Modern games on Steam
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Modern on Steam: 3,135 released games, 1,018 in the last 12 months, 1,318 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 12. 47% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Modern 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 included1,494 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsModern × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Modern at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Modern × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Naval Combat | 5 | 3 | 1,353 | under 20 | 17.3% | ordinary ×1.46 | 131 d |    | |
| Souls-like | 6 | 3 | 80 | under 20 | 16.7% | avoided ×0.34 | 196 d |    | |
| Driving | 48 | 18 | 33 | 20.8% 12%–34% | 16.7% | cliché ×2.26 | 166 d |    | |
| Destruction | 31 | 16 | 10 | 22.6% 11%–40% | 16.3% | cliché ×1.73 | 173 d |   | |
| Automobile Sim | 41 | 16 | 27 | 19.5% 10%–34% | 15.3% | cliché ×2.86 | 166 d | | |
| Tactical | 95 | 32 | 15 | 16.8% 11%–26% | 15.1% | cliché ×1.65 | 173 d |   | |
| Battle Royale | 10 | 1 | 26 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.13 | 350 d |  | |
| Football (Soccer) | 10 | 5 | 8 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.35 | 265 d |    | |
| FPS | 117 | 39 | 29 | 15.4% 10%–23% | 14.1% | cliché ×1.51 | 112 d |  | |
| Vehicular Combat | 18 | 9 | 42 | under 20 | 14.0% | cliché ×1.68 | 131 d |  | |
| Wargame | 40 | 13 | 33 | 17.5% 9%–32% | 13.9% | cliché ×2.35 | 196 d |   | |
| Base Building | 33 | 6 | 50 | 18.2% 9%–34% | 13.8% | ordinary ×0.78 | 434 d |  | |
| Third-Person Shooter | 33 | 9 | 11 | 18.2% 9%–34% | 13.8% | ordinary ×1.41 | 131 d |  | |
| RTS | 41 | 16 | 32 | 17.1% 9%–31% | 13.7% | cliché ×1.60 | 196 d | | |
| Real-Time with Pause | 5 | 1 | 157 | under 20 | 13.3% | cliché ×2.70 | 263 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.
