The niche at a glance

Singleplayer on Steam: 93,638 released games, 22,587 in the last 12 months, 44,094 announced and still unreleased. Of the 44,245 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 9 lifetime reviews. 50% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Singleplayer 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 included44,245 releases
p100
p252
median9
p7542
p90227
50% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $4.99 · 10% 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
2,603median 55 · 20% under 10 reviews
2020
5,446median 23 · 33% under 10 reviews
2021
7,992median 17 · 37% under 10 reviews
2022
8,825median 17 · 37% under 10 reviews
2023
10,296median 14 · 42% under 10 reviews
2024
13,994median 13 · 44% under 10 reviews
2025
16,330median 10 · 50% under 10 reviews
2026
19,406median 6 · 58% under 10 reviews · 7,391 too fresh