Rhythm games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Rhythm on Steam: 2,097 released games, 614 in the last 12 months, 743 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 7. 53% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. Rhythm 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 included887 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsRhythm × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Rhythm at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Rhythm × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychological Horror | 27 | 10 | 29 | 18.5% 8%–37% | 13.5% | ordinary ×0.44 | 173 d |    | |
| Music | 256 | 81 | 16 | 12.9% 9%–18% | 12.4% | cliché ×32.43 | 135 d |    | |
| Modern | 25 | 10 | 12 | 16.0% 6%–35% | 11.9% | cliché ×1.63 | 169 d |   | |
| LGBTQ+ | 33 | 12 | 24 | 12.1% 5%–27% | 10.1% | ordinary ×1.33 | 173 d |   | |
| Female Protagonist | 103 | 32 | 26 | 10.7% 6%–18% | 10.0% | ordinary ×1.26 | 173 d | | |
| Romance | 29 | 10 | 17 | 10.3% 4%–26% | 8.8% | ordinary ×0.79 | 116 d |    | |
| 1990's | 30 | 11 | 6 | 10.0% 3%–26% | 8.7% | ordinary ×1.08 | 308 d |   | |
| Noir | 7 | 3 | 28 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×0.85 | 389 d | | |
| Superhero | 7 | 3 | 3 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.43 | 390 d | | |
| Zombies | 8 | 3 | 1 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.36 | 523 d |  | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 21 | 7 | 10 | 9.5% 3%–29% | 8.1% | ordinary ×0.57 | 979 d |   | |
| Martial Arts | 9 | 5 | 10 | under 20 | 8.0% | cliché ×2.40 | 161 d | | |
| Dragons | 10 | 6 | 6 | under 20 | 7.8% | ordinary ×0.81 | 116 d | | |
| Fantasy | 104 | 29 | 7 | 6.7% 3%–13% | 6.7% | ordinary ×0.76 | 377 d |   | |
| Historical | 15 | 4 | 7 | under 20 | 6.7% | ordinary ×0.47 | 721 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.
