Old School games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Old School on Steam: 7,354 released games, 1,584 in the last 12 months, 2,833 announced and still unreleased. Of the 3,313 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 8 lifetime reviews. 53% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Old School 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 included3,313 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsOld School × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Old School at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Old School × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Villain Protagonist | 8 | 1 | 606 | under 20 | 22.6% | ordinary ×0.86 | 741 d |    | |
| Dwarves | 5 | 1 | 319 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×1.48 | 384 d |  | |
| Vampires | 30 | 10 | 14 | 16.7% 7%–34% | 12.7% | ordinary ×1.23 | 257 d |   | |
| Job Simulator | 8 | 4 | 28 | under 20 | 11.9% | avoided ×0.33 | 127 d |   | |
| Zombies | 89 | 21 | 28 | 12.4% 7%–21% | 11.3% | ordinary ×1.08 | 90 d |   | |
| Detective | 63 | 22 | 18 | 12.7% 7%–23% | 11.2% | ordinary ×0.77 | 195 d |    | |
| Werewolves | 10 | 2 | 69 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×1.30 | 888 d |  | |
| Mechs | 12 | 5 | 25 | under 20 | 10.4% | ordinary ×0.72 | 366 d |   | |
| Dragons | 44 | 15 | 9 | 11.4% 5%–24% | 9.9% | ordinary ×1.37 | 146 d |    | |
| Dark Fantasy | 230 | 84 | 13 | 10.0% 7%–15% | 9.7% | ordinary ×1.35 | 181 d |   | |
| Lovecraftian | 47 | 13 | 42 | 10.6% 5%–23% | 9.4% | ordinary ×1.27 | 267 d |    | |
| Noir | 38 | 10 | 13 | 10.5% 4%–24% | 9.2% | ordinary ×1.19 | 195 d | | |
| Thriller | 93 | 28 | 32 | 9.7% 5%–17% | 9.1% | ordinary ×0.81 | 222 d |   ![[Bober Bros] The Hole](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/3037930/9cbf747eb97b9e3d77f96a3548813ba2d14fe325/capsule_231x87.jpg){kind=small} | |
| Martial Arts | 39 | 11 | 12 | 10.3% 4%–24% | 9.0% | ordinary ×1.41 | 364 d |    | |
| Demons | 128 | 43 | 15 | 9.4% 5%–16% | 9.0% | ordinary ×1.48 | 181 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.
