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+ × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gore | 44 | 22 | 80 | 34.1% 22%–49% | 25.5% | ordinary ×0.79 | 357 d |    | |
| Third Person | 140 | 33 | 35 | 26.4% 20%–34% | 24.0% | ordinary ×0.69 | 139 d |    | |
| Violent | 63 | 22 | 54 | 28.6% 19%–41% | 23.3% | ordinary ×1.02 | 357 d |   | |
| Cozy | 69 | 24 | 72 | 21.7% 14%–33% | 18.4% | ordinary ×1.08 | 124 d |   | |
| Difficult | 20 | 2 | 30 | 30.0% 15%–52% | 18.3% | avoided ×0.24 | 383 d |    | |
| VR | 21 | 6 | 237 | 28.6% 14%–50% | 17.9% | ordinary ×0.37 | 148 d |    | |
| Horror | 181 | 54 | 37 | 18.2% 13%–24% | 17.1% | ordinary ×0.95 | 319 d |   | |
| Music | 25 | 12 | 49 | 24.0% 11%–43% | 16.3% | cliché ×1.54 | 159 d |    | |
| Atmospheric | 346 | 115 | 36 | 16.8% 13%–21% | 16.2% | ordinary ×0.92 | 141 d |  | |
| Memes | 45 | 5 | 23 | 17.8% 9%–31% | 14.4% | cliché ×2.69 | 434 d |   | |
| Narrative | 40 | 17 | 49 | 17.5% 9%–32% | 13.9% | cliché ×2.84 | 145 d |   | |
| Short | 28 | 9 | 29 | 17.9% 8%–36% | 13.2% | ordinary ×1.27 | 434 d |    | |
| Experimental | 6 | 1 | 42 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.82 | 372 d |   | |
| Dark | 130 | 48 | 39 | 13.1% 8%–20% | 12.2% | ordinary ×0.98 | 194 d | | |
| Satire | 32 | 14 | 31 | 15.6% 7%–32% | 12.2% | cliché ×1.57 | 131 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.
