Music games on Steam
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Music on Steam: 2,043 released games, 508 in the last 12 months, 533 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 9. 51% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Music 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 included669 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsMusic × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Music at least 5 times · same window| Music × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open World | 20 | 8 | 39 | 30.0% 15%–52% | 18.3% | ordinary ×0.52 | 217 d |    | |
| Visual Novel | 37 | 13 | 61 | 21.6% 11%–37% | 16.4% | ordinary ×0.77 | 159 d |    | |
| Life Sim | 31 | 12 | 52 | 22.6% 11%–40% | 16.3% | ordinary ×0.82 | 200 d |    | |
| Farming Sim | 7 | 1 | 92 | under 20 | 16.0% | ordinary ×0.39 | 440 d |  | |
| Character Customization | 45 | 18 | 25 | 20.0% 11%–34% | 15.9% | ordinary ×0.94 | 161 d |   | |
| Action RPG | 9 | 3 | 90 | under 20 | 14.9% | avoided ×0.25 | 263 d |   | |
| JRPG | 9 | 4 | 235 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×0.42 | 263 d |  | |
| Minigames | 9 | 2 | 43 | under 20 | 14.9% | cliché ×2.30 | 308 d |    | |
| Adventure | 126 | 40 | 22 | 15.9% 11%–23% | 14.6% | ordinary ×0.66 | 159 d |  | |
| Management | 25 | 4 | 22 | 20.0% 9%–39% | 14.1% | ordinary ×0.47 | 440 d | | |
| Action-Adventure | 41 | 10 | 38 | 17.1% 9%–31% | 13.7% | ordinary ×0.39 | 308 d | | |
| RPG | 41 | 18 | 53 | 17.1% 9%–31% | 13.7% | ordinary ×0.37 | 263 d | | |
| Sports | 27 | 9 | 14 | 18.5% 8%–37% | 13.5% | ordinary ×1.28 | 377 d |    | |
| Souls-like | 5 | 1 | 170 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.52 | 161 d | | |
| Building | 20 | 6 | 21 | 20.0% 8%–42% | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.46 | 440 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.
