MMORPG games on Steam
The niche at a glance
MMORPG on Steam: 1,128 released games, 333 in the last 12 months, 575 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 included402 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsMMORPG × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Third Person | 96 | 29 | 113 | 30.2% 22%–40% | 26.1% | cliché ×2.99 | 90 d |    | |
| Anime | 43 | 11 | 165 | 30.2% 19%–45% | 22.8% | ordinary ×1.25 | 166 d |   | |
| 3D | 150 | 44 | 96 | 24.7% 18%–32% | 22.5% | ordinary ×1.37 | 90 d |   | |
| Story Rich | 70 | 20 | 95 | 24.3% 16%–35% | 20.4% | ordinary ×0.86 | 222 d |  | |
| Cinematic | 12 | 6 | 316 | under 20 | 19.8% | ordinary ×0.74 | 192 d |    | |
| Cute | 53 | 13 | 95 | 24.5% 15%–38% | 19.6% | ordinary ×0.74 | 90 d |   | |
| Atmospheric | 34 | 16 | 93 | 26.5% 15%–43% | 19.1% | ordinary ×0.49 | 118 d | | |
| Old School | 25 | 8 | 167 | 28.0% 14%–48% | 18.5% | ordinary ×1.18 | 131 d |  | |
| Isometric | 26 | 12 | 100 | 26.9% 14%–46% | 18.1% | cliché ×1.95 | 277 d |   | |
| Cozy | 5 | 1 | 1,372 | under 20 | 17.3% | ordinary ×0.52 | 222 d |   | |
| Gore | 5 | 0 | 615 | under 20 | 17.3% | ordinary ×0.65 | 965 d |  | |
| Colorful | 41 | 13 | 75 | 22.0% 12%–37% | 16.9% | ordinary ×0.64 | 118 d |    | |
| Realistic | 24 | 9 | 95 | 25.0% 12%–45% | 16.7% | ordinary ×1.01 | 118 d |  | |
| Violent | 8 | 1 | 88 | under 20 | 15.5% | ordinary ×0.72 | 595 d |  | |
| Stylized | 35 | 15 | 38 | 20.0% 10%–36% | 15.2% | ordinary ×0.75 | 124 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.
