Investigation games on Steam
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Investigation on Steam: 4,654 released games, 1,671 in the last 12 months, 2,588 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 47% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Investigation 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 included2,089 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsInvestigation × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Investigation at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Investigation × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dystopian | 23 | 7 | 59 | 26.1% 13%–46% | 17.1% | cliché ×2.36 | 538 d |    | |
| Historical | 95 | 32 | 32 | 17.9% 11%–27% | 15.9% | cliché ×1.91 | 278 d |    | |
| Trains | 14 | 5 | 49 | under 20 | 15.7% | cliché ×1.50 | 538 d |   | |
| Time Travel | 38 | 9 | 10 | 18.4% 9%–33% | 14.4% | cliché ×2.91 | 196 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 61 | 19 | 67 | 16.4% 9%–28% | 14.0% | ordinary ×1.19 | 445 d |   | |
| Noir | 137 | 53 | 27 | 14.6% 10%–21% | 13.6% | cliché ×7.57 | 196 d |   | |
| World War II | 7 | 3 | 14 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.58 | 265 d |  | |
| Conspiracy | 107 | 33 | 18 | 13.1% 8%–21% | 12.1% | cliché ×8.41 | 207 d |    | |
| Science | 34 | 9 | 22 | 14.7% 6%–30% | 11.7% | cliché ×1.86 | 106 d |    | |
| Lovecraftian | 78 | 20 | 23 | 12.8% 7%–22% | 11.6% | cliché ×3.99 | 252 d |   | |
| Cooking | 10 | 0 | 28 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.44 | 677 d |  ![[Bober Bros] The Hole](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3037930/9cbf747eb97b9e3d77f96a3548813ba2d14fe325/capsule_231x87.jpg){kind=small} | |
| Space | 46 | 9 | 17 | 13.0% 6%–26% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.56 | 106 d |   | |
| Job Simulator | 12 | 6 | 35 | under 20 | 10.4% | ordinary ×1.50 | 168 d |   | |
| Faith | 13 | 6 | 18 | under 20 | 10.1% | cliché ×1.67 | 105 d |   | |
| Steampunk | 14 | 4 | 5 | under 20 | 9.8% | cliché ×1.77 | 341 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.
