Open World games on Steam
Open World on Steam: 10,082 released games, 2,781 in the last 12 months, 5,465 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 14. 46% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Open World 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 included3,902 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago — anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsOpen World × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Open World at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Open World × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wuxia | 20 | 13 | 1,115 | 65.0% 43%–82% | 35.6% | cliché ×3.42 | 90 d |    | |
| Trains | 32 | 12 | 98 | 50.0% 34%–66% | 33.2% | cliché ×1.95 | 144 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 60 | 27 | 108 | 38.3% 27%–51% | 30.3% | cliché ×1.62 | 90 d |  | |
| Historical | 172 | 50 | 42 | 30.8% 24%–38% | 28.3% | cliché ×1.51 | 139 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 67 | 21 | 102 | 34.3% 24%–46% | 27.9% | ordinary ×0.57 | 95 d |   | |
| Transportation | 90 | 35 | 26 | 28.9% 21%–39% | 24.8% | cliché ×3.56 | 144 d |    | |
| Naval Combat | 38 | 12 | 108 | 34.2% 21%–50% | 24.6% | cliché ×3.86 | 153 d |    | |
| Pirates | 59 | 15 | 89 | 28.8% 19%–41% | 23.1% | cliché ×2.99 | 153 d |   | |
| Farming | 30 | 8 | 50 | 33.3% 19%–51% | 22.5% | cliché ×3.01 | 98 d |    | |
| War | 115 | 39 | 16 | 25.2% 18%–34% | 22.4% | ordinary ×1.26 | 139 d |   | |
| Naval | 50 | 18 | 54 | 28.0% 17%–42% | 21.8% | cliché ×3.48 | 185 d |  | |
| Sailing | 64 | 22 | 57 | 25.0% 16%–37% | 20.5% | cliché ×5.01 | 153 d |   | |
| Mining | 94 | 38 | 23 | 23.4% 16%–33% | 20.4% | cliché ×2.74 | 110 d |   | |
| Science | 50 | 23 | 17 | 26.0% 16%–40% | 20.3% | ordinary ×1.45 | 208 d |   | |
| Military | 104 | 42 | 5 | 22.1% 15%–31% | 19.6% | ordinary ×1.22 | 139 d | |
“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.
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