Programming games on Steam
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Programming on Steam: 879 released games, 324 in the last 12 months, 371 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 7. 53% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Programming 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 included319 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsProgramming × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Programming at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Programming × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Job Simulator | 9 | 3 | 44 | under 20 | 14.9% | cliché ×2.63 | 196 d |    | |
| Crime | 9 | 3 | 22 | under 20 | 11.5% | cliché ×2.47 | 880 d |  | |
| Psychological Horror | 11 | 5 | 5 | under 20 | 10.8% | ordinary ×0.40 | 1000 d |   | |
| Detective | 12 | 3 | 4 | under 20 | 10.4% | cliché ×1.61 | 923 d | | |
| Horror | 13 | 4 | 10 | under 20 | 10.1% | avoided ×0.28 | 880 d | | |
| Underground | 5 | 1 | 22 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.90 | 1047 d | | |
| Mystery | 16 | 4 | 7 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.61 | 1000 d | | |
| Cyberpunk | 27 | 13 | 5 | 11.1% 4%–28% | 9.2% | cliché ×3.46 | 215 d |  | |
| Farming Sim | 7 | 4 | 7 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.04 | 368 d |  | |
| Mining | 7 | 4 | 49 | under 20 | 8.6% | cliché ×1.96 | 375 d |  | |
| Artificial Intelligence | 33 | 15 | 5 | 9.1% 3%–24% | 8.2% | cliché ×6.21 | 215 d | | |
| Fantasy | 21 | 6 | 24 | 9.5% 3%–29% | 8.1% | avoided ×0.29 | 508 d |  | |
| Capitalism | 9 | 5 | 39 | under 20 | 8.0% | cliché ×2.53 | 880 d | | |
| Sci-fi | 59 | 23 | 11 | 8.5% 4%–18% | 8.0% | cliché ×1.78 | 215 d |  | |
| 1980s | 12 | 7 | 11 | under 20 | 7.3% | cliché ×1.71 | 456 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.
