Retro games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Retro on Steam: 15,043 released games, 3,245 in the last 12 months, 6,226 announced and still unreleased. Of the 6,260 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 9 lifetime reviews. 50% 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 included6,260 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsRetro × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Retro at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Retro × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Offroad | 14 | 5 | 34 | under 20 | 18.6% | ordinary ×0.92 | 329 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 74 | 18 | 33 | 20.3% 13%–31% | 17.4% | ordinary ×1.27 | 182 d |    | |
| Economy | 118 | 66 | 18 | 16.1% 11%–24% | 14.7% | ordinary ×0.58 | 184 d |    | |
| Third-Person Shooter | 79 | 21 | 15 | 16.5% 10%–26% | 14.5% | ordinary ×0.53 | 195 d |    | |
| Boomer Shooter | 215 | 76 | 20 | 14.4% 10%–20% | 13.8% | cliché ×3.92 | 195 d |    | |
| Automobile Sim | 66 | 18 | 10 | 15.2% 8%–26% | 13.2% | ordinary ×0.96 | 157 d |  | |
| Gambling | 63 | 32 | 11 | 14.3% 8%–25% | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.19 | 181 d |   | |
| Stealth | 122 | 32 | 15 | 13.1% 8%–20% | 12.2% | ordinary ×0.71 | 98 d |    | |
| God Game | 24 | 12 | 20 | 16.7% 7%–36% | 12.1% | ordinary ×0.45 | 191 d |    | |
| Auto Battler | 100 | 55 | 17 | 13.0% 8%–21% | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.87 | 176 d |    | |
| Immersive Sim | 239 | 96 | 27 | 12.1% 9%–17% | 11.7% | ordinary ×0.60 | 98 d |   | |
| Management | 271 | 137 | 18 | 11.8% 8%–16% | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.66 | 98 d |  | |
| Idler | 253 | 156 | 18 | 11.5% 8%–16% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.85 | 146 d | | |
| Character Action Game | 19 | 3 | 54 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×1.14 | 337 d |    | |
| Baseball | 10 | 1 | 2 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×1.22 | 477 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.
