Historical games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Historical on Steam: 4,650 released games, 1,384 in the last 12 months, 1,912 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 16. 40% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 13%. Historical 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 included1,735 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsHistorical × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Historical at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Historical × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4X | 65 | 31 | 225 | 43.1% 32%–55% | 34.5% | cliché ×8.03 | 152 d |    | |
| Sandbox | 161 | 56 | 164 | 34.2% 27%–42% | 31.1% | cliché ×1.78 | 166 d |  | |
| Open World | 157 | 41 | 71 | 33.8% 27%–41% | 30.7% | ordinary ×1.48 | 96 d |   | |
| Base Building | 128 | 34 | 135 | 32.8% 25%–41% | 29.3% | cliché ×2.10 | 174 d |  | |
| City Builder | 133 | 41 | 105 | 30.1% 23%–38% | 27.0% | cliché ×4.10 | 152 d | | |
| Colony Sim | 60 | 21 | 217 | 33.3% 23%–46% | 26.7% | cliché ×3.04 | 201 d |  | |
| Survival | 115 | 32 | 67 | 29.6% 22%–38% | 26.2% | ordinary ×1.01 | 174 d |  | |
| Building | 163 | 49 | 79 | 26.4% 20%–34% | 24.2% | cliché ×1.97 | 174 d |  | |
| Management | 246 | 94 | 67 | 24.0% 19%–30% | 22.7% | cliché ×2.29 | 124 d | | |
| Resource Management | 188 | 76 | 66 | 23.9% 18%–31% | 22.3% | cliché ×2.16 | 174 d | | |
| Turn-Based | 40 | 13 | 83 | 30.0% 18%–45% | 22.2% | cliché ×2.93 | 161 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 45 | 12 | 88 | 28.9% 18%–43% | 22.1% | cliché ×3.43 | 219 d |    | |
| Economy | 176 | 74 | 73 | 23.3% 18%–30% | 21.6% | cliché ×3.20 | 152 d | | |
| CRPG | 42 | 12 | 29 | 28.6% 17%–44% | 21.5% | cliché ×2.03 | 194 d |   | |
| Diplomacy | 61 | 18 | 90 | 26.2% 17%–38% | 21.4% | cliché ×12.79 | 181 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.
