The niche at a glance
RTS on Steam: 3,487 released games, 988 in the last 12 months, 1,552 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Realistic | 119 | 38 | 39 | 21.8% 15%–30% | 19.7% | ordinary ×1.11 | 173 d |    | |
| Difficult | 37 | 11 | 36 | 24.3% 13%–40% | 18.1% | ordinary ×0.73 | 155 d |   | |
| Story Rich | 80 | 27 | 29 | 20.0% 13%–30% | 17.3% | ordinary ×0.43 | 155 d |    | |
| FMV | 12 | 1 | 54 | under 20 | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.81 | 455 d |    | |
| Lore-Rich | 25 | 7 | 130 | 24.0% 11%–43% | 16.3% | ordinary ×0.71 | 769 d |   | |
| Isometric | 107 | 32 | 42 | 16.8% 11%–25% | 15.2% | cliché ×3.12 | 124 d |   | |
| Violent | 18 | 4 | 45 | under 20 | 14.0% | ordinary ×0.72 | 383 d |    | |
| Atmospheric | 134 | 46 | 24 | 14.2% 9%–21% | 13.2% | ordinary ×0.60 | 187 d |   | |
| Cinematic | 23 | 10 | 9 | 17.4% 7%–37% | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.58 | 425 d | | |
| 3D | 491 | 134 | 16 | 12.2% 10%–15% | 12.0% | ordinary ×1.31 | 124 d |  | |
| Emotional | 8 | 3 | 11 | under 20 | 11.9% | avoided ×0.11 | 551 d |  | |
| Gore | 18 | 3 | 23 | under 20 | 11.4% | ordinary ×0.59 | 383 d | | |
| Voxel | 21 | 8 | 33 | 14.3% 5%–35% | 10.6% | cliché ×2.10 | 210 d |    | |
| Anime | 61 | 21 | 25 | 9.8% 5%–20% | 9.1% | ordinary ×0.39 | 151 d |   | |
| Dark Humor | 17 | 3 | 9 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.57 | 151 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.
