Idler games on Steam
Idler on Steam: 5,498 released games, 3,022 in the last 12 months, 2,527 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 14. 45% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 15%. Idler 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 included2,800 releasesp100
p250
median14
p7564
p90361
45% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $3.99 · 15% free-to-play
Releases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago — anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2019
36med 132 · 14% unseen
2020
96med 45 · 26% unseen
2021
285med 23 · 35% unseen
2022
296med 28 · 25% unseen
2023
381med 20 · 35% unseen
2024
639med 27 · 33% unseen
2025
1,033med 17 · 40% unseen
2026
1,862med 0 · 60% unseen · 851 too fresh
Best known here
by lifetime reviews
Latest releases
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