Metroidvania games on Steam
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Metroidvania on Steam: 2,227 released games, 619 in the last 12 months, 1,596 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 16. 38% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 6%. Metroidvania 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 included838 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsMetroidvania × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Metroidvania at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Metroidvania × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martial Arts | 8 | 0 | 901 | under 20 | 22.6% | cliché ×1.54 | 411 d |    | |
| Female Protagonist | 159 | 43 | 45 | 17.6% 12%–24% | 16.4% | cliché ×2.30 | 111 d |    | |
| Dark Fantasy | 151 | 52 | 34 | 17.2% 12%–24% | 16.0% | cliché ×3.70 | 141 d |  | |
| Horror | 68 | 19 | 62 | 16.2% 9%–27% | 14.0% | ordinary ×0.88 | 474 d |   | |
| Ninja | 11 | 1 | 21 | under 20 | 14.0% | cliché ×3.48 | 411 d |  | |
| Demons | 43 | 14 | 20 | 16.3% 8%–30% | 13.2% | cliché ×1.74 | 307 d |   | |
| Mythology | 30 | 8 | 20 | 16.7% 7%–34% | 12.7% | cliché ×2.40 | 483 d |   | |
| Gothic | 32 | 11 | 21 | 15.6% 7%–32% | 12.2% | cliché ×4.63 | 337 d |   | |
| Cats | 25 | 5 | 42 | 16.0% 6%–35% | 11.9% | ordinary ×1.31 | 187 d |   | |
| Dystopian | 9 | 3 | 34 | under 20 | 11.5% | cliché ×1.56 | 336 d |  | |
| Steampunk | 9 | 2 | 77 | under 20 | 11.5% | cliché ×2.24 | 819 d |   | |
| Time Travel | 9 | 0 | 34 | under 20 | 11.5% | cliché ×1.81 | 397 d |   | |
| Fantasy | 244 | 75 | 20 | 11.1% 8%–16% | 10.7% | cliché ×2.07 | 111 d |  | |
| Medieval | 68 | 21 | 15 | 10.3% 5%–20% | 9.5% | cliché ×1.58 | 166 d |   | |
| Dating Sim | 5 | 3 | 53 | under 20 | 9.3% | avoided ×0.09 | 166 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.
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