The niche at a glance
Snow on Steam: 675 released games, 231 in the last 12 months, 304 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 7. 56% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Snow 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 included313 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsSnow × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Snow at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Snow × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Automobile Sim | 8 | 3 | 315 | under 20 | 19.0% | cliché ×3.01 | 299 d |    | |
| Driving | 14 | 3 | 26 | under 20 | 18.6% | cliché ×3.56 | 299 d | | |
| Physics | 38 | 15 | 8 | 21.1% 11%–36% | 16.1% | cliché ×1.90 | 165 d | | |
| Sandbox | 21 | 11 | 80 | 23.8% 11%–45% | 15.4% | cliché ×1.75 | 165 d |   | |
| Immersive Sim | 24 | 7 | 43 | 20.8% 9%–40% | 14.4% | cliché ×1.61 | 334 d |  | |
| Racing | 24 | 5 | 15 | 20.8% 9%–40% | 14.4% | cliché ×2.68 | 299 d | | |
| Character Customization | 19 | 7 | 31 | under 20 | 13.7% | ordinary ×1.12 | 166 d |  | |
| Trains | 5 | 4 | 10 | under 20 | 13.3% | cliché ×4.63 | 235 d |   | |
| Open World | 30 | 10 | 35 | 16.7% 7%–34% | 12.7% | cliché ×2.25 | 166 d | | |
| Crafting | 23 | 15 | 14 | 17.4% 7%–37% | 12.4% | cliché ×2.02 | 165 d |  | |
| Exploration | 96 | 35 | 16 | 13.5% 8%–22% | 12.4% | cliché ×1.94 | 165 d | | |
| Loot | 7 | 4 | 2 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×1.23 | 165 d |  | |
| Life Sim | 9 | 3 | 236 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×1.20 | 299 d |  | |
| Simulation | 62 | 23 | 16 | 12.9% 7%–23% | 11.4% | ordinary ×1.21 | 165 d |  | |
| Mining | 10 | 9 | 31 | under 20 | 11.1% | cliché ×2.75 | 165 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.
