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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short | 11 | 4 | 26 | under 20 | 10.8% | cliché ×1.94 | 459 d |   | |
| 3D | 124 | 40 | 10 | 10.5% 6%–17% | 10.0% | cliché ×1.60 | 165 d |    | |
| Wholesome | 14 | 3 | 24 | under 20 | 9.8% | cliché ×3.92 | 169 d |  | |
| Violent | 5 | 1 | 9 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.43 | 753 d |  | |
| Relaxing | 96 | 27 | 11 | 9.4% 5%–17% | 8.9% | cliché ×2.22 | 166 d |  | |
| Old School | 19 | 6 | 11 | under 20 | 8.5% | ordinary ×1.22 | 379 d |  | |
| First-Person | 66 | 20 | 11 | 9.1% 4%–18% | 8.5% | cliché ×1.59 | 165 d |   | |
| Comedy | 20 | 3 | 21 | 10.0% 3%–30% | 8.3% | ordinary ×1.11 | 379 d |  | |
| Thriller | 9 | 2 | 53 | under 20 | 8.0% | ordinary ×1.32 | 894 d | | |
| Difficult | 11 | 2 | 3 | under 20 | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.97 | 334 d | | |
| VR | 11 | 4 | 3 | under 20 | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.88 | 546 d | | |
| Realistic | 38 | 9 | 13 | 7.9% 3%–21% | 7.5% | cliché ×1.81 | 334 d |  | |
| Anime | 13 | 5 | 27 | under 20 | 7.1% | ordinary ×0.49 | 169 d | | |
| Psychological | 13 | 4 | 10 | under 20 | 7.1% | ordinary ×1.35 | 894 d | | |
| Hand-drawn | 30 | 7 | 11 | 6.7% 2%–21% | 6.7% | ordinary ×1.36 | 169 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.
