The niche at a glance

Multiplayer on Steam: 17,550 released games, 3,864 in the last 12 months, 10,246 announced and still unreleased. Of the 6,733 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 18 lifetime reviews. 39% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 20%. Multiplayer 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 included6,733 releases
p101
p253
median18
p75141
p901,315
39% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $7.99 · 20% 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
723median 429 · 12% under 10 reviews
2020
1,201median 82 · 22% under 10 reviews
2021
1,315median 44 · 26% under 10 reviews
2022
1,434median 38 · 26% under 10 reviews
2023
1,718median 35 · 29% under 10 reviews
2024
2,079median 25 · 33% under 10 reviews
2025
2,456median 19 · 38% under 10 reviews
2026
3,362median 11 · 48% under 10 reviews · 1,508 too fresh