Shooter games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Shooter on Steam: 14,615 released games, 2,595 in the last 12 months, 6,762 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lore-Rich | 101 | 35 | 24 | 19.8% 13%–29% | 17.6% | ordinary ×0.53 | 92 d |    | |
| Narrative | 16 | 2 | 18 | under 20 | 17.6% | avoided ×0.29 | 160 d |    | |
| Noir | 61 | 17 | 20 | 19.7% 12%–31% | 16.5% | ordinary ×1.00 | 169 d |    | |
| Realistic | 787 | 209 | 13 | 15.4% 13%–18% | 15.2% | ordinary ×1.43 | 96 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 537 | 162 | 16 | 15.5% 13%–19% | 15.1% | ordinary ×0.54 | 92 d |  | |
| Fast-Paced | 241 | 78 | 22 | 15.8% 12%–21% | 15.1% | cliché ×3.04 | 126 d |    | |
| Nostalgia | 16 | 4 | 20 | under 20 | 14.8% | ordinary ×0.86 | 320 d |    | |
| Violent | 639 | 208 | 13 | 13.6% 11%–16% | 13.4% | cliché ×2.61 | 91 d |   | |
| Gore | 558 | 185 | 16 | 13.6% 11%–17% | 13.4% | cliché ×2.65 | 169 d |  | |
| Cinematic | 201 | 61 | 13 | 13.9% 10%–19% | 13.3% | ordinary ×1.04 | 92 d | | |
| Dark Humor | 173 | 56 | 20 | 12.7% 9%–19% | 12.1% | ordinary ×1.09 | 190 d |   | |
| First-Person | 2036 | 602 | 14 | 11.8% 11%–13% | 11.8% | cliché ×2.07 | 90 d |  | |
| Atmospheric | 1105 | 346 | 12 | 11.6% 10%–14% | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.93 | 92 d | | |
| Anime | 372 | 100 | 21 | 11.6% 9%–15% | 11.3% | ordinary ×0.54 | 133 d |    | |
| Memes | 81 | 23 | 22 | 12.3% 7%–21% | 11.2% | ordinary ×1.00 | 100 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.
