Mining games on Steam
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Mining on Steam: 1,361 released games, 710 in the last 12 months, 871 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 15. 43% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 7%. Mining 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 included571 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsMining × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Mining at least 5 times · same window| Mining × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cozy | 34 | 20 | 44 | 29.4% 17%–46% | 21.0% | cliché ×2.70 | 131 d |    | |
| First-Person | 78 | 36 | 31 | 23.1% 15%–34% | 19.7% | ordinary ×1.06 | 110 d |    | |
| Colorful | 126 | 67 | 15 | 18.3% 12%–26% | 16.7% | ordinary ×1.20 | 137 d |  | |
| Realistic | 32 | 15 | 27 | 21.9% 11%–39% | 16.0% | ordinary ×0.74 | 182 d |    | |
| Isometric | 18 | 9 | 102 | under 20 | 14.0% | ordinary ×1.37 | 176 d |    | |
| Relaxing | 168 | 85 | 26 | 14.9% 10%–21% | 14.0% | cliché ×2.35 | 131 d |  | |
| Top-Down | 98 | 39 | 17 | 14.3% 9%–23% | 13.0% | cliché ×1.85 | 176 d |    | |
| Experimental | 6 | 2 | 126 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×1.00 | 137 d |  | |
| 3D | 155 | 65 | 18 | 13.5% 9%–20% | 12.8% | ordinary ×1.07 | 110 d | | |
| Voxel | 31 | 14 | 36 | 16.1% 7%–33% | 12.4% | cliché ×8.80 | 189 d |  | |
| Pixel Graphics | 180 | 86 | 13 | 12.8% 9%–18% | 12.2% | cliché ×1.96 | 131 d |   | |
| Minimalist | 66 | 41 | 18 | 13.6% 7%–24% | 12.0% | cliché ×1.72 | 131 d | | |
| Abstract | 8 | 5 | 145 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.74 | 131 d |  | |
| Emotional | 8 | 4 | 26 | under 20 | 11.9% | avoided ×0.23 | 173 d |   | |
| Lore-Rich | 8 | 5 | 26 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.71 | 329 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.
