Lovecraftian games on Steam
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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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Difficult | 31 | 10 | 50 | 22.6% 11%–40% | 16.3% | ordinary ×1.37 | 277 d |    | |
| Anime | 58 | 19 | 28 | 17.2% 10%–29% | 14.5% | ordinary ×0.82 | 252 d |   | |
| Lore-Rich | 72 | 23 | 24 | 16.7% 10%–27% | 14.5% | cliché ×3.71 | 391 d |    | |
| Fast-Paced | 7 | 1 | 85 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.80 | 398 d |   | |
| Isometric | 16 | 7 | 38 | under 20 | 12.0% | ordinary ×1.21 | 428 d |    | |
| Violent | 42 | 16 | 44 | 14.3% 7%–28% | 11.8% | cliché ×2.03 | 90 d |   | |
| Cute | 51 | 17 | 23 | 13.7% 7%–26% | 11.7% | ordinary ×0.41 | 275 d |  | |
| Dark | 230 | 73 | 25 | 12.2% 9%–17% | 11.7% | cliché ×4.61 | 90 d |  | |
| Relaxing | 17 | 5 | 36 | under 20 | 11.7% | avoided ×0.24 | 275 d |   | |
| Hand-drawn | 69 | 17 | 28 | 13.0% 7%–23% | 11.6% | cliché ×1.64 | 351 d |    | |
| Comic Book | 18 | 4 | 33 | under 20 | 11.4% | ordinary ×1.21 | 701 d |   | |
| Horror | 344 | 111 | 28 | 11.6% 9%–15% | 11.4% | cliché ×5.37 | 90 d | | |
| Story Rich | 234 | 70 | 37 | 11.5% 8%–16% | 11.2% | cliché ×2.22 | 251 d | | |
| Minimalist | 28 | 7 | 16 | 14.3% 6%–31% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.75 | 275 d |   | |
| FMV | 11 | 6 | 2 | under 20 | 10.8% | cliché ×1.72 | 389 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.
