Idler games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Idler on Steam: 4,884 released games, 2,272 in the last 12 months, 3,142 announced and still unreleased. Of the 2,904 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 16 lifetime reviews. 41% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. 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 included2,904 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsIdler × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Idler at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Idler × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Experimental | 44 | 25 | 87 | 25.0% 15%–39% | 19.3% | ordinary ×1.48 | 152 d |    | |
| Short | 65 | 41 | 82 | 21.5% 13%–33% | 18.0% | ordinary ×1.37 | 91 d |   | |
| Cozy | 275 | 161 | 26 | 13.5% 10%–18% | 13.0% | cliché ×4.65 | 92 d |    | |
| Wholesome | 62 | 34 | 29 | 14.5% 8%–25% | 12.6% | cliché ×3.28 | 174 d |   | |
| Horror | 103 | 24 | 26 | 13.6% 8%–22% | 12.5% | avoided ×0.28 | 250 d |    | |
| Music | 41 | 11 | 26 | 14.6% 7%–28% | 12.0% | ordinary ×1.01 | 215 d |   | |
| Pixel Graphics | 846 | 472 | 16 | 11.8% 10%–14% | 11.7% | cliché ×1.65 | 92 d |    | |
| Retro | 253 | 156 | 18 | 11.5% 8%–16% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.85 | 146 d |  | |
| Gothic | 11 | 4 | 30 | under 20 | 10.7% | ordinary ×0.65 | 174 d |   | |
| Colorful | 881 | 410 | 18 | 10.4% 9%–13% | 10.4% | cliché ×1.54 | 91 d |   | |
| Old School | 83 | 45 | 8 | 10.8% 6%–19% | 10.0% | ordinary ×0.63 | 204 d |  | |
| Minimalist | 540 | 273 | 15 | 10.0% 8%–13% | 9.9% | cliché ×2.52 | 127 d |  | |
| Comedy | 196 | 78 | 21 | 10.2% 7%–15% | 9.9% | ordinary ×0.81 | 133 d |   | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 47 | 14 | 26 | 10.6% 5%–23% | 9.4% | ordinary ×0.57 | 331 d |    | |
| Top-Down | 283 | 152 | 14 | 9.5% 7%–14% | 9.3% | ordinary ×1.04 | 92 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.
