Linear games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Linear on Steam: 12,673 released games, 3,006 in the last 12 months, 5,473 announced and still unreleased. Of the 6,818 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 8 lifetime reviews. 53% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. Linear 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 included6,818 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsLinear × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Linear at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Linear × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 10 | 8 | 34 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×0.72 | 363 d |    | |
| Character Action Game | 11 | 2 | 89 | under 20 | 14.0% | ordinary ×1.05 | 337 d |    | |
| Loot | 43 | 18 | 5 | 11.6% 5%–24% | 10.0% | avoided ×0.33 | 92 d |    | |
| Fishing | 36 | 14 | 14 | 11.1% 4%–25% | 9.5% | ordinary ×0.71 | 128 d |    | |
| Job Simulator | 15 | 8 | 57 | under 20 | 9.5% | ordinary ×0.47 | 363 d |  | |
| Language Learning | 5 | 3 | 28 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×1.08 | 121 d |  | |
| Heist | 16 | 5 | 9 | under 20 | 9.2% | ordinary ×0.64 | 265 d |   | |
| Archery | 18 | 4 | 10 | under 20 | 8.8% | ordinary ×0.78 | 181 d |  | |
| Gambling | 18 | 10 | 13 | under 20 | 8.8% | avoided ×0.33 | 148 d |  | |
| Trading | 18 | 6 | 30 | under 20 | 8.8% | avoided ×0.26 | 92 d |  | |
| Bullet Heaven | 7 | 4 | 4 | under 20 | 8.6% | avoided ×0.28 | 104 d |  | |
| MMORPG | 7 | 3 | 16 | under 20 | 8.6% | avoided ×0.12 | 505 d |  | |
| Pinball | 7 | 6 | 12 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×0.59 | 148 d | | |
| Naval | 19 | 6 | 11 | under 20 | 8.5% | ordinary ×0.58 | 581 d | | |
| Spectacle fighter | 33 | 12 | 11 | 9.1% 3%–24% | 8.2% | ordinary ×0.72 | 230 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.
