Satire games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Satire on Steam: 1,364 released games, 531 in the last 12 months, 728 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 48% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 13%. 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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mystery | 36 | 8 | 20 | 25.0% 14%–41% | 18.5% | ordinary ×0.90 | 167 d |    | |
| Psychological Horror | 65 | 18 | 42 | 16.9% 10%–28% | 14.5% | ordinary ×1.21 | 131 d |   | |
| Dystopian | 17 | 7 | 55 | under 20 | 14.4% | cliché ×6.02 | 131 d |    | |
| Horror | 67 | 17 | 23 | 16.4% 9%–27% | 14.2% | ordinary ×0.84 | 319 d |  | |
| Detective | 14 | 5 | 25 | under 20 | 12.7% | ordinary ×1.33 | 167 d |    | |
| Cold War | 7 | 3 | 26 | under 20 | 12.3% | cliché ×4.62 | 652 d |  | |
| LGBTQ+ | 32 | 14 | 31 | 15.6% 7%–32% | 12.2% | cliché ×1.57 | 131 d |  | |
| Dating Sim | 35 | 14 | 14 | 14.3% 6%–29% | 11.5% | cliché ×1.67 | 246 d |   | |
| Demons | 9 | 5 | 69 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.97 | 167 d |  | |
| Military | 9 | 2 | 13 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.83 | 782 d |  | |
| Medieval | 10 | 4 | 26 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.49 | 312 d |   | |
| Historical | 19 | 8 | 6 | under 20 | 11.1% | ordinary ×1.17 | 572 d | | |
| Thriller | 20 | 5 | 11 | 15.0% 5%–36% | 10.8% | ordinary ×0.99 | 431 d |  | |
| Job Simulator | 12 | 3 | 59 | under 20 | 10.4% | cliché ×4.44 | 393 d |   | |
| Magic | 12 | 5 | 5 | under 20 | 10.4% | ordinary ×0.49 | 249 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.
