Shooter games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Shooter on Steam: 14,614 released games, 2,594 in the last 12 months, 6,764 announced and still unreleased. Of the 5,880 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 9 lifetime reviews. 51% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 13%. Shooter 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 included5,880 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsShooter × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Shooter at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Shooter × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Villain Protagonist | 8 | 0 | 75 | under 20 | 19.0% | ordinary ×0.65 | 741 d |    | |
| World War II | 77 | 18 | 23 | 22.1% 14%–33% | 18.9% | cliché ×2.82 | 177 d |    | |
| Mechs | 142 | 34 | 17 | 20.4% 15%–28% | 18.7% | cliché ×3.37 | 126 d |    | |
| Naval | 21 | 6 | 11 | 28.6% 14%–50% | 17.9% | ordinary ×1.00 | 146 d |   | |
| Heist | 28 | 12 | 11 | 25.0% 13%–43% | 17.3% | cliché ×2.01 | 265 d |    | |
| Noir | 61 | 17 | 20 | 19.7% 12%–31% | 16.5% | ordinary ×1.00 | 169 d |   | |
| Crime | 111 | 32 | 12 | 18.0% 12%–26% | 16.3% | ordinary ×1.29 | 169 d |    | |
| Military | 564 | 157 | 11 | 14.9% 12%–18% | 14.6% | cliché ×4.03 | 90 d |    | |
| Historical | 99 | 23 | 24 | 16.2% 10%–25% | 14.6% | ordinary ×0.62 | 177 d |  | |
| Horses | 10 | 2 | 16 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×0.71 | 729 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 53 | 22 | 47 | 17.0% 9%–29% | 14.1% | avoided ×0.25 | 237 d |   | |
| Capitalism | 54 | 20 | 32 | 16.7% 9%–29% | 14.0% | ordinary ×0.53 | 188 d |   | |
| Naval Combat | 26 | 8 | 11 | 19.2% 9%–38% | 13.8% | ordinary ×1.38 | 146 d |  | |
| Martial Arts | 19 | 5 | 4 | under 20 | 13.7% | ordinary ×0.45 | 142 d |    | |
| Cold War | 41 | 13 | 21 | 17.1% 9%–31% | 13.6% | cliché ×2.67 | 153 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.
