LGBTQ+ games on Steam
The niche at a glance
LGBTQ+ on Steam: 4,542 released games, 1,202 in the last 12 months, 1,372 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 19. 39% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. LGBTQ+ 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 included2,006 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsLGBTQ+ × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with LGBTQ+ at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| LGBTQ+ × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open World | 66 | 17 | 181 | 40.9% 30%–53% | 32.9% | ordinary ×0.60 | 124 d |    | |
| Crafting | 25 | 7 | 235 | 44.0% 27%–63% | 27.4% | ordinary ×0.40 | 124 d |    | |
| Souls-like | 26 | 2 | 215 | 42.3% 26%–61% | 26.8% | ordinary ×0.95 | 383 d |    | |
| Stealth | 26 | 13 | 251 | 38.5% 22%–57% | 24.6% | ordinary ×0.47 | 328 d |    | |
| Farming Sim | 15 | 5 | 397 | under 20 | 23.8% | ordinary ×0.74 | 124 d |  | |
| Agriculture | 12 | 3 | 397 | under 20 | 22.9% | ordinary ×0.80 | 124 d |   | |
| Driving | 12 | 4 | 233 | under 20 | 22.9% | avoided ×0.33 | 148 d |  | |
| Action-Adventure | 118 | 29 | 53 | 25.4% 18%–34% | 22.7% | ordinary ×0.53 | 308 d | | |
| Building | 17 | 4 | 88 | under 20 | 22.5% | avoided ×0.19 | 139 d |  | |
| Survival Horror | 24 | 8 | 25 | 33.3% 18%–53% | 21.2% | ordinary ×0.38 | 455 d |   | |
| FPS | 39 | 17 | 102 | 28.2% 17%–44% | 20.9% | ordinary ×0.36 | 222 d |   | |
| Sandbox | 59 | 15 | 90 | 25.4% 16%–38% | 20.7% | ordinary ×0.51 | 124 d |   | |
| Heist | 6 | 2 | 553 | under 20 | 20.5% | ordinary ×1.20 | 316 d |    | |
| Third-Person Shooter | 16 | 4 | 89 | under 20 | 20.4% | ordinary ×0.41 | 413 d |  | |
| Management | 53 | 15 | 119 | 24.5% 15%–38% | 19.6% | ordinary ×0.50 | 396 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.
