Philosophical games on Steam
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Philosophical on Steam: 1,992 released games, 650 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 included950 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsPhilosophical × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dystopian | 23 | 6 | 140 | 34.8% 19%–55% | 21.7% | cliché ×4.54 | 120 d |    | |
| Noir | 34 | 8 | 10 | 20.6% 10%–37% | 15.4% | cliché ×3.19 | 383 d |   | |
| Crime | 17 | 6 | 24 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.42 | 167 d |   | |
| Detective | 40 | 11 | 12 | 15.0% 7%–29% | 12.2% | cliché ×1.87 | 167 d |  | |
| LGBTQ+ | 47 | 15 | 27 | 12.8% 6%–25% | 10.9% | cliché ×2.10 | 337 d |    | |
| Transhumanism | 22 | 6 | 12 | 13.6% 5%–33% | 10.3% | cliché ×10.44 | 467 d |   | |
| Cats | 13 | 5 | 4 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.81 | 589 d |   | |
| Gothic | 23 | 5 | 27 | 13.0% 5%–32% | 10.1% | cliché ×2.57 | 139 d |   | |
| Female Protagonist | 103 | 33 | 21 | 10.7% 6%–18% | 10.0% | ordinary ×1.39 | 139 d |  | |
| Alternate History | 24 | 6 | 13 | 12.5% 4%–31% | 9.8% | cliché ×2.42 | 265 d | | |
| Futuristic | 58 | 22 | 19 | 10.3% 5%–21% | 9.4% | ordinary ×1.43 | 325 d |   | |
| Vampires | 5 | 1 | 48 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.68 | 817 d | | |
| Cyberpunk | 27 | 7 | 12 | 11.1% 4%–28% | 9.2% | ordinary ×1.34 | 804 d | | |
| Steampunk | 6 | 1 | 12 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×1.11 | 1096 d | | |
| Artificial Intelligence | 40 | 10 | 8 | 10.0% 4%–23% | 8.9% | cliché ×2.30 | 445 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.
