The niche at a glance

Immersive on Steam: 881 released games, 302 in the last 12 months, 423 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 15. 41% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Immersive 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 included420 releases
p100
p253
median15
p7572
p90376
41% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $7.99 · 11% free-to-play

Releases per year

outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews
2019
14med 231 · 7% unseen
2020
34med 79 · 21% unseen
2021
54med 33 · 24% unseen
2022
59med 45 · 24% unseen
2023
98med 19 · 33% unseen
2024
122med 24 · 31% unseen
2025
156med 18 · 38% unseen
2026
184med 6 · 57% unseen · 74 too fresh