Social Deduction games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Social Deduction on Steam: 325 released games, 166 in the last 12 months, 207 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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First-Person | 39 | 21 | 40 | 23.1% 13%–38% | 17.5% | cliché ×2.21 | 193 d |    | |
| Horror | 26 | 11 | 43 | 23.1% 11%–42% | 15.9% | cliché ×1.66 | 193 d |   | |
| Dark Humor | 6 | 5 | 96 | under 20 | 12.8% | cliché ×2.41 | 243 d |  | |
| Psychological | 30 | 15 | 37 | 16.7% 7%–34% | 12.7% | cliché ×7.60 | 193 d |    | |
| 3D | 55 | 31 | 28 | 14.5% 8%–26% | 12.4% | cliché ×1.74 | 243 d | | |
| Dark | 15 | 7 | 37 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.28 | 276 d |  | |
| Pixel Graphics | 7 | 4 | 91 | under 20 | 12.3% | avoided ×0.34 | 193 d |  | |
| Realistic | 7 | 2 | 27 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.56 | 408 d |  | |
| Third Person | 16 | 6 | 28 | under 20 | 12.0% | cliché ×1.67 | 243 d | | |
| Funny | 60 | 33 | 24 | 11.7% 6%–22% | 10.4% | cliché ×4.22 | 276 d | | |
| Comedy | 22 | 15 | 43 | 13.6% 5%–33% | 10.3% | cliché ×3.06 | 351 d | | |
| Atmospheric | 14 | 7 | 7 | under 20 | 9.8% | ordinary ×0.75 | 193 d | | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 28 | 17 | 12 | 10.7% 4%–27% | 9.0% | cliché ×5.74 | 243 d |  | |
| Cartoony | 17 | 7 | 13 | under 20 | 9.0% | cliché ×2.19 | 325 d | | |
| Thriller | 6 | 4 | 2 | under 20 | 9.0% | cliché ×2.30 | 243 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.
