Parody games on Steam
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Parody on Steam: 466 released games, 188 in the last 12 months, 148 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 52. 17% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 13%. 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 included216 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsParody × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medieval | 6 | 3 | 151 | under 20 | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.77 | 180 d |    | |
| Magic | 12 | 3 | 109 | under 20 | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.87 | 722 d |    | |
| Fantasy | 32 | 13 | 21 | 21.9% 11%–39% | 16.0% | ordinary ×0.96 | 180 d | | |
| Psychological Horror | 21 | 5 | 148 | 23.8% 11%–45% | 15.4% | ordinary ×1.07 | 383 d |    | |
| Capitalism | 17 | 7 | 111 | under 20 | 14.4% | cliché ×5.23 | 176 d |   | |
| Sports | 5 | 2 | 79 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.57 | 545 d |   | |
| Dark Fantasy | 7 | 2 | 31 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.65 | 180 d | | |
| Noir | 7 | 2 | 89 | under 20 | 12.3% | cliché ×1.74 | 383 d |  | |
| Dating Sim | 28 | 9 | 24 | 14.3% 6%–31% | 11.1% | cliché ×2.94 | 537 d |   | |
| 1990's | 20 | 5 | 62 | 15.0% 5%–36% | 10.8% | cliché ×2.38 | 545 d |   | |
| Romance | 25 | 8 | 31 | 12.0% 4%–30% | 9.6% | cliché ×2.57 | 537 d |  | |
| Conspiracy | 5 | 2 | 16 | under 20 | 9.3% | cliché ×2.18 | 331 d |  | |
| Mystery | 16 | 7 | 18 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.82 | 564 d | | |
| Horror | 27 | 10 | 42 | 11.1% 4%–28% | 9.2% | ordinary ×1.04 | 564 d | | |
| 1980s | 6 | 1 | 30 | under 20 | 9.0% | cliché ×1.53 | 545 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.
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