Historical games on Steam
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Historical on Steam: 4,650 released games, 1,384 in the last 12 months, 1,911 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 51 | 12 | 61 | 31.4% 20%–45% | 24.4% | ordinary ×1.07 | 151 d |    | |
| FMV | 15 | 4 | 126 | under 20 | 21.0% | ordinary ×1.21 | 400 d |    | |
| Difficult | 32 | 10 | 58 | 28.1% 16%–45% | 19.9% | ordinary ×0.62 | 193 d |    | |
| Cinematic | 106 | 30 | 29 | 21.7% 15%–30% | 19.3% | cliché ×1.78 | 96 d |    | |
| Narrative | 19 | 8 | 50 | under 20 | 18.8% | cliché ×1.76 | 152 d |    | |
| Third Person | 188 | 48 | 24 | 19.7% 15%–26% | 18.4% | ordinary ×1.27 | 96 d |  | |
| Noir | 26 | 12 | 38 | 26.9% 14%–46% | 18.1% | cliché ×1.69 | 351 d |   | |
| Isometric | 81 | 26 | 37 | 19.8% 13%–30% | 17.2% | cliché ×1.82 | 124 d |   | |
| Realistic | 324 | 95 | 26 | 16.7% 13%–21% | 16.1% | cliché ×2.10 | 147 d |  | |
| First-Person | 257 | 79 | 18 | 16.0% 12%–21% | 15.3% | ordinary ×0.98 | 147 d |  | |
| Story Rich | 471 | 150 | 31 | 15.3% 12%–19% | 14.9% | cliché ×1.67 | 147 d |  | |
| Gore | 43 | 15 | 49 | 18.6% 10%–33% | 14.8% | ordinary ×0.90 | 151 d |  | |
| 3D | 527 | 145 | 16 | 14.2% 12%–17% | 14.0% | ordinary ×1.08 | 96 d | | |
| Emotional | 115 | 42 | 24 | 14.8% 9%–22% | 13.6% | ordinary ×1.46 | 147 d |  | |
| Atmospheric | 350 | 109 | 32 | 13.1% 10%–17% | 12.8% | ordinary ×1.17 | 147 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.
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