Party-Based RPG games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Party-Based RPG on Steam: 2,777 released games, 996 in the last 12 months, 1,506 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 13. 45% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Party-Based RPG 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 included1,118 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsParty-Based RPG × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Party-Based RPG at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Party-Based RPG × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinematic | 18 | 4 | 35 | under 20 | 24.6% | ordinary ×0.54 | 188 d |    | |
| Isometric | 61 | 22 | 138 | 29.5% 20%–42% | 23.9% | cliché ×2.71 | 91 d |    | |
| Emotional | 72 | 20 | 16 | 27.8% 19%–39% | 23.2% | ordinary ×1.46 | 215 d |  | |
| Violent | 23 | 10 | 23 | 30.4% 16%–51% | 19.4% | ordinary ×0.57 | 215 d |   | |
| Atmospheric | 110 | 29 | 13 | 20.0% 14%–28% | 17.9% | ordinary ×0.64 | 188 d |  | |
| Story Rich | 349 | 102 | 20 | 18.3% 15%–23% | 17.7% | cliché ×2.18 | 138 d |   | |
| Anime | 247 | 70 | 20 | 17.8% 14%–23% | 17.0% | cliché ×2.23 | 103 d |  | |
| Cute | 202 | 54 | 24 | 17.8% 13%–24% | 16.8% | ordinary ×1.07 | 103 d |   | |
| Third Person | 95 | 23 | 15 | 18.9% 12%–28% | 16.8% | ordinary ×1.02 | 152 d | | |
| Lore-Rich | 113 | 29 | 14 | 16.8% 11%–25% | 15.3% | cliché ×3.80 | 215 d |  | |
| Gore | 15 | 7 | 23 | under 20 | 15.2% | ordinary ×0.48 | 222 d |    | |
| Nostalgia | 9 | 5 | 15 | under 20 | 14.9% | cliché ×2.88 | 250 d |    | |
| 3D | 237 | 73 | 19 | 15.2% 11%–20% | 14.5% | ordinary ×0.83 | 124 d |  | |
| Realistic | 32 | 11 | 9 | 18.8% 9%–35% | 14.1% | avoided ×0.35 | 91 d |  | |
| 2.5D | 61 | 21 | 38 | 16.4% 9%–28% | 14.0% | cliché ×2.10 | 138 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.
