Minigames games on Steam
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Minigames on Steam: 773 released games, 242 in the last 12 months, 271 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 45% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Minigames 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 included297 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsMinigames × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Minigames at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Minigames × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music | 9 | 2 | 43 | under 20 | 14.9% | cliché ×2.30 | 308 d |    | |
| Fishing | 13 | 7 | 32 | under 20 | 13.1% | cliché ×3.34 | 267 d |    | |
| Space | 9 | 0 | 9 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.83 | 525 d |   | |
| Horror | 13 | 3 | 17 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.50 | 525 d | | |
| Sci-fi | 15 | 4 | 9 | under 20 | 9.5% | ordinary ×0.60 | 525 d | | |
| 1980s | 8 | 1 | 4 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×1.24 | 755 d |  | |
| Sports | 8 | 1 | 11 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×1.26 | 755 d | | |
| Romance | 21 | 7 | 29 | 9.5% 3%–29% | 8.1% | ordinary ×1.42 | 638 d |  | |
| Cooking | 9 | 2 | 32 | under 20 | 8.0% | cliché ×1.98 | 638 d | | |
| Fantasy | 47 | 18 | 3 | 8.5% 3%–20% | 8.0% | ordinary ×0.92 | 215 d |   | |
| Female Protagonist | 35 | 9 | 23 | 8.6% 3%–22% | 7.9% | ordinary ×1.15 | 495 d |  | |
| Medieval | 10 | 3 | 29 | under 20 | 7.8% | ordinary ×0.53 | 215 d | | |
| Detective | 11 | 2 | 5 | under 20 | 7.5% | ordinary ×1.31 | 495 d | | |
| Psychological Horror | 11 | 3 | 30 | under 20 | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.60 | 1056 d |  | |
| Modern | 13 | 3 | 18 | under 20 | 7.1% | cliché ×1.58 | 907 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.
