Perma Death games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Perma Death on Steam: 3,456 released games, 1,239 in the last 12 months, 1,788 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 9. 51% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 7%. Perma Death 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 included1,419 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsPerma Death × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Perma Death at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Perma Death × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isometric | 78 | 26 | 24 | 16.7% 10%–26% | 14.6% | cliché ×1.90 | 189 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 99 | 31 | 6 | 14.1% 9%–22% | 12.9% | ordinary ×0.47 | 336 d |   | |
| Dark Comedy | 19 | 6 | 13 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×1.37 | 649 d |    | |
| Funny | 150 | 50 | 14 | 10.7% 7%–17% | 10.2% | ordinary ×0.82 | 259 d |    | |
| Atmospheric | 273 | 93 | 14 | 9.9% 7%–14% | 9.7% | ordinary ×1.06 | 189 d |  | |
| Comedy | 57 | 15 | 16 | 10.5% 5%–21% | 9.5% | ordinary ×0.66 | 259 d |  | |
| Gothic | 26 | 9 | 25 | 11.5% 4%–29% | 9.4% | cliché ×2.07 | 308 d |    | |
| Hand-drawn | 90 | 21 | 22 | 10.0% 5%–18% | 9.4% | ordinary ×0.98 | 383 d |  | |
| Fast-Paced | 38 | 15 | 10 | 10.5% 4%–24% | 9.2% | cliché ×2.01 | 437 d |    | |
| Anime | 49 | 19 | 15 | 10.2% 4%–22% | 9.2% | avoided ×0.35 | 223 d |  | |
| Cute | 138 | 41 | 16 | 9.4% 6%–15% | 9.1% | ordinary ×0.56 | 158 d |    | |
| First-Person | 262 | 97 | 11 | 9.2% 6%–13% | 9.0% | ordinary ×1.09 | 189 d | | |
| Dark Humor | 52 | 17 | 16 | 9.6% 4%–21% | 8.8% | ordinary ×1.46 | 314 d |   | |
| Experimental | 8 | 2 | 6 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.99 | 963 d |  | |
| Violent | 45 | 17 | 11 | 8.9% 4%–21% | 8.2% | ordinary ×1.01 | 189 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.
