Pinball games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Pinball on Steam: 312 released games, 130 in the last 12 months, 117 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 49% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 6%. Pinball 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 included102 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsPinball × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Pinball at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Pinball × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Horror | 5 | 1 | 11 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.41 | 700 d |   | |
| Pixel Graphics | 28 | 17 | 22 | 17.9% 8%–36% | 13.2% | cliché ×1.50 | 133 d |    | |
| 2D | 45 | 23 | 12 | 11.1% 5%–23% | 9.7% | cliché ×1.55 | 133 d | | |
| Dark | 6 | 1 | 5 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.53 | 1048 d | | |
| Atmospheric | 18 | 8 | 12 | under 20 | 8.8% | ordinary ×0.61 | 133 d | | |
| Linear | 7 | 6 | 12 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×0.62 | 133 d | | |
| Family Friendly | 10 | 6 | 5 | under 20 | 7.8% | cliché ×1.76 | 362 d |  | |
| Cute | 25 | 14 | 9 | 8.0% 2%–25% | 7.4% | ordinary ×1.32 | 672 d |  | |
| Difficult | 12 | 7 | 27 | under 20 | 7.3% | cliché ×1.81 | 700 d | | |
| Relaxing | 29 | 19 | 12 | 6.9% 2%–22% | 6.8% | cliché ×1.91 | 133 d | | |
| 3D | 30 | 14 | 8 | 6.7% 2%–21% | 6.7% | ordinary ×0.94 | 362 d | | |
| Top-Down | 16 | 7 | 15 | under 20 | 6.5% | ordinary ×1.48 | 363 d | | |
| Retro | 38 | 20 | 9 | 5.3% 1%–17% | 5.7% | cliché ×3.28 | 362 d | | |
| Funny | 21 | 14 | 5 | 4.8% 1%–23% | 5.7% | ordinary ×1.36 | 672 d | | |
| Cartoon | 5 | 2 | 12 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×1.19 | never |
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.
