Retro games on Steam
Retro on Steam: 16,230 released games, 4,758 in the last 12 months, 5,601 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 2. 53% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Retro 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 included6,458 releasesp100
p250
median2
p7534
p90168
53% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $4.99 · 9% free-to-play
Releases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago — anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2019
714med 24 · 29% unseen
2020
966med 17 · 39% unseen
2021
1,206med 14 · 43% unseen
2022
1,395med 14 · 42% unseen
2023
1,535med 13 · 44% unseen
2024
1,893med 13 · 45% unseen
2025
2,350med 7 · 52% unseen
2026
2,779med 0 · 67% unseen · 1,050 too fresh
Best known here
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Latest releases
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