Hand-drawn games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Hand-drawn on Steam: 8,618 released games, 2,060 in the last 12 months, 5,027 announced and still unreleased. Of the 4,411 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 18 lifetime reviews. 37% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Hand-drawn 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 included4,411 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsHand-drawn × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Hand-drawn at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Hand-drawn × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Souls-like | 85 | 31 | 43 | 17.6% 11%–27% | 15.5% | ordinary ×1.28 | 92 d |    | |
| Metroidvania | 121 | 37 | 47 | 16.5% 11%–24% | 15.1% | cliché ×2.33 | 202 d |  | |
| Boomer Shooter | 17 | 8 | 61 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×0.68 | 195 d |    | |
| Bullet Heaven | 18 | 4 | 65 | under 20 | 14.0% | ordinary ×0.71 | 155 d |    | |
| Strategy RPG | 104 | 26 | 29 | 15.4% 10%–24% | 14.0% | ordinary ×1.04 | 212 d |    | |
| Job Simulator | 26 | 13 | 86 | 19.2% 9%–38% | 13.8% | ordinary ×0.80 | 401 d |    | |
| Hack and Slash | 173 | 48 | 18 | 13.9% 10%–20% | 13.1% | ordinary ×0.94 | 92 d |  | |
| Hobby Sim | 6 | 3 | 14 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.99 | 401 d |  | |
| Decorating | 15 | 10 | 80 | under 20 | 12.4% | cliché ×2.06 | 237 d |   | |
| Music-Based Procedural Generation | 15 | 5 | 26 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.94 | 630 d |    | |
| Organizing | 15 | 12 | 62 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.89 | 342 d |  | |
| FPS | 40 | 14 | 21 | 15.0% 7%–29% | 12.2% | avoided ×0.17 | 195 d |  | |
| Trading | 24 | 12 | 71 | 16.7% 7%–36% | 12.1% | ordinary ×0.66 | 447 d |  | |
| Turn-Based | 50 | 14 | 36 | 14.0% 7%–26% | 11.9% | ordinary ×1.03 | 239 d |    | |
| MMORPG | 9 | 1 | 18 | under 20 | 11.5% | avoided ×0.33 | 664 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.
