Runner games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Runner on Steam: 2,889 released games, 679 in the last 12 months, 806 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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Post-apocalyptic | 25 | 4 | 9 | 12.0% 4%–30% | 9.6% | ordinary ×0.76 | 761 d |    | |
| Birds | 5 | 1 | 2 | under 20 | 9.3% | cliché ×2.96 | 630 d |  | |
| Underwater | 5 | 0 | 16 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.88 | 486 d |  | |
| Dating Sim | 6 | 0 | 34 | under 20 | 9.0% | avoided ×0.07 | 418 d |  | |
| Historical | 7 | 1 | 17 | under 20 | 8.6% | avoided ×0.33 | 420 d |  | |
| Romance | 7 | 0 | 34 | under 20 | 8.6% | avoided ×0.13 | 418 d | | |
| Mechs | 8 | 1 | 4 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×1.08 | 513 d |  | |
| Science | 9 | 0 | 2 | under 20 | 8.0% | ordinary ×0.81 | 545 d |  | |
| Capitalism | 10 | 4 | 3 | under 20 | 7.8% | avoided ×0.35 | 486 d | | |
| Skating | 10 | 2 | 3 | under 20 | 7.8% | cliché ×6.59 | 464 d |  | |
| Military | 11 | 4 | 2 | under 20 | 7.5% | avoided ×0.29 | 513 d | | |
| Motorbike | 14 | 2 | 1 | under 20 | 6.9% | cliché ×5.11 | 1083 d | | |
| Medieval | 29 | 3 | 17 | 6.9% 2%–22% | 6.8% | ordinary ×0.52 | 386 d |  | |
| Ninja | 19 | 4 | 1 | under 20 | 6.0% | cliché ×3.32 | 1083 d | | |
| Music | 23 | 7 | 13 | 4.3% 1%–21% | 5.4% | cliché ×2.51 | 1083 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.
