Mystery Dungeon games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Mystery Dungeon on Steam: 1,487 released games, 411 in the last 12 months, 592 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 6. 56% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Mystery Dungeon 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 included707 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsMystery Dungeon × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Mystery Dungeon at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Mystery Dungeon × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lore-Rich | 40 | 14 | 15 | 12.5% 5%–26% | 10.6% | cliché ×1.65 | 512 d |    | |
| Comic Book | 12 | 2 | 10 | under 20 | 10.4% | ordinary ×0.87 | 677 d |  | |
| Difficult | 22 | 8 | 25 | 13.6% 5%–33% | 10.3% | ordinary ×0.88 | 189 d |    | |
| Anime | 77 | 16 | 36 | 10.4% 5%–19% | 9.6% | ordinary ×0.99 | 214 d |    | |
| Hand-drawn | 41 | 14 | 12 | 9.8% 4%–23% | 8.7% | ordinary ×1.07 | 566 d |    | |
| Dark Comedy | 10 | 4 | 5 | under 20 | 7.8% | ordinary ×1.27 | 1091 d | | |
| Dark Humor | 15 | 7 | 12 | under 20 | 6.7% | ordinary ×1.04 | 1091 d | | |
| Gore | 18 | 7 | 12 | under 20 | 6.1% | ordinary ×0.78 | 390 d | | |
| Violent | 19 | 6 | 9 | under 20 | 6.0% | ordinary ×0.67 | 718 d | | |
| Story Rich | 123 | 36 | 12 | 5.7% 3%–11% | 5.8% | ordinary ×1.03 | 319 d |  | |
| Dark | 150 | 43 | 6 | 5.3% 3%–10% | 5.5% | cliché ×2.47 | 140 d |  | |
| Third Person | 78 | 21 | 5 | 5.1% 2%–12% | 5.4% | ordinary ×1.30 | 349 d |  | |
| Isometric | 23 | 8 | 14 | 4.3% 1%–21% | 5.4% | cliché ×1.58 | 189 d | | |
| Colorful | 101 | 26 | 6 | 5.0% 2%–11% | 5.2% | ordinary ×0.89 | 343 d |  | |
| Cartoon | 26 | 7 | 5 | 3.8% 1%–19% | 5.1% | ordinary ×1.02 | 1091 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.
