Match 3 games on Steam
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Match 3 on Steam: 1,818 released games, 380 in the last 12 months, 292 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 3. 71% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 6%. Match 3 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 included629 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsMatch 3 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Match 3 at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Match 3 × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Third Person | 5 | 1 | 5 | under 20 | 9.3% | avoided ×0.10 | 499 d |  | |
| Narrative | 8 | 4 | 29 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.95 | 173 d |  | |
| Surreal | 8 | 2 | 4 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.40 | 173 d | | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 9 | 5 | 12 | under 20 | 8.0% | ordinary ×0.56 | 251 d |  | |
| Psychedelic | 11 | 2 | 1 | under 20 | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.76 | 336 d |  | |
| Comedy | 32 | 6 | 4 | 6.3% 2%–20% | 6.4% | ordinary ×0.70 | 173 d |  | |
| Difficult | 5 | 3 | 3 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×0.51 | never | ||
| Side Scroller | 5 | 1 | 14 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×0.44 | never | ||
| Cinematic | 6 | 2 | 0 | under 20 | 5.1% | avoided ×0.21 | never | ||
| Lore-Rich | 6 | 1 | 9 | under 20 | 5.1% | ordinary ×0.36 | never | ||
| Noir | 6 | 1 | 0 | under 20 | 5.1% | ordinary ×0.80 | never | ||
| Hand-drawn | 46 | 12 | 5 | 4.3% 1%–15% | 5.1% | cliché ×1.61 | 307 d |   | |
| 3D | 50 | 14 | 2 | 4.0% 1%–13% | 4.8% | avoided ×0.29 | 336 d | | |
| Story Rich | 72 | 27 | 14 | 4.2% 1%–12% | 4.7% | ordinary ×0.62 | 173 d |  | |
| Funny | 96 | 30 | 2 | 4.2% 2%–10% | 4.6% | ordinary ×1.10 | 173 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.
