Physics games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Physics on Steam: 10,283 released games, 2,693 in the last 12 months, 6,352 announced and still unreleased. Of the 4,830 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 8 lifetime reviews. 53% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Physics 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 included4,830 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsPhysics × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Physics at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Physics × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nostalgia | 12 | 6 | 61 | under 20 | 16.6% | ordinary ×1.04 | 342 d |    | |
| Cozy | 124 | 56 | 21 | 15.3% 10%–23% | 14.1% | ordinary ×1.21 | 93 d |    | |
| Gore | 110 | 38 | 13 | 14.5% 9%–22% | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.66 | 90 d |    | |
| Violent | 94 | 36 | 14 | 13.8% 8%–22% | 12.6% | ordinary ×0.56 | 90 d |   | |
| Realistic | 780 | 255 | 16 | 12.7% 11%–15% | 12.5% | cliché ×1.71 | 104 d |    | |
| First-Person | 1185 | 435 | 13 | 12.0% 10%–14% | 11.9% | cliché ×1.55 | 96 d |    | |
| Dark Humor | 180 | 73 | 16 | 12.2% 8%–18% | 11.7% | ordinary ×1.29 | 104 d |   | |
| Wholesome | 46 | 13 | 24 | 13.0% 6%–26% | 11.1% | ordinary ×1.06 | 128 d |    | |
| Lore-Rich | 48 | 11 | 15 | 12.5% 6%–25% | 10.8% | avoided ×0.30 | 356 d |    | |
| Horror | 356 | 137 | 14 | 10.7% 8%–14% | 10.5% | ordinary ×0.58 | 90 d |  | |
| VR | 320 | 90 | 12 | 10.6% 8%–14% | 10.4% | cliché ×1.70 | 100 d |  | |
| Dark Comedy | 65 | 20 | 14 | 10.8% 5%–21% | 9.8% | ordinary ×0.99 | 399 d |    | |
| Memes | 107 | 34 | 17 | 10.3% 6%–17% | 9.7% | cliché ×1.52 | 100 d |    | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 56 | 19 | 27 | 10.7% 5%–21% | 9.6% | avoided ×0.32 | 408 d |    | |
| Parody | 82 | 20 | 13 | 9.8% 5%–18% | 9.1% | cliché ×1.54 | 190 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.
