The niche at a glance
Rome on Steam: 290 released games, 84 in the last 12 months, 120 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 24. 32% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Rome 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 included106 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsRome × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Rome at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Rome × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resource Management | 11 | 3 | 489 | under 20 | 20.4% | cliché ×2.15 | 182 d |    | |
| Management | 21 | 9 | 90 | 33.3% 17%–55% | 20.3% | cliché ×2.97 | 161 d |  | |
| City Builder | 12 | 6 | 276 | under 20 | 19.8% | cliché ×5.90 | 335 d | | |
| Simulation | 33 | 13 | 36 | 24.2% 13%–41% | 17.6% | cliché ×1.58 | 161 d |  | |
| Turn-Based Strategy | 17 | 8 | 36 | under 20 | 17.1% | cliché ×3.98 | 161 d |  | |
| Choices Matter | 13 | 6 | 54 | under 20 | 16.2% | cliché ×1.53 | 182 d | | |
| Base Building | 14 | 5 | 36 | under 20 | 15.7% | cliché ×2.91 | 215 d |  | |
| Sandbox | 9 | 4 | 276 | under 20 | 14.9% | cliché ×1.65 | 335 d | | |
| Strategy | 44 | 16 | 27 | 18.2% 10%–32% | 14.6% | cliché ×2.37 | 182 d | | |
| Building | 11 | 5 | 105 | under 20 | 14.0% | cliché ×2.31 | 335 d | | |
| Turn-Based Combat | 11 | 6 | 36 | under 20 | 14.0% | cliché ×2.49 | 161 d |   | |
| Tactical | 12 | 6 | 45 | under 20 | 13.5% | cliché ×3.60 | 182 d | | |
| Strategy RPG | 6 | 2 | 6 | under 20 | 12.8% | cliché ×3.93 | 215 d | | |
| RPG | 23 | 12 | 54 | 17.4% 7%–37% | 12.4% | cliché ×1.52 | 161 d | | |
| Choose Your Own Adventure | 7 | 4 | 54 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×1.49 | 335 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.
