Sandbox games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Sandbox on Steam: 7,962 released games, 2,054 in the last 12 months, 5,599 announced and still unreleased. Of the 3,515 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 25 lifetime reviews. 35% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Sandbox 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 included3,515 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsSandbox × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Sandbox at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Sandbox × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historical | 163 | 61 | 146 | 34.4% 28%–42% | 31.3% | cliché ×1.64 | 97 d |    | |
| Wuxia | 9 | 7 | 3,302 | under 20 | 28.7% | cliché ×1.55 | 113 d |    | |
| Military | 110 | 38 | 80 | 30.0% 22%–39% | 26.4% | ordinary ×1.39 | 104 d |    | |
| Naval Combat | 23 | 7 | 137 | 43.5% 26%–63% | 26.3% | cliché ×2.58 | 229 d |   | |
| Sailing | 36 | 7 | 117 | 36.1% 22%–52% | 25.6% | cliché ×2.93 | 229 d |   | |
| War | 135 | 45 | 57 | 28.1% 21%–36% | 25.4% | ordinary ×1.43 | 97 d | | |
| Naval | 29 | 5 | 143 | 37.9% 23%–56% | 25.2% | cliché ×2.57 | 229 d |  | |
| Farming | 41 | 11 | 105 | 34.1% 22%–49% | 25.1% | cliché ×3.91 | 104 d |    | |
| Trains | 49 | 18 | 247 | 32.7% 21%–47% | 25.1% | cliché ×3.46 | 197 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 30 | 16 | 183 | 36.7% 22%–54% | 24.7% | ordinary ×0.97 | 134 d |  | |
| Alternate History | 62 | 19 | 38 | 29.0% 19%–41% | 23.6% | ordinary ×1.19 | 196 d |   | |
| Fishing | 94 | 35 | 38 | 26.6% 19%–36% | 23.1% | cliché ×3.11 | 104 d |   | |
| Transportation | 90 | 33 | 54 | 26.7% 19%–37% | 23.0% | cliché ×4.50 | 104 d |    | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 168 | 61 | 33 | 24.4% 19%–31% | 22.5% | cliché ×1.52 | 125 d |    | |
| Mining | 142 | 65 | 23 | 24.6% 18%–32% | 22.4% | cliché ×4.15 | 90 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.
