Ninja games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Ninja on Steam: 839 released games, 160 in the last 12 months, 240 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 6. 56% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Ninja 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 included321 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsNinja × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Ninja at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Ninja × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Action RPG | 25 | 7 | 169 | 40.0% 23%–59% | 25.2% | cliché ×1.95 | 223 d |    | |
| Open World | 15 | 3 | 169 | under 20 | 23.8% | ordinary ×0.84 | 250 d |  | |
| Exploration | 30 | 7 | 48 | 30.0% 17%–48% | 20.7% | ordinary ×0.55 | 488 d |  | |
| Character Customization | 23 | 5 | 47 | 30.4% 16%–51% | 19.4% | ordinary ×1.33 | 250 d |  | |
| Fighting | 18 | 7 | 117 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×8.76 | 111 d |   | |
| RPG | 51 | 17 | 32 | 19.6% 11%–32% | 16.0% | ordinary ×0.88 | 223 d | | |
| Spectacle fighter | 14 | 4 | 20 | under 20 | 15.7% | cliché ×7.97 | 358 d |    | |
| Swordplay | 56 | 14 | 14 | 17.9% 10%–30% | 14.9% | cliché ×17.90 | 349 d | | |
| 3D Fighter | 23 | 9 | 13 | 21.7% 10%–42% | 14.7% | cliché ×6.28 | 111 d | | |
| JRPG | 10 | 5 | 85 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.50 | 250 d |   | |
| Metroidvania | 11 | 1 | 21 | under 20 | 14.0% | cliché ×3.48 | 411 d |    | |
| Hack and Slash | 63 | 14 | 16 | 15.9% 9%–27% | 13.7% | cliché ×6.64 | 250 d | | |
| Roguelike Deckbuilder | 5 | 1 | 21 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×1.28 | 665 d |   | |
| Action-Adventure | 81 | 18 | 9 | 14.8% 9%–24% | 13.2% | cliché ×2.16 | 223 d | | |
| Creature Collector | 6 | 0 | 70 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.64 | 974 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.
