The niche at a glance

Medical Sim on Steam: 316 released games, 112 in the last 12 months, 164 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 49% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 13%. Medical Sim 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 included135 releases
p100
p252
median11
p7572
p90349
49% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $8.99 · 13% free-to-play

Releases per year

outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews
2019
7med 273 · 14% unseen
2020
21med 64 · 19% unseen
2021
23med 44 · 22% unseen
2022
33med 20 · 12% unseen
2023
23med 13 · 39% unseen
2024
34med 13 · 44% unseen
2025
49med 7 · 55% unseen
2026
70med 12 · 49% unseen · 25 too fresh

Medical Sim × presentation: what the pairings end up with

every presentation tag shipped with Medical Sim at least 5 times · same window
share reaching 500 reviews, shrunk towards the catalogue · click a row to open the concept
Medical Sim ×3 y12 mmedian≥500adjusted vs chancelast hitwho made it
Minimalist8413under 2011.9%
ordinary ×0.75135 d
Gorilla Simulator
Gaming Burnout Treatment Center
Gorilla Simulator · Gaming Burnout Treatment Center
Atmospheric34194914.7% 6%–30%11.7%
ordinary ×1.16327 d
Autopsy Simulator
Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator
Do No Harm
Autopsy Simulator · Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator · Do No Harm
Relaxing2091415.0% 5%–36%10.8%
ordinary ×1.34135 d
Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator
Galacticare
Gaming Burnout Treatment Center
Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator · Galacticare · Gaming Burnout Treatment Center
Dark Humor12371under 2010.4%
cliché ×3.15327 d
CURE - A Hospital Simulator
Galacticare
CURE - A Hospital Simulator · Galacticare
3D42131611.9% 5%–25%10.2%
ordinary ×1.37219 d
War Hospital
Do No Harm
CURE - A Hospital Simulator
War Hospital · Do No Harm · CURE - A Hospital Simulator
Gore13529under 2010.1%
cliché ×1.81614 d
Autopsy Simulator
Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator
Autopsy Simulator · Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator
Text-Based1479under 209.8%
cliché ×1.82135 d
Night Shift Nurses
Gaming Burnout Treatment Center
Night Shift Nurses · Gaming Burnout Treatment Center
Story Rich45191811.1% 5%–23%9.7%
ordinary ×1.41586 d
Autopsy Simulator
War Hospital
Do No Harm
Autopsy Simulator · War Hospital · Do No Harm
Abstract5222under 209.3%
ordinary ×0.92135 d
Gaming Burnout Treatment Center
Gaming Burnout Treatment Center
Anime16613under 209.3%
ordinary ×0.84592 d
BM General Hospital
Night Shift Nurses
BM General Hospital · Night Shift Nurses
Realistic28131910.7% 4%–27%9.0%
cliché ×2.79327 d
Autopsy Simulator
Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator
CURE - A Hospital Simulator
Autopsy Simulator · Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator · CURE - A Hospital Simulator
Dark191028under 208.5%
cliché ×1.54586 d
Autopsy Simulator
Do No Harm
Autopsy Simulator · Do No Harm
Funny1994under 208.5%
ordinary ×1.38135 d
Galacticare
Gaming Burnout Treatment Center
Galacticare · Gaming Burnout Treatment Center
Third Person8116under 208.3%
ordinary ×0.71614 d
Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator
Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator
Cute217149.5% 3%–29%8.1%
ordinary ×1.00135 d
Gorilla Simulator
Gaming Burnout Treatment Center
Gorilla Simulator · Gaming Burnout Treatment Center
10 pairings cleared 20 releases; 33 more never reached 5 and are not listed. Compared against 6.7% for games that carry any tags at all.

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.