Memes games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Memes on Steam: 2,706 released games, 501 in the last 12 months, 643 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 18. 37% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. Memes 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 included779 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsMemes × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Memes at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Memes × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dating Sim | 43 | 8 | 74 | 30.2% 19%–45% | 22.8% | cliché ×2.56 | 250 d |    | |
| FPS | 51 | 10 | 68 | 23.5% 14%–37% | 18.8% | ordinary ×1.33 | 102 d |    | |
| Souls-like | 32 | 7 | 22 | 25.0% 13%–42% | 18.0% | cliché ×1.54 | 114 d |    | |
| Multiple Endings | 66 | 18 | 29 | 21.2% 13%–33% | 17.8% | ordinary ×1.19 | 250 d |  | |
| Investigation | 12 | 4 | 18 | under 20 | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.40 | 168 d |    | |
| Visual Novel | 97 | 25 | 30 | 18.6% 12%–27% | 16.5% | cliché ×1.59 | 168 d | | |
| Shoot 'Em Up | 15 | 3 | 20 | under 20 | 15.3% | ordinary ×0.76 | 114 d |   | |
| Choices Matter | 58 | 17 | 21 | 17.2% 10%–29% | 14.5% | ordinary ×0.95 | 391 d |  | |
| Life Sim | 65 | 21 | 34 | 16.9% 10%–28% | 14.5% | cliché ×1.79 | 251 d |   | |
| Cooking | 10 | 4 | 100 | under 20 | 14.5% | ordinary ×1.01 | 817 d |   | |
| Immersive Sim | 78 | 24 | 30 | 15.4% 9%–25% | 13.6% | ordinary ×1.27 | 167 d |  | |
| Puzzle | 117 | 38 | 22 | 14.5% 9%–22% | 13.4% | ordinary ×0.72 | 159 d | | |
| Gun Customization | 5 | 4 | 14 | under 20 | 13.4% | ordinary ×0.52 | 102 d |  | |
| Building | 13 | 4 | 38 | under 20 | 13.2% | ordinary ×0.43 | 251 d |   | |
| Simulation | 250 | 73 | 34 | 13.6% 10%–18% | 13.1% | ordinary ×1.47 | 102 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.
