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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychological Horror | 14 | 6 | 31 | under 20 | 9.8% | ordinary ×0.60 | 131 d |   | |
| Detective | 7 | 5 | 56 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.49 | 1048 d | | |
| Thriller | 7 | 4 | 8 | under 20 | 8.6% | ordinary ×1.11 | 1048 d | | |
| Dating Sim | 8 | 2 | 26 | under 20 | 8.3% | ordinary ×0.44 | 1048 d | | |
| Horror | 14 | 5 | 17 | under 20 | 6.9% | ordinary ×0.50 | 1048 d | | |
| Mystery | 14 | 6 | 13 | under 20 | 6.9% | ordinary ×0.70 | 1048 d | | |
| Historical | 5 | 2 | 4 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×1.17 | never | ||
| Science | 5 | 2 | 2 | under 20 | 5.3% | cliché ×2.52 | never | ||
| Romance | 6 | 1 | 8 | under 20 | 5.1% | ordinary ×0.47 | never | ||
| Sci-fi | 6 | 2 | 5 | under 20 | 5.1% | ordinary ×0.37 | never | ||
| Space | 6 | 3 | 2 | under 20 | 5.1% | ordinary ×0.47 | never | ||
| Modern | 7 | 3 | 9 | under 20 | 4.9% | cliché ×1.81 | never | ||
| Cats | 9 | 2 | 5 | under 20 | 4.6% | ordinary ×1.24 | never | ||
| Nature | 9 | 3 | 5 | under 20 | 4.6% | ordinary ×1.14 | never | ||
| Language Learning | 10 | 5 | 5 | under 20 | 4.4% | 36 ever | never |
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.
