Post-apocalyptic games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Post-apocalyptic on Steam: 4,881 released games, 1,651 in the last 12 months, 3,067 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 12. 47% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Post-apocalyptic 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 included2,028 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsPost-apocalyptic × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Post-apocalyptic at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Post-apocalyptic × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open World Survival Craft | 58 | 17 | 271 | 39.7% 28%–53% | 31.2% | cliché ×5.45 | 193 d |    | |
| Extraction Shooter | 22 | 10 | 454 | 50.0% 31%–69% | 29.4% | cliché ×8.87 | 110 d |    | |
| Base Building | 218 | 68 | 53 | 25.7% 20%–32% | 24.1% | cliché ×3.38 | 91 d |  | |
| Sandbox | 160 | 55 | 37 | 26.3% 20%–34% | 24.1% | cliché ×1.64 | 110 d | | |
| Colony Sim | 45 | 14 | 127 | 31.1% 20%–46% | 23.6% | cliché ×2.77 | 153 d |   | |
| City Builder | 41 | 14 | 190 | 31.7% 20%–47% | 23.5% | ordinary ×1.47 | 153 d | | |
| Crafting | 210 | 75 | 31 | 23.3% 18%–30% | 21.9% | cliché ×2.72 | 91 d | | |
| Naval | 5 | 1 | 800 | under 20 | 21.3% | ordinary ×0.75 | 174 d |    | |
| Immersive Sim | 86 | 34 | 44 | 24.4% 17%–34% | 21.1% | ordinary ×0.87 | 137 d |   | |
| Open World | 297 | 104 | 25 | 20.9% 17%–26% | 20.0% | cliché ×2.70 | 98 d | | |
| Economy | 39 | 17 | 36 | 25.6% 15%–41% | 19.2% | ordinary ×0.68 | 189 d |    | |
| MMORPG | 13 | 2 | 426 | under 20 | 19.2% | ordinary ×1.35 | 301 d |  | |
| Gambling | 8 | 4 | 10 | under 20 | 19.0% | ordinary ×0.38 | 253 d |    | |
| Building | 159 | 54 | 37 | 20.1% 15%–27% | 18.6% | cliché ×1.76 | 110 d | | |
| Hunting | 20 | 7 | 119 | 30.0% 15%–52% | 18.3% | cliché ×2.22 | 251 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.
