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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Narrative | 21 | 9 | 37 | 19.0% 8%–40% | 13.0% | ordinary ×0.79 | 236 d |    | |
| Cozy | 23 | 8 | 39 | 17.4% 7%–37% | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.41 | 188 d |    | |
| Dark Humor | 44 | 17 | 16 | 13.6% 6%–27% | 11.4% | ordinary ×0.50 | 190 d |   | |
| Violent | 55 | 25 | 9 | 12.7% 6%–24% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.41 | 92 d |    | |
| Gore | 37 | 10 | 19 | 13.5% 6%–28% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.38 | 364 d |  | |
| Story Rich | 382 | 113 | 20 | 11.3% 8%–15% | 11.0% | ordinary ×0.72 | 92 d |   | |
| First-Person | 436 | 133 | 12 | 11.0% 8%–14% | 10.8% | ordinary ×0.89 | 92 d |  | |
| Psychological | 44 | 16 | 10 | 11.4% 5%–24% | 9.9% | ordinary ×0.41 | 152 d |   | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 76 | 27 | 11 | 10.5% 5%–19% | 9.7% | ordinary ×0.63 | 252 d |    | |
| Realistic | 214 | 83 | 10 | 9.8% 7%–15% | 9.5% | ordinary ×0.85 | 127 d |   | |
| Experimental | 15 | 4 | 40 | under 20 | 9.5% | ordinary ×0.98 | 152 d |   | |
| Gothic | 6 | 1 | 14 | under 20 | 8.9% | avoided ×0.17 | 513 d |  | |
| Thriller | 43 | 15 | 12 | 9.3% 4%–22% | 8.5% | ordinary ×0.43 | 328 d |  | |
| Anime | 150 | 51 | 15 | 8.7% 5%–14% | 8.4% | ordinary ×0.40 | 216 d |    | |
| Cinematic | 81 | 28 | 10 | 8.6% 4%–17% | 8.2% | ordinary ×0.94 | 92 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.
