Mechs games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Mechs on Steam: 1,084 released games, 309 in the last 12 months, 503 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 16. 41% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Mechs 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 included428 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsMechs × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Mechs at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Mechs × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Third-Person Shooter | 51 | 13 | 49 | 31.4% 20%–45% | 24.4% | cliché ×5.65 | 166 d |    | |
| Beat 'em up | 15 | 1 | 469 | under 20 | 23.8% | cliché ×2.31 | 394 d |    | |
| Action RPG | 33 | 3 | 94 | 33.3% 20%–50% | 23.3% | ordinary ×1.37 | 385 d |   | |
| Open World | 25 | 6 | 159 | 36.0% 20%–55% | 23.0% | ordinary ×0.92 | 113 d |    | |
| RPG | 100 | 27 | 31 | 25.0% 18%–34% | 21.9% | ordinary ×1.20 | 279 d |   | |
| Hack and Slash | 32 | 5 | 135 | 31.3% 18%–49% | 21.8% | cliché ×2.11 | 394 d | | |
| Character Customization | 75 | 16 | 49 | 25.3% 17%–36% | 21.4% | cliché ×2.71 | 394 d |  | |
| Extraction Shooter | 6 | 1 | 3,459 | under 20 | 20.5% | cliché ×5.66 | 113 d |  | |
| Mining | 11 | 4 | 440 | under 20 | 20.4% | cliché ×2.59 | 336 d |   | |
| Looter Shooter | 16 | 4 | 185 | under 20 | 20.4% | cliché ×4.02 | 166 d |   | |
| Shooter | 142 | 34 | 24 | 21.1% 15%–29% | 19.3% | cliché ×3.66 | 111 d |  | |
| Crafting | 25 | 8 | 69 | 28.0% 14%–48% | 18.5% | ordinary ×1.00 | 166 d | | |
| Dungeon Crawler | 10 | 2 | 156 | under 20 | 17.8% | ordinary ×0.73 | 201 d |    | |
| Turn-Based | 10 | 4 | 357 | under 20 | 17.8% | cliché ×2.73 | 707 d |   | |
| Action-Adventure | 61 | 16 | 43 | 21.3% 13%–33% | 17.7% | ordinary ×1.19 | 117 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.
