The niche at a glance

Lemmings on Steam: 113 released games, 22 in the last 12 months, 30 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 10. 47% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Lemmings 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 included30 releases
p101
p251
median10
p7519
p9035
47% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $4.99 · 9% free-to-play

Releases per year

outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews
2019
2med 17 · 50% unseen
2020
8med 6 · 63% unseen
2021
18med 11 · 50% unseen
2022
10med 14 · 20% unseen
2023
7med 17 · 29% unseen
2024
10med 12 · 30% unseen
2025
8med 4 · 63% unseen
2026
14med 10 · 45% unseen · 3 too fresh

Lemmings × presentation: what the pairings end up with

every presentation tag shipped with Lemmings at least 5 times · same window
share reaching 500 reviews, shrunk towards the catalogue · click a row to open the concept
Lemmings ×3 y12 mmedian≥500adjusted vs chancelast hitwho made it
Atmospheric5322under 205.3%
ordinary ×0.70never
Hand-drawn531under 205.3%
ordinary ×1.47never
Comedy621under 205.1%
cliché ×1.92never
Old School636under 205.1%
cliché ×1.98never
Stylized6310under 205.1%
ordinary ×1.40never
3D7212under 204.9%
ordinary ×0.93never
Retro734under 204.9%
cliché ×2.01never
Family Friendly946under 204.6%
cliché ×2.99never
Funny9412under 204.6%
cliché ×2.66never
Cartoony10317under 204.4%
cliché ×3.51never
Colorful11511under 204.3%
cliché ×1.67never
Relaxing1276under 204.2%
cliché ×2.11never
Pixel Graphics13715under 204.0%
cliché ×1.93never
Cute14611under 203.9%
cliché ×2.53never
2D1676under 203.7%
ordinary ×1.47never
0 pairings cleared 20 releases; 55 more never reached 5 and are not listed. Compared against 6.7% for games that carry any tags at all.

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.