Racing games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Racing on Steam: 5,363 released games, 1,219 in the last 12 months, 1,645 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snow | 24 | 5 | 15 | 20.8% 9%–40% | 14.4% | cliché ×2.53 | 300 d |    | |
| Golf | 11 | 3 | 10 | under 20 | 14.0% | cliché ×1.87 | 237 d |    | |
| Horror | 36 | 10 | 10 | 16.7% 8%–32% | 13.1% | avoided ×0.16 | 449 d |    | |
| 1990's | 129 | 39 | 7 | 14.0% 9%–21% | 13.0% | ordinary ×1.44 | 160 d |   | |
| 1980s | 92 | 30 | 12 | 14.1% 8%–23% | 12.8% | cliché ×1.68 | 160 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 14 | 2 | 30 | under 20 | 12.8% | avoided ×0.19 | 149 d |    | |
| Noir | 15 | 6 | 13 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.48 | 390 d |   | |
| Motorbike | 67 | 19 | 6 | 13.4% 7%–24% | 11.9% | cliché ×21.28 | 134 d |   | |
| Skateboarding | 17 | 2 | 7 | under 20 | 11.7% | cliché ×7.78 | 439 d |    | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 35 | 18 | 9 | 14.3% 6%–29% | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.67 | 239 d |   | |
| Psychological Horror | 35 | 8 | 19 | 14.3% 6%–29% | 11.5% | avoided ×0.21 | 120 d |   | |
| Supernatural | 10 | 4 | 10 | under 20 | 11.1% | avoided ×0.14 | 448 d |   | |
| Crime | 19 | 10 | 7 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.71 | 589 d |   | |
| Skating | 28 | 8 | 14 | 14.3% 6%–31% | 11.1% | cliché ×8.79 | 91 d |  | |
| Capitalism | 20 | 8 | 18 | 15.0% 5%–36% | 10.9% | avoided ×0.33 | 401 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.
