The niche at a glance

Sequel on Steam: 307 released games, 25 in the last 12 months, 22 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 27. 25% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 4%. Sequel 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 included57 releases
p101
p2510
median27
p75119
p901,857
25% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $7.74 · 4% free-to-play

Releases per year

outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews
2019
29med 37 · 14% unseen
2020
28med 112 · 18% unseen
2021
19med 149 · 11% unseen
2022
25med 35 · 24% unseen
2023
36med 42 · 25% unseen
2024
22med 31 · 18% unseen
2025
19med 80 · 16% unseen
2026
19med 2 · 60% unseen · 9 too fresh