Narrative games on Steam
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Narrative on Steam: 1,252 released games, 619 in the last 12 months, 914 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 27. 33% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Narrative 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 included558 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsNarrative × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Narrative at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Narrative × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Driving | 8 | 2 | 1,100 | under 20 | 26.2% | ordinary ×0.72 | 125 d |    | |
| Management | 18 | 9 | 60 | under 20 | 21.9% | ordinary ×0.81 | 161 d |    | |
| Crafting | 11 | 5 | 168 | under 20 | 20.4% | ordinary ×0.53 | 174 d |  | |
| Point & Click | 103 | 47 | 52 | 21.4% 15%–30% | 19.0% | cliché ×3.12 | 96 d |    | |
| Combat | 35 | 16 | 31 | 25.7% 14%–42% | 18.8% | ordinary ×0.47 | 145 d |    | |
| Shooter | 14 | 1 | 18 | under 20 | 18.6% | avoided ×0.30 | 145 d | | |
| Hidden Object | 26 | 9 | 46 | 26.9% 14%–46% | 18.1% | ordinary ×1.13 | 187 d |    | |
| Creature Collector | 5 | 2 | 612 | under 20 | 17.3% | ordinary ×0.54 | 187 d |  | |
| CRPG | 11 | 6 | 114 | under 20 | 17.2% | ordinary ×1.21 | 224 d |  | |
| FPS | 11 | 4 | 18 | under 20 | 17.2% | ordinary ×0.42 | 145 d |  | |
| Nonlinear | 30 | 17 | 22 | 23.3% 12%–41% | 16.7% | cliché ×2.06 | 96 d |  | |
| Collectathon | 12 | 3 | 28 | under 20 | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.82 | 187 d | | |
| Immersive Sim | 26 | 7 | 108 | 23.1% 11%–42% | 15.9% | ordinary ×1.09 | 166 d | | |
| Resource Management | 20 | 12 | 49 | 25.0% 11%–47% | 15.8% | ordinary ×0.77 | 173 d |   | |
| Choices Matter | 141 | 64 | 31 | 17.0% 12%–24% | 15.7% | cliché ×3.35 | 96 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.
