Racing games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Racing on Steam: 5,399 released games, 1,259 in the last 12 months, 1,639 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent | 22 | 8 | 27 | 27.3% 13%–48% | 17.5% | ordinary ×0.36 | 188 d |    | |
| Realistic | 299 | 106 | 19 | 14.7% 11%–19% | 14.2% | cliché ×1.81 | 119 d |    | |
| Nostalgia | 11 | 3 | 19 | under 20 | 14.0% | cliché ×2.26 | 314 d |    | |
| Horror | 36 | 10 | 10 | 16.7% 8%–32% | 13.1% | avoided ×0.17 | 448 d |    | |
| Noir | 15 | 6 | 13 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.52 | 389 d |   | |
| First-Person | 352 | 115 | 15 | 11.9% 9%–16% | 11.6% | ordinary ×1.08 | 119 d |  | |
| VR | 88 | 27 | 13 | 12.5% 7%–21% | 11.4% | cliché ×1.74 | 119 d |  | |
| Memes | 21 | 4 | 7 | 14.3% 5%–35% | 10.6% | ordinary ×1.09 | 214 d |   | |
| Story Rich | 71 | 20 | 13 | 11.3% 6%–21% | 10.3% | avoided ×0.22 | 90 d |    | |
| Gore | 14 | 5 | 22 | under 20 | 9.8% | ordinary ×0.35 | 249 d |   | |
| Gothic | 5 | 2 | 5 | under 20 | 9.3% | avoided ×0.17 | 860 d | | |
| Cinematic | 48 | 20 | 14 | 10.4% 5%–22% | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.88 | 188 d | | |
| Dark Humor | 28 | 7 | 9 | 10.7% 4%–27% | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.52 | 214 d |  | |
| Cozy | 7 | 5 | 30 | under 20 | 8.6% | avoided ×0.24 | 167 d |  | |
| Third Person | 567 | 177 | 8 | 8.6% 7%–11% | 8.6% | cliché ×2.79 | 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.
