Modern games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Modern on Steam: 3,154 released games, 1,028 in the last 12 months, 1,327 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 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 included1,501 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsModern × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 50 | 12 | 32 | 22.0% 13%–35% | 17.6% | ordinary ×0.94 | 229 d |    | |
| FMV | 33 | 8 | 161 | 24.2% 13%–41% | 17.6% | cliché ×4.26 | 169 d |    | |
| Cinematic | 108 | 36 | 19 | 16.7% 11%–25% | 15.1% | cliché ×2.11 | 110 d |  | |
| Difficult | 23 | 6 | 8 | 17.4% 7%–37% | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.43 | 169 d |    | |
| Music | 15 | 8 | 5 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.36 | 169 d |   | |
| VR | 41 | 9 | 18 | 14.6% 7%–28% | 12.0% | ordinary ×0.87 | 173 d |   | |
| Lore-Rich | 45 | 13 | 18 | 13.3% 6%–26% | 11.3% | ordinary ×1.26 | 277 d |  | |
| Realistic | 391 | 120 | 29 | 11.5% 9%–15% | 11.3% | cliché ×3.18 | 110 d | | |
| Gore | 39 | 15 | 26 | 12.8% 6%–27% | 10.7% | ordinary ×0.63 | 199 d |  | |
| Isometric | 31 | 12 | 11 | 12.9% 5%–29% | 10.5% | ordinary ×0.91 | 111 d |   | |
| Memes | 33 | 11 | 17 | 12.1% 5%–27% | 10.1% | cliché ×2.12 | 167 d |    | |
| First-Person | 393 | 121 | 22 | 8.9% 6%–12% | 8.8% | cliché ×1.66 | 110 d |  | |
| Dark | 99 | 33 | 14 | 9.1% 5%–16% | 8.7% | ordinary ×0.89 | 229 d |  | |
| Thriller | 54 | 20 | 12 | 9.3% 4%–20% | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.30 | 199 d |   | |
| Family Friendly | 149 | 50 | 9 | 8.7% 5%–14% | 8.5% | ordinary ×1.11 | 194 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.
