Hacking games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Hacking on Steam: 840 released games, 329 in the last 12 months, 454 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Realistic | 32 | 12 | 49 | 28.1% 16%–45% | 19.9% | cliché ×1.57 | 180 d |    | |
| First-Person | 62 | 21 | 25 | 21.0% 13%–33% | 17.5% | ordinary ×1.34 | 250 d |  | |
| Funny | 26 | 13 | 31 | 23.1% 11%–42% | 15.9% | ordinary ×0.69 | 180 d | | |
| Horror | 30 | 10 | 14 | 20.0% 10%–37% | 14.7% | ordinary ×0.98 | 341 d |    | |
| Experimental | 10 | 4 | 25 | under 20 | 14.4% | cliché ×3.63 | 546 d |    | |
| Relaxing | 33 | 12 | 22 | 18.2% 9%–34% | 13.8% | ordinary ×0.48 | 343 d |  | |
| Atmospheric | 72 | 34 | 11 | 15.3% 9%–25% | 13.4% | ordinary ×1.27 | 250 d | | |
| Memes | 6 | 4 | 10 | under 20 | 12.8% | cliché ×1.83 | 250 d |  | |
| Comedy | 8 | 5 | 20 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.60 | 250 d |  | |
| Dark Humor | 8 | 3 | 24 | under 20 | 11.9% | cliché ×1.55 | 582 d |   | |
| Violent | 8 | 1 | 19 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.61 | 790 d |  | |
| Thriller | 10 | 2 | 8 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×1.40 | 371 d | | |
| Abstract | 30 | 11 | 11 | 13.3% 5%–30% | 10.7% | cliché ×2.76 | 341 d |   | |
| 3D | 87 | 29 | 11 | 11.5% 6%–20% | 10.6% | ordinary ×0.96 | 180 d | | |
| Story Rich | 57 | 21 | 19 | 10.5% 5%–21% | 9.5% | ordinary ×1.40 | 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.
