too fresh

Grid-Based Movement × presentation: what the pairings end up with

every presentation tag shipped with Grid-Based Movement at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation
share reaching 500 reviews, shrunk towards the catalogue · click a row to open the concept
Grid-Based Movement ×3 y12 mmedian≥500adjusted vs chancelast hitwho made it
Cinematic10219under 2011.1%
avoided ×0.29949 d
Dawnsbury Days
Classified: France '44
Dawnsbury Days · Classified: France '44
Dialogue Heavy191111under 208.5%
ordinary ×0.59309 d
Passion Industry
Heavy Spoilers RPG: The true identity of the final enemy is the hero's father
Passion Industry · Heavy Spoilers RPG: The true identity of the final enemy is the hero's father
Realistic211049.5% 3%–29%8.1%
avoided ×0.22309 d
Passion Industry
Classified: France '44
Passion Industry · Classified: France '44
Anime4816188.3% 3%–20%7.8%
ordinary ×0.55309 d
Persona 5 Tactica
Passion Industry
Dawnsbury Days
Persona 5 Tactica · Passion Industry · Dawnsbury Days
Story Rich8229117.3% 3%–15%7.2%
ordinary ×0.56624 d
Cobalt Core
Persona 5 Tactica
Those Who Rule
Cobalt Core · Persona 5 Tactica · Those Who Rule
Comic Book14232under 206.9%
ordinary ×0.59487 d
Path of the Abyss
Path of the Abyss
First-Person6219204.8% 2%–13%5.3%
ordinary ×0.42175 d
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors
Path of the Abyss
Wizardry: The Five Ordeals
Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors · Path of the Abyss · Wizardry: The Five Ordeals
Memes631under 205.1%
ordinary ×0.42never
Violent639under 205.1%
avoided ×0.23never
Dark4714124.3% 1%–14%5.0%
ordinary ×0.63372 d
Subterrain: Mines of Titan
House of Necrosis
Subterrain: Mines of Titan · House of Necrosis
Dark Comedy7214under 204.9%
ordinary ×0.64never
Side Scroller749under 204.9%
avoided ×0.18never
Thriller728under 204.9%
avoided ×0.18never
Experimental846under 204.8%
ordinary ×1.12never
Psychological844under 204.8%
avoided ×0.25never
34 pairings cleared 20 releases; 17 more never reached 5 and are not listed. Compared against 6.7% for games that carry any tags at all.

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.