MMORPG games on Steam
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MMORPG on Steam: 1,126 released games, 332 in the last 12 months, 576 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 54. 20% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 57%. MMORPG 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 included403 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsMMORPG × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with MMORPG at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| MMORPG × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fantasy | 170 | 57 | 96 | 25.3% 19%–32% | 23.3% | cliché ×2.78 | 90 d |    | |
| Cooking | 7 | 4 | 1,070 | under 20 | 19.8% | ordinary ×1.05 | 249 d |    | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 13 | 2 | 426 | under 20 | 19.2% | ordinary ×1.35 | 301 d |    | |
| Mining | 8 | 3 | 222 | under 20 | 19.0% | cliché ×2.03 | 249 d |  | |
| Space | 8 | 5 | 106 | under 20 | 19.0% | ordinary ×0.93 | 124 d |    | |
| Sci-fi | 21 | 6 | 43 | 28.6% 14%–50% | 17.9% | ordinary ×0.88 | 124 d |   | |
| Magic | 61 | 23 | 112 | 21.3% 13%–33% | 17.7% | cliché ×2.73 | 131 d | | |
| Medieval | 58 | 24 | 99 | 20.7% 12%–33% | 17.1% | cliché ×3.16 | 118 d |   | |
| Mythology | 23 | 8 | 73 | 26.1% 13%–46% | 17.1% | cliché ×2.43 | 192 d |    | |
| Hunting | 7 | 3 | 499 | under 20 | 16.0% | cliché ×3.12 | 249 d |  | |
| Romance | 7 | 3 | 384 | under 20 | 16.0% | avoided ×0.26 | 126 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 16 | 9 | 86 | under 20 | 14.8% | cliché ×3.36 | 281 d |   | |
| War | 17 | 7 | 54 | under 20 | 14.4% | cliché ×1.88 | 192 d |  | |
| Dark Fantasy | 32 | 13 | 100 | 18.8% 9%–35% | 14.1% | cliché ×1.74 | 277 d |    | |
| Mystery | 12 | 4 | 82 | under 20 | 13.5% | avoided ×0.28 | 166 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.
