Horror games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Horror on Steam: 16,065 released games, 3,633 in the last 12 months, 8,404 announced and still unreleased. Of the 7,761 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 15 lifetime reviews. 41% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Horror 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 included7,761 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsHorror × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Horror at least 5 times · same window| Horror × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extraction Shooter | 15 | 5 | 1,552 | under 20 | 29.5% | cliché ×1.64 | 105 d |    | |
| Base Building | 80 | 24 | 27 | 23.8% 16%–34% | 20.3% | avoided ×0.33 | 167 d |    | |
| Souls-like | 139 | 32 | 45 | 21.6% 16%–29% | 19.7% | ordinary ×1.13 | 153 d |    | |
| Co-op Campaign | 35 | 10 | 58 | 25.7% 14%–42% | 18.8% | ordinary ×0.97 | 104 d |    | |
| Crafting | 157 | 58 | 36 | 19.7% 14%–27% | 18.3% | ordinary ×0.50 | 91 d |  | |
| Economy | 26 | 13 | 29 | 26.9% 14%–46% | 18.1% | avoided ×0.12 | 202 d |    | |
| Farming Sim | 26 | 8 | 83 | 26.9% 14%–46% | 18.1% | avoided ×0.22 | 91 d |    | |
| Character Customization | 212 | 63 | 26 | 18.9% 14%–25% | 17.8% | ordinary ×0.46 | 104 d |  | |
| Colony Sim | 10 | 2 | 389 | under 20 | 17.8% | avoided ×0.18 | 99 d |   | |
| Building | 93 | 25 | 27 | 19.4% 13%–29% | 17.1% | avoided ×0.25 | 99 d |  | |
| Automobile Sim | 18 | 3 | 26 | under 20 | 16.6% | avoided ×0.20 | 463 d |    | |
| Heist | 18 | 6 | 33 | under 20 | 16.6% | ordinary ×0.84 | 140 d |    | |
| Open World Survival Craft | 25 | 10 | 84 | 24.0% 11%–43% | 16.3% | ordinary ×0.87 | 264 d |  | |
| Turn-Based | 19 | 7 | 101 | under 20 | 16.2% | avoided ×0.27 | 278 d |    | |
| Hacking | 32 | 8 | 14 | 21.9% 11%–39% | 16.0% | ordinary ×0.90 | 104 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.
