The niche at a glance

Motocross on Steam: 119 released games, 21 in the last 12 months, 28 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 5. 57% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 7%. Motocross 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 included47 releases
p100
p251
median5
p7541
p90380
57% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $5.99 · 7% free-to-play

Releases per year

outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews
2019
4med 848 · 0% unseen
2020
5med 45 · 20% unseen
2021
16med 36 · 25% unseen
2022
14med 27 · 36% unseen
2023
19med 23 · 21% unseen
2024
17med 6 · 59% unseen
2025
16med 5 · 63% unseen
2026
15med 3 · 58% unseen · 3 too fresh

Motocross × presentation: what the pairings end up with

every presentation tag shipped with Motocross at least 5 times · same window
share reaching 500 reviews, shrunk towards the catalogue · click a row to open the concept
Motocross ×3 y12 mmedian≥500adjusted vs chancelast hitwho made it
Atmospheric6214under 2012.8%
ordinary ×0.56243 d
Laika: Aged Through Blood
RIDE 6
Laika: Aged Through Blood · RIDE 6
Realistic1466under 209.8%
cliché ×3.44243 d
Sledders
RIDE 6
Sledders · RIDE 6
Difficult518under 209.3%
cliché ×1.881090 d
Laika: Aged Through Blood
Laika: Aged Through Blood
Family Friendly5346under 209.3%
ordinary ×0.95243 d
RIDE 6
RIDE 6
Third Person18726under 208.8%
cliché ×3.78243 d
Sledders
RIDE 6
Sledders · RIDE 6
First-Person15718under 206.7%
cliché ×1.86243 d
RIDE 6
RIDE 6
2.5D534under 205.3%
cliché ×3.08never
Colorful633under 205.1%
ordinary ×1.03never
Relaxing612under 205.1%
ordinary ×0.85never
3D26753.8% 1%–19%5.1%
cliché ×1.90572 d
Sledders
Sledders
Top-Down816under 204.8%
ordinary ×1.19never
2D930under 204.6%
ordinary ×0.40never
1 pairings cleared 20 releases; 58 more never reached 5 and are not listed. Compared against 6.7% for games that carry any tags at all.

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.