Lovecraftian games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Lovecraftian on Steam: 1,523 released games, 496 in the last 12 months, 892 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 19. 39% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 8%. Lovecraftian 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 included624 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsLovecraftian × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Lovecraftian at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Lovecraftian × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open World | 32 | 16 | 123 | 28.1% 16%–45% | 19.9% | ordinary ×0.94 | 90 d |    | |
| Deckbuilding | 22 | 8 | 83 | 27.3% 13%–48% | 17.5% | ordinary ×1.49 | 235 d |    | |
| Turn-Based Combat | 37 | 11 | 51 | 21.6% 11%–37% | 16.4% | cliché ×1.98 | 319 d |   | |
| Souls-like | 31 | 9 | 44 | 22.6% 11%–40% | 16.3% | cliché ×3.06 | 319 d |  | |
| Base Building | 13 | 2 | 207 | under 20 | 16.2% | ordinary ×0.75 | 509 d |   | |
| Roguelike Deckbuilder | 8 | 3 | 303 | under 20 | 15.5% | cliché ×1.57 | 235 d |   | |
| RPG | 144 | 43 | 37 | 16.7% 11%–24% | 15.4% | ordinary ×1.43 | 235 d | | |
| Turn-Based Tactics | 24 | 11 | 24 | 20.8% 9%–40% | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.03 | 319 d |  | |
| Card Battler | 19 | 6 | 75 | under 20 | 13.7% | ordinary ×1.37 | 351 d |  | |
| Simulation | 88 | 24 | 27 | 14.8% 9%–24% | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.60 | 275 d |   | |
| Strategy | 88 | 30 | 32 | 14.8% 9%–24% | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.73 | 275 d | | |
| Survival | 58 | 17 | 36 | 15.5% 8%–27% | 13.2% | ordinary ×1.36 | 90 d |  | |
| Survival Horror | 121 | 46 | 25 | 14.0% 9%–21% | 13.0% | cliché ×4.82 | 90 d | | |
| City Builder | 6 | 2 | 24 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.60 | 509 d |  | |
| Typing | 6 | 0 | 6 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.98 | 585 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.
