Music-Based Procedural Generation games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Music-Based Procedural Generation on Steam: 462 released games, 149 in the last 12 months, 166 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 6. 59% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 15%. Music-Based Procedural Generation 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 included165 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsMusic-Based Procedural Generation × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Music-Based Procedural Generation at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Music-Based Procedural Generation × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female Protagonist | 13 | 4 | 10 | under 20 | 13.2% | ordinary ×0.75 | 616 d |    | |
| Mystery | 5 | 1 | 17 | under 20 | 9.4% | ordinary ×0.42 | 685 d | | |
| Nature | 11 | 1 | 13 | under 20 | 7.6% | ordinary ×1.17 | 1044 d | | |
| Space | 13 | 3 | 5 | under 20 | 7.1% | cliché ×1.66 | 844 d |  | |
| Music | 61 | 23 | 9 | 6.6% 3%–16% | 6.6% | cliché ×38.12 | 199 d |  | |
| Aliens | 6 | 4 | 0 | under 20 | 5.2% | ordinary ×0.69 | never | ||
| Robots | 6 | 4 | 2 | under 20 | 5.2% | ordinary ×0.91 | never | ||
| 1980s | 7 | 3 | 4 | under 20 | 5.0% | cliché ×1.62 | never | ||
| Cats | 8 | 2 | 7 | under 20 | 4.8% | cliché ×1.62 | never | ||
| Fantasy | 12 | 4 | 5 | under 20 | 4.2% | ordinary ×0.43 | never | ||
| Cyberpunk | 14 | 5 | 2 | under 20 | 3.9% | cliché ×3.62 | never | ||
| Sci-fi | 14 | 6 | 4 | under 20 | 3.9% | ordinary ×1.05 | never | ||
| Futuristic | 23 | 6 | 5 | 0.0% -0%–14% | 3.1% | cliché ×2.84 | never |
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.
