Platformer games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Platformer on Steam: 13,461 released games, 2,197 in the last 12 months, 5,453 announced and still unreleased. Of the 5,358 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 7 lifetime reviews. 54% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Platformer 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 included5,358 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsPlatformer × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Platformer at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Platformer × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job Simulator | 5 | 1 | 51 | under 20 | 13.3% | avoided ×0.06 | 450 d |   | |
| Shop Keeper | 5 | 4 | 102 | under 20 | 13.3% | avoided ×0.07 | 181 d |  | |
| Martial Arts | 28 | 4 | 23 | 17.9% 8%–36% | 13.2% | ordinary ×0.76 | 426 d |    | |
| Skating | 17 | 5 | 21 | under 20 | 11.7% | cliché ×2.65 | 105 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 63 | 23 | 24 | 12.7% 7%–23% | 11.2% | ordinary ×0.44 | 229 d |    | |
| Demons | 110 | 33 | 10 | 11.8% 7%–19% | 11.0% | ordinary ×0.77 | 160 d |   | |
| Dating Sim | 21 | 10 | 23 | 14.3% 5%–35% | 10.6% | avoided ×0.09 | 132 d |   | |
| Tanks | 12 | 3 | 2 | under 20 | 10.4% | avoided ×0.33 | 528 d |   | |
| Mythology | 98 | 22 | 12 | 10.2% 6%–18% | 9.6% | ordinary ×1.11 | 181 d |   | |
| Trains | 5 | 2 | 3 | under 20 | 9.3% | avoided ×0.26 | 105 d | | |
| Dark Fantasy | 285 | 85 | 13 | 9.5% 7%–13% | 9.3% | ordinary ×1.01 | 153 d |   | |
| Mechs | 28 | 8 | 9 | 10.7% 4%–27% | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.92 | 528 d |  | |
| War | 28 | 6 | 7 | 10.7% 4%–27% | 9.0% | avoided ×0.23 | 434 d |   | |
| Fishing | 17 | 5 | 22 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.36 | 128 d |   | |
| Female Protagonist | 580 | 172 | 15 | 9.0% 7%–12% | 8.9% | ordinary ×1.17 | 126 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.
