Sandbox games on Steam
Sandbox on Steam: 8,908 released games, 3,178 in the last 12 months, 4,872 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 18. 41% 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 included3,749 releasesp100
p250
median18
p75152
p901,188
41% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $9.99 · 10% free-to-play
Releases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago — anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2019
307med 253 · 14% unseen
2020
388med 84 · 23% unseen
2021
621med 35 · 30% unseen
2022
637med 40 · 30% unseen
2023
861med 29 · 32% unseen
2024
1,050med 31 · 31% unseen
2025
1,269med 23 · 37% unseen
2026
1,802med 0 · 59% unseen · 670 too fresh
Best known here
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Latest releases
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