Mystery games on Steam
Mystery on Steam: 12,367 released games, 4,340 in the last 12 months, 6,501 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 48% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Mystery 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 included5,838 releasesp100
p250
median11
p7549
p90250
48% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $5.99 · 10% free-to-play
Releases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago — anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2019
273med 114 · 16% unseen
2020
589med 38 · 24% unseen
2021
922med 25 · 31% unseen
2022
986med 28 · 30% unseen
2023
1,234med 19 · 37% unseen
2024
1,771med 17 · 40% unseen
2025
2,154med 13 · 45% unseen
2026
2,312med 0 · 64% unseen · 796 too fresh
Best known here
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Latest releases
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