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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wuxia | 13 | 8 | 593 | under 20 | 25.2% | ordinary ×1.05 | 182 d |    | |
| Villain Protagonist | 9 | 0 | 141 | under 20 | 18.4% | ordinary ×1.11 | 723 d |    | |
| World War II | 16 | 5 | 16 | under 20 | 17.6% | ordinary ×0.56 | 215 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 74 | 18 | 33 | 20.3% 13%–31% | 17.4% | ordinary ×1.27 | 182 d |  | |
| Outbreak Sim | 9 | 6 | 19 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×0.64 | 100 d |    | |
| Artificial Intelligence | 88 | 35 | 10 | 14.8% 9%–24% | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.57 | 169 d |    | |
| Capitalism | 98 | 53 | 23 | 13.3% 8%–21% | 12.1% | ordinary ×0.91 | 131 d |    | |
| Gothic | 63 | 23 | 21 | 12.7% 7%–23% | 11.2% | ordinary ×1.30 | 278 d |    | |
| Noir | 81 | 27 | 13 | 12.3% 7%–21% | 11.2% | ordinary ×1.23 | 195 d |   | |
| Baseball | 10 | 1 | 2 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×1.22 | 477 d |   | |
| Detective | 146 | 49 | 17 | 11.0% 7%–17% | 10.4% | ordinary ×0.85 | 98 d |  | |
| Farming Sim | 33 | 10 | 20 | 12.1% 5%–27% | 10.0% | ordinary ×0.39 | 216 d |    | |
| Dating Sim | 44 | 11 | 33 | 11.4% 5%–24% | 9.9% | avoided ×0.20 | 547 d |  | |
| Mechs | 44 | 14 | 13 | 11.4% 5%–24% | 9.9% | ordinary ×1.01 | 546 d |    | |
| Psychological Horror | 603 | 216 | 26 | 10.0% 8%–13% | 9.8% | ordinary ×1.01 | 93 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.
