Nonlinear games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Nonlinear on Steam: 3,326 released games, 1,242 in the last 12 months, 2,280 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 12. 46% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Nonlinear 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 included1,522 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsNonlinear × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Nonlinear at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Nonlinear × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sailing | 13 | 9 | 138 | under 20 | 16.2% | cliché ×1.82 | 214 d |    | |
| Naval | 8 | 6 | 174 | under 20 | 15.5% | ordinary ×1.07 | 214 d |  | |
| Mythology | 24 | 6 | 19 | 20.8% 9%–40% | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.42 | 124 d |    | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 77 | 25 | 21 | 15.6% 9%–25% | 13.7% | cliché ×1.60 | 245 d |    | |
| Underwater | 19 | 6 | 15 | under 20 | 13.7% | cliché ×1.83 | 628 d |    | |
| Pirates | 12 | 6 | 16 | under 20 | 13.5% | ordinary ×1.16 | 214 d | | |
| World War II | 5 | 3 | 281 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.55 | 200 d |   | |
| Farming Sim | 21 | 11 | 22 | 19.0% 8%–40% | 13.0% | ordinary ×0.84 | 313 d |    | |
| Mechs | 6 | 1 | 78 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.93 | 569 d |   | |
| Western | 6 | 3 | 10 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×1.32 | 364 d |   | |
| Historical | 41 | 12 | 29 | 14.6% 7%–28% | 12.0% | ordinary ×1.28 | 124 d | | |
| Job Simulator | 8 | 5 | 131 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.80 | 424 d |   | |
| Underground | 25 | 10 | 31 | 16.0% 6%–35% | 11.9% | cliché ×2.27 | 313 d |   | |
| Dystopian | 17 | 6 | 67 | under 20 | 11.7% | cliché ×2.53 | 459 d |    | |
| Noir | 35 | 12 | 19 | 14.3% 6%–29% | 11.5% | cliché ×2.53 | 518 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.
