The niche at a glance
Rome on Steam: 290 released games, 84 in the last 12 months, 121 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isometric | 16 | 8 | 22 | under 20 | 12.0% | cliché ×3.04 | 544 d |    | |
| Pixel Graphics | 21 | 9 | 12 | 14.3% 5%–35% | 10.6% | ordinary ×0.83 | 161 d |    | |
| Top-Down | 14 | 7 | 15 | under 20 | 9.8% | ordinary ×1.34 | 392 d |  | |
| Lore-Rich | 5 | 3 | 4 | under 20 | 9.3% | cliché ×1.74 | 161 d | | |
| 2.5D | 6 | 2 | 19 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×1.44 | 544 d | | |
| Old School | 7 | 3 | 36 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.18 | 161 d | | |
| 3D | 42 | 10 | 25 | 9.5% 4%–22% | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.27 | 392 d |  | |
| Retro | 9 | 4 | 25 | under 20 | 8.0% | ordinary ×0.73 | 161 d | | |
| Story Rich | 22 | 10 | 27 | 9.1% 3%–28% | 7.9% | ordinary ×1.06 | 161 d |  | |
| Relaxing | 10 | 1 | 21 | under 20 | 7.8% | ordinary ×0.74 | 726 d | | |
| Third Person | 13 | 2 | 25 | under 20 | 7.1% | ordinary ×1.33 | 974 d | | |
| Atmospheric | 15 | 4 | 23 | under 20 | 6.7% | ordinary ×0.69 | 810 d |  | |
| Realistic | 16 | 5 | 35 | under 20 | 6.5% | cliché ×1.98 | 544 d | | |
| Cinematic | 5 | 2 | 49 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×1.15 | never | ||
| Dialogue Heavy | 5 | 1 | 31 | under 20 | 5.3% | cliché ×1.67 | never |
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.
