Science games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Science on Steam: 1,570 released games, 494 in the last 12 months, 688 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Realistic | 110 | 40 | 23 | 17.3% 11%–25% | 15.6% | cliché ×2.17 | 187 d |    | |
| Gore | 6 | 4 | 28 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.36 | 406 d |  | |
| Difficult | 28 | 6 | 15 | 14.3% 6%–31% | 11.1% | ordinary ×1.23 | 138 d |    | |
| First-Person | 141 | 48 | 17 | 11.3% 7%–18% | 10.8% | ordinary ×1.36 | 106 d |  | |
| Pixel Graphics | 78 | 26 | 11 | 11.5% 6%–20% | 10.5% | ordinary ×0.78 | 138 d |   | |
| 3D | 222 | 73 | 11 | 10.8% 7%–16% | 10.5% | ordinary ×1.30 | 106 d |   | |
| Cute | 80 | 23 | 15 | 10.0% 5%–19% | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.77 | 242 d |    | |
| Dynamic Narration | 5 | 2 | 11 | under 20 | 9.3% | cliché ×1.86 | 106 d |  | |
| Violent | 5 | 4 | 28 | under 20 | 9.3% | avoided ×0.26 | 406 d | | |
| Dark Humor | 17 | 4 | 19 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×1.24 | 952 d |  | |
| Satire | 6 | 2 | 3 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.97 | 1086 d | | |
| Colorful | 135 | 41 | 10 | 8.9% 5%–15% | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.16 | 138 d |   | |
| Atmospheric | 152 | 46 | 14 | 8.6% 5%–14% | 8.3% | ordinary ×1.32 | 138 d |  | |
| Voxel | 8 | 2 | 1 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×1.33 | 215 d | | |
| Stylized | 83 | 33 | 9 | 8.4% 4%–16% | 8.1% | ordinary ×1.22 | 215 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.
