Space games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Space on Steam: 7,141 released games, 1,499 in the last 12 months, 3,561 announced and still unreleased. Of the 2,915 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 7 lifetime reviews. 56% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Space 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 included2,915 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsSpace × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Space at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Space × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open World Survival Craft | 29 | 12 | 100 | 34.5% 20%–53% | 23.1% | cliché ×2.01 | 174 d |    | |
| Real-Time with Pause | 12 | 3 | 67 | under 20 | 19.8% | cliché ×3.70 | 150 d |    | |
| MMORPG | 10 | 6 | 90 | under 20 | 17.8% | ordinary ×0.90 | 139 d |    | |
| Mining | 93 | 47 | 28 | 19.4% 13%–29% | 17.1% | cliché ×3.49 | 152 d |    | |
| Crafting | 165 | 55 | 20 | 18.2% 13%–25% | 16.9% | ordinary ×1.27 | 139 d |  | |
| Open World | 224 | 79 | 15 | 17.4% 13%–23% | 16.5% | ordinary ×1.31 | 139 d |   | |
| Automation | 120 | 55 | 23 | 17.5% 12%–25% | 15.9% | cliché ×1.75 | 127 d |  | |
| Sandbox | 215 | 85 | 18 | 16.7% 12%–22% | 15.9% | ordinary ×1.41 | 139 d |  | |
| City Builder | 60 | 26 | 20 | 18.3% 11%–30% | 15.4% | ordinary ×1.13 | 168 d | | |
| Base Building | 214 | 85 | 26 | 15.9% 12%–21% | 15.1% | cliché ×2.15 | 139 d |  | |
| CRPG | 22 | 9 | 15 | 22.7% 10%–43% | 15.1% | ordinary ×0.37 | 212 d |    | |
| Minigames | 10 | 0 | 9 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×0.78 | 540 d |   | |
| Co-op Campaign | 24 | 9 | 6 | 20.8% 9%–40% | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.30 | 190 d |    | |
| Building | 206 | 73 | 18 | 15.0% 11%–21% | 14.3% | cliché ×1.54 | 148 d |  | |
| Bullet Heaven | 41 | 22 | 21 | 17.1% 9%–31% | 13.6% | cliché ×2.06 | 406 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.
