Racing games on Steam
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Racing on Steam: 5,399 released games, 1,259 in the last 12 months, 1,640 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 7. 55% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Racing 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 included1,980 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsRacing × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Racing at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Racing × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dystopian | 9 | 4 | 72 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×0.62 | 90 d |    | |
| Snow | 24 | 5 | 15 | 20.8% 9%–40% | 14.4% | cliché ×2.68 | 299 d |    | |
| Golf | 11 | 3 | 10 | under 20 | 14.0% | cliché ×2.01 | 236 d |    | |
| Horror | 36 | 10 | 10 | 16.7% 8%–32% | 13.1% | avoided ×0.17 | 448 d |   | |
| 1990's | 129 | 39 | 7 | 14.0% 9%–21% | 13.0% | cliché ×1.55 | 159 d |   | |
| 1980s | 92 | 30 | 12 | 14.1% 8%–23% | 12.8% | cliché ×1.81 | 159 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 14 | 2 | 30 | under 20 | 12.7% | avoided ×0.20 | 148 d |   | |
| Noir | 15 | 6 | 13 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.52 | 389 d |   | |
| Skateboarding | 16 | 2 | 7 | under 20 | 12.0% | cliché ×8.26 | 438 d |    | |
| Motorbike | 67 | 19 | 6 | 13.4% 7%–24% | 11.9% | cliché ×22.83 | 133 d |   | |
| Psychological Horror | 35 | 8 | 19 | 14.3% 6%–29% | 11.5% | avoided ×0.22 | 119 d |   | |
| Crime | 18 | 9 | 7 | under 20 | 11.4% | ordinary ×0.75 | 588 d |   | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 36 | 18 | 9 | 13.9% 6%–29% | 11.3% | ordinary ×0.73 | 238 d |   | |
| Supernatural | 10 | 4 | 10 | under 20 | 11.1% | avoided ×0.15 | 447 d |   | |
| Skating | 28 | 8 | 14 | 14.3% 6%–31% | 11.1% | cliché ×9.44 | 90 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.
