The niche at a glance

Poker on Steam: 178 released games, 145 in the last 12 months, 139 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 4. 52% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 17%. Poker 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 included33 releases
p100
p250
median4
p7529
p901,812
52% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $5.99 · 17% free-to-play

Releases per year

outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews
2019
3med 15 · 33% unseen
2020
3med 167 · 0% unseen
2022
3med 4 · 67% unseen
2023
2med 4,531 · 0% unseen
2024
1med 28 · 0% unseen
2025
9med 17 · 33% unseen
2026
96med 3 · 64% unseen · 74 too fresh

Poker × presentation: what the pairings end up with

every presentation tag shipped with Poker at least 5 times · same window
share reaching 500 reviews, shrunk towards the catalogue · click a row to open the concept
Poker ×3 y12 mmedian≥500adjusted vs chancelast hitwho made it
Funny6511under 2012.8%
ordinary ×0.99222 d
Poker Night at the Inventory
This Ain’t Even Poker, Ya Joker
Poker Night at the Inventory · This Ain’t Even Poker, Ya Joker
2D2217313.6% 5%–33%10.3%
cliché ×1.69154 d
Texas Hold'em Poker: Pokerist
This Ain’t Even Poker, Ya Joker
Black Jacket
Texas Hold'em Poker: Pokerist · This Ain’t Even Poker, Ya Joker · Black Jacket
Colorful5317under 209.3%
ordinary ×0.81306 d
This Ain’t Even Poker, Ya Joker
This Ain’t Even Poker, Ya Joker
Difficult5512under 209.3%
ordinary ×1.37154 d
Black Jacket
Black Jacket
Pixel Graphics6517under 209.0%
ordinary ×1.31306 d
This Ain’t Even Poker, Ya Joker
This Ain’t Even Poker, Ya Joker
Relaxing1073under 204.4%
ordinary ×1.50never
1 pairings cleared 20 releases; 64 more never reached 5 and are not listed. Compared against 6.7% for games that carry any tags at all.

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.