The niche at a glance
Loot on Steam: 3,298 released games, 1,565 in the last 12 months, 2,113 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 16. 42% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Loot 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 included1,437 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsLoot × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Loot at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Loot × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capitalism | 40 | 21 | 68 | 25.0% 14%–40% | 18.9% | ordinary ×1.45 | 170 d |    | |
| Steampunk | 10 | 6 | 37 | under 20 | 17.8% | cliché ×1.55 | 114 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 27 | 15 | 87 | 25.9% 13%–45% | 17.7% | cliché ×1.77 | 195 d |    | |
| Dark Fantasy | 167 | 72 | 33 | 18.6% 13%–25% | 17.3% | cliché ×2.66 | 114 d |    | |
| Historical | 32 | 9 | 12 | 21.9% 11%–39% | 16.0% | ordinary ×0.65 | 197 d |    | |
| Fantasy | 518 | 229 | 22 | 14.9% 12%–18% | 14.6% | cliché ×2.39 | 91 d |   | |
| Mythology | 65 | 19 | 16 | 16.9% 10%–28% | 14.5% | cliché ×2.23 | 239 d |   | |
| Shop Keeper | 10 | 8 | 68 | under 20 | 14.5% | ordinary ×0.95 | 178 d |   | |
| Cats | 24 | 11 | 51 | 20.8% 9%–40% | 14.4% | ordinary ×0.68 | 184 d |    | |
| Military | 32 | 11 | 55 | 18.8% 9%–35% | 14.1% | ordinary ×0.85 | 113 d |  | |
| Wuxia | 11 | 10 | 145 | under 20 | 14.0% | cliché ×7.08 | 195 d |   | |
| Horror | 104 | 44 | 15 | 15.4% 10%–24% | 14.0% | ordinary ×0.55 | 126 d |   | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 90 | 29 | 31 | 15.6% 9%–24% | 13.9% | cliché ×2.02 | 113 d |    | |
| Sci-fi | 155 | 60 | 22 | 14.8% 10%–21% | 13.9% | ordinary ×1.07 | 90 d |    | |
| War | 26 | 8 | 24 | 19.2% 9%–38% | 13.8% | ordinary ×0.59 | 197 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.
