Match 3 games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Match 3 on Steam: 1,819 released games, 380 in the last 12 months, 294 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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sci-fi | 15 | 4 | 4 | under 20 | 12.4% | avoided ×0.25 | 252 d |    | |
| Cyberpunk | 5 | 1 | 35 | under 20 | 9.4% | ordinary ×0.56 | 252 d | | |
| Futuristic | 9 | 2 | 3 | under 20 | 8.1% | ordinary ×0.42 | 500 d | | |
| Space | 13 | 0 | 2 | under 20 | 7.1% | ordinary ×0.53 | 976 d | | |
| Dogs | 15 | 5 | 0 | under 20 | 6.7% | cliché ×2.31 | 308 d |  | |
| Dark Fantasy | 21 | 8 | 2 | 4.8% 1%–23% | 5.7% | ordinary ×0.59 | 733 d |  | |
| Aliens | 5 | 0 | 2 | under 20 | 5.4% | avoided ×0.32 | never | ||
| Ninja | 5 | 2 | 2 | under 20 | 5.4% | ordinary ×0.72 | never | ||
| Pirates | 5 | 2 | 6 | under 20 | 5.4% | ordinary ×1.32 | never | ||
| Robots | 5 | 1 | 1 | under 20 | 5.4% | avoided ×0.26 | never | ||
| Supernatural | 5 | 1 | 30 | under 20 | 5.4% | avoided ×0.20 | never | ||
| Time Travel | 5 | 2 | 2 | under 20 | 5.4% | ordinary ×0.51 | never | ||
| LGBTQ+ | 24 | 6 | 7 | 4.2% 1%–20% | 5.3% | ordinary ×1.17 | 733 d | | |
| Modern | 6 | 4 | 2 | under 20 | 5.2% | ordinary ×0.61 | never | ||
| Noir | 6 | 1 | 0 | under 20 | 5.2% | ordinary ×0.73 | never |
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.
