Investigation games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Investigation on Steam: 4,657 released games, 1,674 in the last 12 months, 2,587 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cozy | 35 | 18 | 69 | 22.9% 12%–39% | 17.0% | ordinary ×0.61 | 168 d |    | |
| Memes | 12 | 4 | 18 | under 20 | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.43 | 167 d |    | |
| 2.5D | 54 | 15 | 33 | 18.5% 10%–31% | 15.3% | ordinary ×0.80 | 91 d |  | |
| Short | 51 | 19 | 41 | 17.6% 10%–30% | 14.6% | ordinary ×1.39 | 341 d |  | |
| Satire | 17 | 6 | 11 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.23 | 167 d |   | |
| Noir | 137 | 53 | 27 | 14.6% 10%–21% | 13.6% | cliché ×7.57 | 196 d |   | |
| Philosophical | 53 | 18 | 14 | 15.1% 8%–27% | 12.8% | cliché ×2.17 | 167 d |   | |
| Narrative | 72 | 36 | 38 | 13.9% 8%–24% | 12.3% | cliché ×4.32 | 265 d |    | |
| Cartoon | 51 | 18 | 18 | 13.7% 7%–26% | 11.7% | ordinary ×0.64 | 325 d |   | |
| Dark Comedy | 46 | 18 | 19 | 13.0% 6%–26% | 11.1% | cliché ×1.98 | 341 d |  | |
| Isometric | 39 | 11 | 27 | 12.8% 6%–27% | 10.7% | ordinary ×0.62 | 428 d |  | |
| Pixel Graphics | 238 | 75 | 22 | 10.9% 8%–16% | 10.6% | ordinary ×0.71 | 105 d |   | |
| Comedy | 172 | 64 | 27 | 11.0% 7%–17% | 10.6% | ordinary ×1.15 | 125 d |    | |
| Anime | 158 | 44 | 29 | 10.8% 7%–17% | 10.3% | ordinary ×0.80 | 252 d |  | |
| Story Rich | 955 | 319 | 20 | 9.7% 8%–12% | 9.7% | cliché ×2.96 | 91 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.
