Spelling games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Spelling on Steam: 492 released games, 177 in the last 12 months, 156 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 5. 62% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Spelling 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 included232 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsSpelling × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Spelling at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Spelling × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emotional | 5 | 1 | 6 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.48 | 1048 d |  | |
| Memes | 6 | 4 | 6 | under 20 | 9.0% | cliché ×1.76 | 170 d |  | |
| Thriller | 7 | 4 | 8 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.10 | 1048 d | | |
| Comedy | 9 | 6 | 1 | under 20 | 8.0% | ordinary ×0.77 | 170 d | | |
| Abstract | 13 | 7 | 2 | under 20 | 7.1% | cliché ×3.08 | 170 d | | |
| Horror | 14 | 5 | 17 | under 20 | 6.9% | ordinary ×0.50 | 1048 d | | |
| Difficult | 5 | 1 | 8 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×0.75 | never | ||
| 2.5D | 6 | 1 | 6 | under 20 | 5.1% | ordinary ×0.85 | never | ||
| Psychological | 6 | 3 | 27 | under 20 | 5.1% | ordinary ×0.75 | never | ||
| Wholesome | 6 | 1 | 20 | under 20 | 5.1% | cliché ×2.25 | never | ||
| Realistic | 8 | 5 | 28 | under 20 | 4.8% | ordinary ×0.41 | never | ||
| Dark | 9 | 3 | 17 | under 20 | 4.6% | ordinary ×0.66 | never | ||
| Cozy | 10 | 3 | 14 | under 20 | 4.4% | cliché ×1.86 | never | ||
| First-Person | 11 | 3 | 6 | under 20 | 4.3% | ordinary ×0.36 | never | ||
| Pixel Graphics | 35 | 13 | 13 | 2.9% 1%–15% | 4.2% | ordinary ×0.78 | 131 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.
