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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990's | 19 | 5 | 49 | under 20 | 11.1% | cliché ×2.02 | 314 d |    | |
| Robots | 5 | 2 | 7 | under 20 | 9.3% | cliché ×1.72 | 1034 d |  | |
| Female Protagonist | 6 | 3 | 123 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.57 | 354 d |  | |
| Dark Fantasy | 7 | 1 | 29 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×0.61 | 665 d |  | |
| Detective | 8 | 3 | 19 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×1.38 | 354 d | | |
| Zombies | 10 | 1 | 31 | under 20 | 7.8% | cliché ×1.73 | 854 d |  | |
| Demons | 26 | 10 | 31 | 7.7% 2%–24% | 7.2% | cliché ×6.36 | 314 d | | |
| Horror | 131 | 42 | 27 | 6.1% 3%–12% | 6.2% | cliché ×8.53 | 314 d | | |
| Mystery | 52 | 11 | 19 | 5.8% 2%–16% | 6.0% | cliché ×4.33 | 354 d | | |
| Sci-fi | 5 | 1 | 37 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×0.55 | never | ||
| Artificial Intelligence | 7 | 1 | 5 | under 20 | 4.9% | ordinary ×1.49 | never | ||
| Survival Horror | 79 | 31 | 19 | 3.8% 1%–11% | 4.4% | cliché ×12.87 | 314 d | | |
| Psychological Horror | 103 | 29 | 28 | 3.9% 2%–10% | 4.3% | cliché ×9.96 | 354 d | | |
| Supernatural | 41 | 11 | 30 | 2.4% 0%–13% | 3.8% | cliché ×10.73 | 715 d | | |
| Thriller | 41 | 9 | 39 | 2.4% 0%–13% | 3.8% | cliché ×10.97 | 1046 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.
