Jump Scare games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Jump Scare on Steam: 287 released games, 137 in the last 12 months, 175 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 24. 35% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 7%. Jump Scare 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 included143 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsJump Scare × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Jump Scare at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Jump Scare × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Immersive Sim | 20 | 4 | 82 | 20.0% 8%–42% | 13.3% | cliché ×1.72 | 314 d |    | |
| Open World | 6 | 4 | 24 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.51 | 1046 d |  | |
| Escape Room | 7 | 1 | 19 | under 20 | 8.6% | cliché ×14.41 | 354 d |  | |
| 3D Platformer | 8 | 4 | 11 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.86 | 665 d |  | |
| Choices Matter | 8 | 3 | 43 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.68 | 354 d | | |
| Exploration | 70 | 17 | 27 | 8.6% 4%–17% | 8.1% | cliché ×2.55 | 314 d | | |
| Walking Simulator | 46 | 12 | 47 | 8.7% 3%–20% | 8.1% | cliché ×7.23 | 314 d | | |
| Puzzle | 35 | 10 | 17 | 8.6% 3%–22% | 7.9% | cliché ×1.52 | 354 d |  | |
| Simulation | 51 | 16 | 31 | 7.8% 3%–19% | 7.5% | ordinary ×1.35 | 314 d | | |
| Adventure | 81 | 21 | 28 | 7.4% 3%–15% | 7.3% | cliché ×1.64 | 314 d | | |
| Collectathon | 5 | 1 | 2 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×1.00 | never | ||
| Perma Death | 5 | 1 | 11 | under 20 | 5.3% | cliché ×1.73 | never | ||
| Platformer | 7 | 2 | 6 | under 20 | 4.9% | ordinary ×0.37 | never | ||
| Arcade | 8 | 4 | 31 | under 20 | 4.8% | avoided ×0.24 | never | ||
| FPS | 10 | 3 | 12 | under 20 | 4.4% | ordinary ×1.34 | never |
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.
