Souls-like games on Steam
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Souls-like on Steam: 2,386 released games, 711 in the last 12 months, 1,382 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 15. 42% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Souls-like 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 included1,098 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsSouls-like × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Souls-like at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Souls-like × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LGBTQ+ | 26 | 2 | 215 | 42.3% 26%–61% | 26.8% | ordinary ×0.95 | 383 d |    | |
| Psychological Horror | 99 | 24 | 64 | 29.3% 21%–39% | 25.5% | ordinary ×1.05 | 113 d |   | |
| Female Protagonist | 156 | 46 | 46 | 26.3% 20%–34% | 24.1% | cliché ×1.69 | 96 d |   | |
| Mythology | 56 | 16 | 73 | 26.8% 17%–40% | 21.5% | cliché ×3.59 | 140 d |   | |
| Dark Fantasy | 353 | 121 | 25 | 21.8% 18%–26% | 21.0% | cliché ×7.22 | 127 d |   | |
| Gothic | 52 | 20 | 47 | 25.0% 15%–38% | 19.9% | cliché ×5.42 | 138 d |    | |
| Horror | 143 | 33 | 46 | 21.0% 15%–28% | 19.2% | ordinary ×1.22 | 138 d |  | |
| Futuristic | 39 | 10 | 13 | 25.6% 15%–41% | 19.2% | ordinary ×0.69 | 96 d |   | |
| Fantasy | 342 | 110 | 16 | 19.3% 15%–24% | 18.6% | cliché ×2.36 | 96 d |  | |
| Dragons | 33 | 7 | 36 | 24.2% 13%–41% | 17.6% | cliché ×3.25 | 116 d |   | |
| Artificial Intelligence | 17 | 6 | 18 | under 20 | 17.1% | ordinary ×0.66 | 180 d |  | |
| Survival Horror | 35 | 7 | 25 | 22.9% 12%–39% | 17.0% | ordinary ×0.90 | 189 d |   | |
| Dating Sim | 30 | 8 | 121 | 23.3% 12%–41% | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.60 | 116 d |  | |
| Modern | 6 | 3 | 80 | under 20 | 16.7% | avoided ×0.34 | 196 d |    | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 43 | 10 | 15 | 20.9% 11%–35% | 16.4% | cliché ×1.86 | 489 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.
