Shoot 'Em Up games on Steam
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Shoot 'Em Up on Steam: 5,663 released games, 1,202 in the last 12 months, 1,619 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 5. 58% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Shoot 'Em Up 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 included2,027 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsShoot 'Em Up × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Shoot 'Em Up at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Shoot 'Em Up × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memes | 15 | 3 | 20 | under 20 | 15.2% | ordinary ×0.82 | 113 d |    | |
| Dark Comedy | 25 | 5 | 10 | 12.0% 4%–30% | 9.6% | ordinary ×0.99 | 764 d |    | |
| Lore-Rich | 15 | 4 | 13 | under 20 | 9.5% | avoided ×0.34 | 257 d |   | |
| Experimental | 5 | 0 | 13 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.78 | 587 d |  | |
| FMV | 6 | 1 | 5 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.52 | 257 d | | |
| Music | 19 | 2 | 20 | under 20 | 8.5% | ordinary ×1.00 | 843 d |   | |
| Nostalgia | 8 | 2 | 7 | under 20 | 8.3% | cliché ×1.84 | 767 d |  | |
| Dark Humor | 59 | 12 | 14 | 8.5% 4%–18% | 8.0% | ordinary ×1.09 | 764 d |  | |
| Story Rich | 116 | 23 | 11 | 7.8% 4%–14% | 7.6% | ordinary ×0.39 | 423 d |  | |
| Emotional | 27 | 4 | 7 | 7.4% 2%–23% | 7.1% | avoided ×0.18 | 384 d |  | |
| Psychedelic | 56 | 22 | 10 | 7.1% 3%–17% | 7.0% | cliché ×1.76 | 113 d |   | |
| Horror | 117 | 35 | 4 | 6.8% 4%–13% | 6.8% | ordinary ×0.54 | 235 d |  | |
| Fast-Paced | 61 | 16 | 13 | 6.6% 3%–16% | 6.6% | cliché ×3.09 | 257 d |  | |
| Satire | 16 | 3 | 4 | under 20 | 6.5% | ordinary ×1.00 | 1014 d | | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 17 | 2 | 17 | under 20 | 6.3% | avoided ×0.23 | 740 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.
