Science games on Steam
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Science on Steam: 1,568 released games, 492 in the last 12 months, 685 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 9. 50% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 13%. Science 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 included618 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsScience × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Science at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Science × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Destruction | 15 | 4 | 219 | under 20 | 23.8% | cliché ×2.15 | 545 d |    | |
| Building | 82 | 27 | 44 | 24.4% 16%–35% | 20.9% | cliché ×2.61 | 187 d |   | |
| Survival | 51 | 15 | 34 | 23.5% 14%–37% | 18.8% | ordinary ×1.38 | 215 d |  | |
| Open World | 48 | 20 | 16 | 22.9% 13%–37% | 18.1% | ordinary ×1.44 | 237 d |   | |
| Transportation | 5 | 1 | 3,116 | under 20 | 17.3% | cliché ×2.06 | 383 d |   | |
| Life Sim | 36 | 13 | 45 | 22.2% 12%–38% | 16.7% | ordinary ×1.28 | 237 d |   | |
| Base Building | 48 | 21 | 73 | 20.8% 12%–34% | 16.7% | cliché ×2.05 | 215 d |  | |
| Management | 79 | 38 | 34 | 19.0% 12%–29% | 16.5% | cliché ×1.98 | 187 d | | |
| Sandbox | 105 | 47 | 27 | 18.1% 12%–27% | 16.3% | cliché ×3.05 | 187 d | | |
| Crafting | 62 | 23 | 28 | 19.4% 11%–31% | 16.3% | cliché ×1.97 | 242 d | | |
| Colony Sim | 20 | 10 | 77 | 25.0% 11%–47% | 15.8% | cliché ×3.53 | 215 d |  | |
| God Game | 28 | 10 | 11 | 21.4% 10%–40% | 15.3% | cliché ×7.07 | 424 d |   | |
| Resource Management | 57 | 23 | 34 | 17.5% 10%–29% | 14.7% | cliché ×1.86 | 187 d | | |
| Mining | 17 | 10 | 87 | under 20 | 14.4% | cliché ×2.46 | 187 d |  | |
| Fishing | 5 | 1 | 25 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.91 | 704 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.
