Hacking games on Steam
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Hacking on Steam: 839 released games, 329 in the last 12 months, 452 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 10. 50% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Hacking 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 included303 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsHacking × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Hacking at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Hacking × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychological Horror | 30 | 12 | 23 | 23.3% 12%–41% | 16.7% | ordinary ×1.24 | 341 d |    | |
| Horror | 30 | 10 | 14 | 20.0% 10%–37% | 14.7% | ordinary ×0.98 | 341 d |   | |
| Job Simulator | 6 | 0 | 31 | under 20 | 12.8% | cliché ×1.86 | 393 d |   | |
| Detective | 30 | 7 | 20 | 16.7% 7%–34% | 12.7% | cliché ×4.16 | 516 d |    | |
| Heist | 16 | 8 | 6 | under 20 | 12.0% | cliché ×16.40 | 215 d |    | |
| Artificial Intelligence | 33 | 19 | 7 | 15.2% 7%–31% | 11.9% | cliché ×5.34 | 180 d |   | |
| Dystopian | 9 | 3 | 96 | under 20 | 11.5% | cliché ×6.63 | 599 d | | |
| Thriller | 10 | 2 | 8 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×1.41 | 371 d | | |
| Crime | 29 | 10 | 13 | 13.8% 5%–31% | 10.9% | cliché ×8.21 | 483 d | | |
| Space | 13 | 2 | 17 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×1.03 | 180 d |  | |
| Supernatural | 5 | 3 | 37 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.58 | 341 d |  | |
| Transhumanism | 5 | 1 | 4 | under 20 | 9.3% | cliché ×9.96 | 390 d |  | |
| Espionage | 6 | 4 | 6 | under 20 | 9.0% | cliché ×33.16 | 599 d | | |
| Mystery | 40 | 14 | 8 | 10.0% 4%–23% | 8.9% | cliché ×1.64 | 516 d |   | |
| Futuristic | 68 | 27 | 10 | 8.8% 4%–18% | 8.3% | cliché ×4.42 | 180 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.
