The niche at a glance
JRPG on Steam: 5,047 released games, 1,284 in the last 12 months, 1,688 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 20. 38% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. JRPG 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 included1,961 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsJRPG × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with JRPG at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| JRPG × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martial Arts | 13 | 5 | 1,206 | under 20 | 25.3% | ordinary ×1.30 | 245 d |    | |
| Crime | 23 | 9 | 76 | 34.8% 19%–55% | 21.7% | ordinary ×0.61 | 118 d |   | |
| Mechs | 17 | 6 | 101 | under 20 | 17.1% | ordinary ×1.40 | 413 d |    | |
| Psychological Horror | 89 | 35 | 51 | 19.1% 12%–28% | 16.8% | ordinary ×0.70 | 120 d |    | |
| Cooking | 20 | 6 | 121 | 25.0% 11%–47% | 15.9% | ordinary ×0.61 | 232 d |    | |
| Sports | 21 | 6 | 13 | 23.8% 11%–45% | 15.5% | avoided ×0.21 | 284 d |    | |
| Time Travel | 15 | 4 | 62 | under 20 | 15.3% | cliché ×1.52 | 251 d |    | |
| Music | 9 | 4 | 237 | under 20 | 15.0% | ordinary ×0.39 | 264 d |    | |
| Dating Sim | 273 | 83 | 33 | 15.4% 12%–20% | 14.8% | cliché ×2.90 | 90 d |   | |
| Ninja | 10 | 5 | 85 | under 20 | 14.5% | ordinary ×1.38 | 251 d |    | |
| Robots | 24 | 4 | 43 | 20.8% 9%–40% | 14.4% | ordinary ×0.45 | 413 d |   | |
| Dragons | 38 | 8 | 40 | 18.4% 9%–33% | 14.4% | cliché ×2.52 | 216 d |   | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 53 | 19 | 36 | 17.0% 9%–29% | 14.2% | ordinary ×0.90 | 232 d |    | |
| Farming Sim | 18 | 5 | 82 | under 20 | 14.1% | ordinary ×0.67 | 139 d |  | |
| Sci-fi | 145 | 41 | 45 | 14.5% 10%–21% | 13.5% | ordinary ×0.72 | 202 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.
