Looter Shooter games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Looter Shooter on Steam: 1,151 released games, 412 in the last 12 months, 696 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 9. 52% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Looter Shooter 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 included557 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsLooter Shooter × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Looter Shooter at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Looter Shooter × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mechs | 16 | 4 | 185 | under 20 | 20.4% | cliché ×4.03 | 166 d |    | |
| Sci-fi | 120 | 36 | 24 | 21.7% 15%–30% | 19.5% | cliché ×2.40 | 112 d |    | |
| Military | 43 | 11 | 21 | 23.3% 13%–38% | 18.0% | cliché ×3.81 | 112 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 6 | 2 | 336 | under 20 | 16.7% | avoided ×0.29 | 397 d |   | |
| Robots | 30 | 9 | 29 | 23.3% 12%–41% | 16.7% | cliché ×2.38 | 201 d |  | |
| Spaceships | 7 | 1 | 160 | under 20 | 16.0% | cliché ×4.32 | 389 d |    | |
| Female Protagonist | 15 | 3 | 21 | under 20 | 15.2% | ordinary ×0.60 | 559 d |  | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 96 | 31 | 30 | 15.6% 10%–24% | 14.1% | cliché ×6.56 | 110 d |   | |
| Space | 63 | 21 | 12 | 14.3% 8%–25% | 12.4% | cliché ×2.20 | 314 d | | |
| Futuristic | 55 | 15 | 10 | 14.5% 8%–26% | 12.4% | cliché ×2.42 | 201 d |   | |
| Horror | 39 | 18 | 6 | 15.4% 7%–30% | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.02 | 201 d |   | |
| Dystopian | 7 | 1 | 199 | under 20 | 12.3% | cliché ×2.06 | 749 d | | |
| 1980s | 12 | 2 | 3 | under 20 | 10.4% | ordinary ×0.82 | 215 d |   | |
| Cyberpunk | 34 | 10 | 28 | 11.8% 5%–27% | 9.9% | cliché ×2.84 | 166 d |  | |
| Psychological Horror | 14 | 6 | 2 | under 20 | 9.8% | ordinary ×0.41 | 332 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.
