Real-Time with Pause games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Real-Time with Pause on Steam: 432 released games, 101 in the last 12 months, 140 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 68. 24% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 2%. Real-Time with Pause 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 included78 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsReal-Time with Pause × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Real-Time with Pause at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Real-Time with Pause × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric | 13 | 8 | 217 | under 20 | 22.2% | ordinary ×1.10 | 135 d |    | |
| Difficult | 12 | 4 | 136 | under 20 | 19.8% | cliché ×2.68 | 155 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 9 | 5 | 119 | under 20 | 18.4% | ordinary ×0.79 | 155 d |    | |
| 3D | 21 | 6 | 74 | 28.6% 14%–50% | 17.9% | ordinary ×0.67 | 222 d |  | |
| Colorful | 10 | 3 | 109 | under 20 | 17.8% | ordinary ×0.40 | 313 d |   | |
| Isometric | 9 | 1 | 373 | under 20 | 14.9% | cliché ×4.56 | 222 d |  | |
| Cute | 5 | 3 | 17 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.41 | 313 d | | |
| Realistic | 5 | 1 | 327 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.93 | 551 d | | |
| Third Person | 5 | 3 | 119 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.60 | 217 d | | |
| Relaxing | 9 | 5 | 74 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.46 | 179 d |  | |
| Pixel Graphics | 11 | 2 | 41 | under 20 | 10.8% | ordinary ×0.84 | 498 d |  | |
| Top-Down | 23 | 7 | 33 | 13.0% 5%–32% | 10.1% | cliché ×2.12 | 446 d |  | |
| 2D | 26 | 8 | 29 | 11.5% 4%–29% | 9.4% | ordinary ×0.93 | 135 d |   | |
| Stylized | 7 | 3 | 15 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×0.60 | 446 d | | |
| Minimalist | 8 | 3 | 8 | under 20 | 4.8% | ordinary ×1.07 | never |
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.
