Runner games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Runner on Steam: 2,891 released games, 681 in the last 12 months, 803 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 3. 66% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 14%. Runner 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 included1,270 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsRunner × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Runner at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Runner × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gore | 13 | 7 | 7 | under 20 | 13.1% | ordinary ×0.39 | 386 d |    | |
| Dark Humor | 34 | 9 | 11 | 11.8% 5%–27% | 9.9% | ordinary ×0.95 | 486 d |    | |
| Difficult | 101 | 31 | 8 | 9.9% 5%–17% | 9.4% | cliché ×2.28 | 313 d |   | |
| Violent | 17 | 8 | 3 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.37 | 761 d | | |
| Voxel | 9 | 2 | 8 | under 20 | 8.0% | ordinary ×1.29 | 594 d |  | |
| Fast-Paced | 68 | 22 | 12 | 7.4% 3%–16% | 7.2% | cliché ×4.52 | 386 d |  | |
| Lore-Rich | 13 | 4 | 4 | under 20 | 7.1% | ordinary ×0.43 | 823 d | | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 14 | 4 | 6 | under 20 | 6.9% | avoided ×0.34 | 486 d | | |
| Anime | 50 | 18 | 12 | 6.0% 2%–16% | 6.2% | ordinary ×0.53 | 380 d |   | |
| Music | 23 | 7 | 13 | 4.3% 1%–21% | 5.4% | cliché ×2.51 | 1083 d | | |
| Dark Comedy | 7 | 1 | 4 | under 20 | 4.9% | ordinary ×0.75 | never | ||
| Nostalgia | 7 | 0 | 1 | under 20 | 4.9% | cliché ×1.69 | never | ||
| Electronic Music | 8 | 2 | 2 | under 20 | 4.8% | cliché ×6.81 | never | ||
| Gothic | 8 | 4 | 5 | under 20 | 4.8% | ordinary ×0.58 | never | ||
| Short | 11 | 2 | 8 | under 20 | 4.3% | ordinary ×0.55 | 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.
