Social Deduction games on Steam
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Social Deduction on Steam: 325 released games, 166 in the last 12 months, 209 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 16. 44% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 15%. Social Deduction 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 included125 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsSocial Deduction × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Social Deduction at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Social Deduction × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychological Horror | 13 | 5 | 37 | under 20 | 16.2% | ordinary ×1.35 | 193 d |    | |
| Horror | 26 | 11 | 43 | 23.1% 11%–42% | 15.9% | cliché ×1.65 | 193 d |  | |
| Survival Horror | 16 | 8 | 29 | under 20 | 14.8% | cliché ×2.25 | 193 d | | |
| Space | 5 | 1 | 9 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×1.28 | 329 d |   | |
| Sci-fi | 9 | 1 | 33 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×0.85 | 329 d | | |
| Thriller | 6 | 4 | 2 | under 20 | 9.0% | cliché ×2.30 | 243 d |  | |
| Detective | 29 | 14 | 7 | 10.3% 4%–26% | 8.8% | cliché ×9.61 | 243 d | | |
| Mystery | 31 | 14 | 8 | 6.5% 2%–21% | 6.5% | cliché ×3.56 | 325 d |  | |
| Conspiracy | 5 | 1 | 18 | under 20 | 5.3% | cliché ×6.64 | never | ||
| Assassins | 6 | 2 | 2 | under 20 | 5.1% | cliché ×14.55 | never | ||
| Crime | 6 | 3 | 6 | under 20 | 5.1% | cliché ×5.58 | never | ||
| Medieval | 11 | 6 | 19 | under 20 | 4.3% | cliché ×1.54 | never | ||
| Fantasy | 14 | 5 | 21 | under 20 | 3.9% | ordinary ×0.49 | never |
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.
