Shoot 'Em Up games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Shoot 'Em Up on Steam: 5,667 released games, 1,204 in the last 12 months, 1,617 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 included2,030 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsShoot 'Em Up × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychological Horror | 20 | 3 | 8 | 20.0% 8%–42% | 13.3% | avoided ×0.20 | 113 d |    | |
| World War II | 15 | 3 | 14 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.33 | 809 d |    | |
| Tanks | 26 | 7 | 6 | 15.4% 6%–34% | 11.6% | cliché ×3.34 | 351 d |  | |
| Superhero | 9 | 3 | 2 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×1.31 | 809 d |  | |
| Mechs | 53 | 10 | 24 | 13.2% 7%–25% | 11.4% | cliché ×4.23 | 351 d |   | |
| Vampires | 20 | 6 | 13 | 15.0% 5%–36% | 10.8% | ordinary ×1.08 | 893 d |    | |
| Conspiracy | 13 | 0 | 4 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.72 | 775 d |   | |
| Faith | 17 | 6 | 17 | under 20 | 9.0% | cliché ×2.59 | 384 d |   | |
| Farming Sim | 6 | 1 | 6 | under 20 | 9.0% | avoided ×0.18 | 939 d |  | |
| Cold War | 7 | 2 | 21 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.34 | 705 d |  | |
| Music | 19 | 2 | 20 | under 20 | 8.5% | ordinary ×1.00 | 843 d |   | |
| Dating Sim | 8 | 1 | 32 | under 20 | 8.3% | avoided ×0.16 | 816 d |  | |
| Heist | 8 | 1 | 3 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×1.18 | 999 d |  | |
| Spaceships | 23 | 5 | 3 | 8.7% 2%–27% | 7.8% | cliché ×5.66 | 610 d |   | |
| Dark Fantasy | 91 | 19 | 5 | 7.7% 4%–15% | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.76 | 384 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.
