RTS games on Steam
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RTS on Steam: 3,487 released games, 988 in the last 12 months, 1,551 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 13. 45% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 13%. RTS 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 included1,321 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsRTS × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with RTS at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| RTS × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World War II | 36 | 10 | 53 | 33.3% 20%–50% | 23.8% | cliché ×6.77 | 173 d |    | |
| Historical | 180 | 46 | 60 | 21.7% 16%–28% | 20.2% | cliché ×5.48 | 124 d |   | |
| Naval | 19 | 9 | 221 | under 20 | 18.8% | cliché ×4.40 | 231 d |   | |
| Trains | 9 | 2 | 368 | under 20 | 18.4% | ordinary ×1.34 | 504 d |    | |
| Naval Combat | 26 | 12 | 62 | 26.9% 14%–46% | 18.1% | cliché ×7.22 | 231 d |  | |
| Alternate History | 53 | 14 | 33 | 20.8% 12%–33% | 16.9% | cliché ×3.06 | 270 d |   | |
| Military | 229 | 73 | 26 | 17.0% 13%–22% | 16.2% | cliché ×8.54 | 173 d |  | |
| Villain Protagonist | 7 | 1 | 84 | under 20 | 16.0% | cliché ×3.69 | 383 d |    | |
| Submarine | 8 | 2 | 310 | under 20 | 15.5% | cliché ×3.48 | 700 d |  | |
| Tanks | 41 | 11 | 20 | 19.5% 10%–34% | 15.3% | cliché ×7.63 | 173 d | | |
| War | 311 | 87 | 25 | 15.4% 12%–20% | 14.9% | cliché ×9.89 | 124 d | | |
| Modern | 41 | 16 | 32 | 17.1% 9%–31% | 13.7% | cliché ×1.60 | 196 d |   | |
| Dystopian | 6 | 2 | 107 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.90 | 965 d |   | |
| Cold War | 15 | 5 | 39 | under 20 | 12.4% | cliché ×4.79 | 691 d |  | |
| Medical Sim | 7 | 1 | 13 | under 20 | 12.3% | cliché ×1.99 | 592 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.
