Puzzle games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Puzzle on Steam: 27,710 released games, 5,572 in the last 12 months, 9,971 announced and still unreleased. Of the 11,697 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 included11,697 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsPuzzle × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FMV | 71 | 16 | 60 | 16.9% 10%–27% | 14.6% | ordinary ×1.11 | 309 d |    | |
| Memes | 118 | 36 | 21 | 14.4% 9%–22% | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.72 | 173 d |    | |
| Silent Protagonist | 10 | 4 | 13 | under 20 | 11.1% | cliché ×2.11 | 404 d |   | |
| Wholesome | 527 | 160 | 39 | 11.2% 9%–14% | 11.0% | cliché ×2.22 | 160 d |    | |
| Narrative | 170 | 63 | 42 | 11.2% 7%–17% | 10.7% | cliché ×1.64 | 100 d |   | |
| Cozy | 752 | 280 | 34 | 10.6% 9%–13% | 10.5% | cliché ×1.75 | 92 d |  | |
| Cinematic | 505 | 143 | 14 | 9.3% 7%–12% | 9.2% | ordinary ×1.28 | 141 d |    | |
| Lore-Rich | 403 | 146 | 16 | 9.2% 7%–12% | 9.1% | ordinary ×1.08 | 100 d |    | |
| Dark Humor | 300 | 105 | 16 | 8.7% 6%–12% | 8.5% | ordinary ×0.99 | 100 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 2568 | 844 | 19 | 8.5% 7%–10% | 8.4% | ordinary ×1.32 | 92 d |    | |
| Satire | 115 | 29 | 14 | 8.7% 5%–15% | 8.4% | ordinary ×0.92 | 146 d |    | |
| 360 Video | 9 | 2 | 4 | under 20 | 8.0% | ordinary ×0.48 | 828 d |  | |
| Jump Scare | 37 | 8 | 16 | 8.1% 3%–21% | 7.6% | ordinary ×1.46 | 369 d |    | |
| Electronic Music | 11 | 3 | 12 | under 20 | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.74 | 351 d |  | |
| Instrumental Music | 11 | 1 | 6 | under 20 | 7.5% | ordinary ×1.37 | 351 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.
