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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lovecraftian | 12 | 3 | 17 | under 20 | 7.3% | cliché ×2.25 | 718 d |  | |
| Nature | 13 | 3 | 3 | under 20 | 7.1% | ordinary ×0.68 | 551 d |  | |
| Space | 13 | 1 | 1 | under 20 | 7.1% | avoided ×0.34 | 551 d | | |
| Mining | 15 | 6 | 19 | under 20 | 6.7% | cliché ×2.56 | 551 d | | |
| Sci-fi | 47 | 11 | 8 | 6.4% 2%–17% | 6.5% | ordinary ×0.64 | 512 d |    | |
| Underground | 48 | 19 | 12 | 6.3% 2%–17% | 6.4% | cliché ×8.62 | 189 d |   | |
| Fantasy | 216 | 60 | 12 | 5.6% 3%–9% | 5.6% | cliché ×2.23 | 140 d |   | |
| Futuristic | 22 | 5 | 1 | 4.5% 1%–22% | 5.6% | ordinary ×0.61 | 677 d | | |
| Mythology | 22 | 10 | 4 | 4.5% 1%–22% | 5.6% | cliché ×2.56 | 140 d | | |
| Capitalism | 5 | 4 | 6 | under 20 | 5.3% | avoided ×0.32 | never | ||
| Cooking | 5 | 2 | 6 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×0.93 | never | ||
| Underwater | 5 | 2 | 16 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×1.04 | never | ||
| Dark Fantasy | 102 | 35 | 5 | 4.9% 2%–11% | 5.2% | cliché ×3.26 | 186 d |  | |
| Crime | 6 | 1 | 3 | under 20 | 5.1% | ordinary ×0.60 | never | ||
| Historical | 6 | 2 | 2 | under 20 | 5.1% | ordinary ×0.69 | 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.
