Hero Shooter games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Hero Shooter on Steam: 1,114 released games, 223 in the last 12 months, 410 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 7. 54% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 18%. Hero Shooter 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 included454 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsHero Shooter × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Hero Shooter at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Hero Shooter × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechs | 10 | 1 | 6 | under 20 | 14.4% | cliché ×3.43 | 469 d |    | |
| Sci-fi | 110 | 27 | 8 | 15.5% 10%–23% | 14.1% | cliché ×2.46 | 141 d |    | |
| Robots | 20 | 3 | 12 | 20.0% 8%–42% | 13.3% | cliché ×3.41 | 469 d | | |
| Supernatural | 7 | 1 | 27 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.67 | 260 d |   | |
| Psychological Horror | 16 | 1 | 8 | under 20 | 12.0% | ordinary ×0.42 | 222 d |  | |
| Fantasy | 76 | 17 | 8 | 13.2% 7%–23% | 11.8% | ordinary ×0.95 | 260 d |   | |
| Military | 51 | 11 | 4 | 13.7% 7%–26% | 11.7% | cliché ×4.97 | 138 d |   | |
| Superhero | 10 | 3 | 40 | under 20 | 11.1% | cliché ×7.19 | 677 d |  | |
| Futuristic | 56 | 13 | 10 | 12.5% 6%–24% | 11.0% | cliché ×2.82 | 215 d |  | |
| Cyberpunk | 32 | 8 | 13 | 12.5% 5%–28% | 10.3% | cliché ×3.60 | 222 d |  | |
| Sniper | 14 | 2 | 9 | under 20 | 9.8% | cliché ×12.28 | 500 d |   | |
| Detective | 6 | 3 | 24 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.50 | 243 d |  | |
| 1990's | 29 | 10 | 6 | 10.3% 4%–26% | 8.8% | cliché ×1.61 | 138 d |   | |
| Survival Horror | 29 | 4 | 10 | 10.3% 4%–26% | 8.8% | ordinary ×1.25 | 868 d |  | |
| Crime | 7 | 2 | 3 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.39 | 781 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.
