Metroidvania games on Steam
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Metroidvania on Steam: 2,227 released games, 619 in the last 12 months, 1,595 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gore | 27 | 9 | 155 | 37.0% 22%–56% | 24.1% | ordinary ×0.94 | 151 d |    | |
| Difficult | 95 | 26 | 68 | 26.3% 19%–36% | 22.9% | cliché ×3.09 | 141 d |   | |
| Violent | 24 | 8 | 88 | 33.3% 18%–53% | 21.2% | ordinary ×0.90 | 439 d |  | |
| Anime | 92 | 29 | 48 | 19.6% 13%–29% | 17.3% | ordinary ×1.18 | 111 d |   | |
| Hand-drawn | 123 | 37 | 46 | 17.1% 11%–25% | 15.6% | cliché ×2.51 | 187 d | | |
| Dark | 81 | 21 | 25 | 17.3% 11%–27% | 15.2% | ordinary ×1.39 | 151 d |  | |
| Horror | 68 | 19 | 62 | 16.2% 9%–27% | 14.0% | ordinary ×0.88 | 474 d |  | |
| Atmospheric | 258 | 77 | 30 | 14.0% 10%–19% | 13.4% | cliché ×1.74 | 151 d | | |
| Psychedelic | 20 | 7 | 77 | 20.0% 8%–42% | 13.3% | ordinary ×1.05 | 113 d |    | |
| Stylized | 122 | 46 | 19 | 13.9% 9%–21% | 12.9% | ordinary ×1.23 | 196 d |   | |
| First-Person | 45 | 11 | 33 | 15.6% 8%–29% | 12.8% | avoided ×0.33 | 337 d |  | |
| Side Scroller | 204 | 50 | 31 | 13.2% 9%–19% | 12.6% | cliché ×6.74 | 111 d | | |
| Gothic | 32 | 11 | 21 | 15.6% 7%–32% | 12.2% | cliché ×4.63 | 337 d |   | |
| Isometric | 16 | 4 | 23 | under 20 | 12.0% | ordinary ×0.58 | 713 d |    | |
| Dark Comedy | 8 | 2 | 64 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.84 | 921 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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