Minigames games on Steam
The niche at a glance
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 included296 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsMinigames × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychological | 10 | 3 | 91 | under 20 | 17.8% | ordinary ×1.14 | 325 d |    | |
| Music | 9 | 2 | 43 | under 20 | 14.9% | cliché ×2.30 | 308 d |    | |
| Cartoon | 32 | 10 | 17 | 18.8% 9%–35% | 14.1% | cliché ×2.15 | 166 d |  | |
| Cartoony | 56 | 18 | 14 | 16.1% 9%–28% | 13.6% | cliché ×2.44 | 267 d | | |
| Violent | 5 | 2 | 187 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.46 | 215 d |   | |
| 3D | 75 | 24 | 29 | 14.7% 8%–24% | 13.0% | ordinary ×0.97 | 166 d |  | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 14 | 5 | 27 | under 20 | 12.7% | cliché ×1.80 | 525 d |   | |
| Funny | 104 | 38 | 22 | 12.5% 7%–20% | 11.6% | cliché ×3.23 | 267 d | | |
| Comedy | 62 | 22 | 19 | 12.9% 7%–23% | 11.4% | cliché ×3.26 | 267 d | | |
| Hand-drawn | 28 | 11 | 11 | 14.3% 6%–31% | 11.1% | ordinary ×1.37 | 308 d | | |
| Colorful | 139 | 48 | 13 | 11.5% 7%–18% | 10.9% | cliché ×2.40 | 166 d | | |
| Cute | 107 | 45 | 23 | 11.2% 7%–19% | 10.5% | cliché ×2.08 | 166 d | | |
| Retro | 42 | 16 | 4 | 11.9% 5%–25% | 10.2% | ordinary ×1.46 | 355 d |   | |
| Horror | 13 | 3 | 17 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.50 | 525 d |  | |
| Emotional | 15 | 9 | 27 | under 20 | 9.5% | ordinary ×1.01 | 215 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.
