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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dystopian | 6 | 3 | 67 | under 20 | 16.7% | ordinary ×1.08 | 92 d |    | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 74 | 23 | 16 | 17.6% 11%–28% | 15.2% | cliché ×2.19 | 189 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 15 | 4 | 128 | under 20 | 15.2% | avoided ×0.31 | 131 d |   | |
| Villain Protagonist | 5 | 1 | 20 | under 20 | 13.3% | cliché ×2.14 | 1083 d |   | |
| Rome | 8 | 5 | 36 | under 20 | 11.9% | cliché ×3.26 | 182 d |   | |
| Agriculture | 9 | 3 | 7 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.65 | 711 d |   | |
| Heist | 9 | 4 | 43 | under 20 | 11.5% | cliché ×1.81 | 259 d |   | |
| Time Travel | 10 | 6 | 2 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.82 | 92 d |  | |
| Dating Sim | 11 | 3 | 58 | under 20 | 10.8% | avoided ×0.13 | 901 d |   | |
| Alternate History | 21 | 4 | 11 | 14.3% 5%–35% | 10.6% | ordinary ×1.09 | 448 d |  | |
| Underground | 40 | 13 | 14 | 12.5% 5%–26% | 10.6% | cliché ×3.21 | 189 d |    | |
| Hunting | 13 | 7 | 31 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×1.44 | 552 d |  | |
| Dark Fantasy | 156 | 57 | 12 | 10.3% 6%–16% | 9.8% | cliché ×2.60 | 189 d |   | |
| Nature | 45 | 18 | 12 | 11.1% 5%–23% | 9.7% | ordinary ×0.77 | 158 d |   | |
| Gothic | 26 | 9 | 25 | 11.5% 4%–29% | 9.4% | cliché ×2.07 | 308 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.
