Puzzle games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Puzzle on Steam: 27,708 released games, 5,570 in the last 12 months, 9,971 announced and still unreleased. Of the 11,698 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 8 lifetime reviews. 52% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Puzzle 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 included11,698 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsPuzzle × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Puzzle at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Puzzle × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 16 | 9 | 34 | under 20 | 17.6% | cliché ×1.79 | 121 d |    | |
| Decorating | 17 | 10 | 158 | under 20 | 17.1% | ordinary ×0.71 | 163 d |    | |
| Language Learning | 12 | 10 | 10 | under 20 | 16.6% | cliché ×2.16 | 121 d |    | |
| Baseball | 5 | 3 | 69 | under 20 | 13.3% | avoided ×0.30 | 188 d |   | |
| Villain Protagonist | 14 | 3 | 78 | under 20 | 12.7% | ordinary ×0.77 | 439 d |   | |
| World War II | 22 | 4 | 35 | 18.2% 7%–39% | 12.7% | ordinary ×0.36 | 215 d |    | |
| Farming | 9 | 2 | 27 | under 20 | 11.5% | avoided ×0.35 | 383 d |   | |
| Animals | 88 | 41 | 12 | 12.5% 7%–21% | 11.4% | ordinary ×1.09 | 173 d |    | |
| Farming Sim | 36 | 8 | 35 | 13.9% 6%–29% | 11.3% | avoided ×0.24 | 92 d |   | |
| Shop Keeper | 37 | 32 | 23 | 13.5% 6%–28% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.40 | 160 d |  | |
| Submarine | 11 | 3 | 17 | under 20 | 10.7% | ordinary ×0.53 | 104 d |   | |
| Birds | 16 | 5 | 21 | under 20 | 9.2% | ordinary ×1.01 | 524 d |   | |
| Lovecraftian | 157 | 39 | 32 | 9.6% 6%–15% | 9.2% | ordinary ×1.31 | 351 d |    | |
| Job Simulator | 61 | 28 | 45 | 9.8% 5%–20% | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.83 | 121 d |   | |
| Tanks | 6 | 2 | 4 | under 20 | 8.9% | avoided ×0.16 | 236 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.
