Psychedelic games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Psychedelic on Steam: 2,962 released games, 819 in the last 12 months, 1,257 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 13. 44% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Psychedelic 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 included1,306 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsPsychedelic × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Psychedelic at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Psychedelic × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fishing | 5 | 2 | 58 | under 20 | 13.4% | ordinary ×0.50 | 114 d |   | |
| Dating Sim | 28 | 7 | 83 | 17.9% 8%–36% | 13.2% | ordinary ×0.51 | 195 d |    | |
| Female Protagonist | 114 | 37 | 17 | 14.0% 9%–22% | 12.9% | ordinary ×0.86 | 140 d |    | |
| Crime | 29 | 9 | 22 | 17.2% 8%–35% | 12.9% | ordinary ×1.38 | 118 d |    | |
| Cats | 28 | 5 | 10 | 14.3% 6%–31% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.86 | 215 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 31 | 8 | 77 | 12.9% 5%–29% | 10.5% | ordinary ×1.14 | 195 d |  | |
| Dystopian | 67 | 16 | 16 | 10.4% 5%–20% | 9.6% | cliché ×2.52 | 121 d |    | |
| Music | 58 | 16 | 10 | 10.3% 5%–21% | 9.4% | cliché ×4.77 | 337 d |   | |
| Dragons | 5 | 2 | 23 | under 20 | 9.4% | ordinary ×0.53 | 907 d | | |
| Robots | 27 | 7 | 7 | 11.1% 4%–28% | 9.2% | ordinary ×0.77 | 468 d |    | |
| Transhumanism | 17 | 2 | 14 | under 20 | 9.0% | cliché ×3.59 | 468 d |  | |
| Sports | 18 | 6 | 8 | under 20 | 8.8% | ordinary ×0.44 | 310 d |   | |
| Assassins | 7 | 1 | 5 | under 20 | 8.7% | ordinary ×1.29 | 918 d |  | |
| Vampires | 9 | 2 | 3 | under 20 | 8.1% | ordinary ×0.52 | 1057 d |  | |
| Mystery | 227 | 62 | 19 | 7.9% 5%–12% | 7.8% | cliché ×2.01 | 140 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.
