Minimalist games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Minimalist on Steam: 10,049 released games, 2,488 in the last 12 months, 3,696 announced and still unreleased. Of the 4,576 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 7 lifetime reviews. 55% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Minimalist 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 included4,576 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsMinimalist × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Minimalist at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Minimalist × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job Simulator | 20 | 11 | 26 | 25.0% 11%–47% | 15.8% | ordinary ×0.63 | 128 d |    | |
| Organizing | 11 | 9 | 15 | under 20 | 14.0% | ordinary ×1.20 | 128 d |    | |
| Decorating | 6 | 4 | 56 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.74 | 195 d |  | |
| Skiing | 6 | 0 | 59 | under 20 | 12.8% | cliché ×1.72 | 435 d |   | |
| Fishing | 31 | 13 | 6 | 16.1% 7%–33% | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.75 | 197 d |    | |
| Medical Sim | 7 | 4 | 13 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.74 | 150 d |   | |
| Base Building | 152 | 48 | 14 | 12.5% 8%–19% | 11.8% | ordinary ×0.89 | 128 d |    | |
| Colony Sim | 59 | 22 | 18 | 13.6% 7%–25% | 11.8% | ordinary ×1.19 | 425 d |   | |
| Trains | 28 | 9 | 26 | 14.3% 6%–31% | 11.1% | cliché ×1.51 | 425 d |   | |
| Mining | 74 | 47 | 24 | 12.2% 7%–22% | 11.0% | cliché ×1.55 | 146 d |    | |
| Party-Based RPG | 20 | 6 | 5 | 15.0% 5%–36% | 10.8% | avoided ×0.31 | 198 d |    | |
| Creature Collector | 316 | 97 | 34 | 11.1% 8%–15% | 10.8% | cliché ×2.06 | 204 d |    | |
| Escape Room | 21 | 4 | 20 | 14.3% 5%–35% | 10.6% | ordinary ×0.79 | 643 d |    | |
| Economy | 255 | 133 | 15 | 10.6% 7%–15% | 10.3% | cliché ×1.53 | 114 d |   | |
| City Builder | 131 | 37 | 16 | 10.7% 6%–17% | 10.1% | cliché ×1.51 | 195 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.
