Satire games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Satire on Steam: 1,365 released games, 532 in the last 12 months, 731 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 48% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Satire 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 included585 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsSatire × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Satire at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Satire × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turn-Based Strategy | 14 | 7 | 19 | under 20 | 15.7% | ordinary ×0.96 | 131 d |    | |
| Word Game | 14 | 2 | 12 | under 20 | 15.7% | cliché ×2.14 | 131 d |    | |
| Hack and Slash | 15 | 5 | 31 | under 20 | 15.2% | ordinary ×0.79 | 312 d |    | |
| Building | 9 | 3 | 86 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×0.42 | 180 d |    | |
| Life Sim | 50 | 22 | 12 | 18.0% 10%–31% | 14.8% | cliché ×2.59 | 331 d |  | |
| Investigation | 17 | 6 | 11 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.23 | 167 d |    | |
| Walking Simulator | 38 | 7 | 25 | 18.4% 9%–33% | 14.4% | cliché ×1.53 | 385 d |    | |
| Souls-like | 12 | 4 | 38 | under 20 | 13.5% | ordinary ×1.13 | 331 d |  | |
| Management | 43 | 20 | 11 | 16.3% 8%–30% | 13.2% | cliché ×1.76 | 180 d |  | |
| Incremental | 60 | 21 | 16 | 15.0% 8%–26% | 12.9% | cliché ×1.96 | 246 d |   | |
| Exploration | 88 | 21 | 19 | 13.6% 8%–22% | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.89 | 331 d |  | |
| Roguelike | 32 | 14 | 12 | 15.6% 7%–32% | 12.2% | ordinary ×0.83 | 131 d |  | |
| Trivia | 8 | 3 | 43 | under 20 | 11.9% | cliché ×2.00 | 589 d |  | |
| Multiple Endings | 94 | 32 | 17 | 12.8% 7%–21% | 11.7% | cliché ×2.16 | 153 d |   | |
| Dating Sim | 35 | 14 | 14 | 14.3% 6%–29% | 11.5% | cliché ×1.66 | 246 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.
