Philosophical games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Philosophical on Steam: 1,996 released games, 651 in the last 12 months, 994 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 48% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. Philosophical 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 included951 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsPhilosophical × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Philosophical at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Philosophical × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investigation | 53 | 18 | 14 | 15.1% 8%–27% | 12.8% | cliché ×2.17 | 167 d |    | |
| Third-Person Shooter | 8 | 3 | 2 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.36 | 396 d |   | |
| Trivia | 9 | 3 | 8 | under 20 | 11.5% | cliché ×2.06 | 589 d |   | |
| FPS | 30 | 7 | 13 | 13.3% 5%–30% | 10.7% | ordinary ×0.56 | 396 d |   | |
| Gambling | 5 | 2 | 158 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.61 | 383 d |  | |
| Logic | 83 | 35 | 14 | 9.6% 5%–18% | 9.1% | cliché ×1.88 | 146 d |   | |
| Metroidvania | 6 | 2 | 12 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.99 | 307 d |  | |
| Score Attack | 18 | 5 | 10 | under 20 | 8.8% | ordinary ×0.49 | 390 d |  | |
| 3D Fighter | 7 | 3 | 22 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×0.42 | 325 d |  | |
| Driving | 7 | 4 | 24 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×0.37 | 120 d |  | |
| Adventure | 471 | 147 | 16 | 8.7% 6%–12% | 8.6% | cliché ×1.55 | 120 d |    | |
| Puzzle Platformer | 44 | 15 | 4 | 9.1% 4%–21% | 8.3% | cliché ×1.65 | 554 d |  | |
| Loot | 8 | 2 | 17 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.41 | 1044 d |  | |
| Tactical RPG | 8 | 3 | 2 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.43 | 173 d |  | |
| 3D Platformer | 57 | 17 | 7 | 8.8% 4%–19% | 8.2% | ordinary ×1.10 | 307 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.
