Parody games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Parody on Steam: 1,478 released games, 453 in the last 12 months, 571 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 15. 43% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. Parody 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 included672 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsParody × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Parody at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Parody × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Character Customization | 19 | 8 | 311 | under 20 | 23.9% | ordinary ×1.18 | 502 d |    | |
| Combat | 16 | 7 | 53 | under 20 | 20.4% | ordinary ×0.71 | 144 d |    | |
| Adventure | 83 | 28 | 48 | 20.5% 13%–30% | 17.8% | ordinary ×1.12 | 126 d |  | |
| Logic | 10 | 2 | 119 | under 20 | 17.8% | ordinary ×0.66 | 502 d |  | |
| Souls-like | 10 | 2 | 256 | under 20 | 17.8% | cliché ×1.73 | 331 d |   | |
| Physics | 28 | 8 | 44 | 25.0% 13%–43% | 17.4% | cliché ×1.82 | 175 d |  | |
| RPG | 31 | 7 | 64 | 22.6% 11%–40% | 16.3% | ordinary ×0.83 | 331 d |   | |
| Multiple Endings | 32 | 6 | 93 | 21.9% 11%–39% | 16.0% | cliché ×1.69 | 331 d | | |
| 3D Platformer | 14 | 5 | 79 | under 20 | 15.7% | ordinary ×0.89 | 144 d | | |
| Board Game | 8 | 2 | 53 | under 20 | 15.5% | ordinary ×1.35 | 502 d |  | |
| Choices Matter | 34 | 13 | 93 | 20.6% 10%–37% | 15.4% | cliché ×1.59 | 432 d |  | |
| Idler | 15 | 6 | 134 | under 20 | 15.2% | cliché ×1.71 | 176 d |    | |
| Procedural Generation | 9 | 4 | 81 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×0.82 | 180 d |    | |
| Roguelite | 9 | 5 | 297 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×0.76 | 180 d | | |
| Visual Novel | 44 | 14 | 21 | 18.2% 10%–32% | 14.6% | cliché ×2.25 | 331 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.
