Sports games on Steam
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Sports on Steam: 6,605 released games, 1,586 in the last 12 months, 1,659 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 10. 48% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Sports 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 included2,243 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsSports × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Sports at least 5 times · same window| Sports × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nostalgia | 14 | 2 | 2 | under 20 | 15.7% | cliché ×1.84 | 545 d |    | |
| Horror | 29 | 10 | 23 | 20.7% 10%–38% | 15.0% | avoided ×0.14 | 313 d |    | |
| Realistic | 388 | 132 | 18 | 13.9% 11%–18% | 13.6% | cliché ×1.87 | 96 d |    | |
| Music | 27 | 9 | 14 | 18.5% 8%–37% | 13.5% | ordinary ×1.28 | 377 d |    | |
| Parody | 5 | 2 | 79 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.57 | 545 d | | |
| Voxel | 13 | 1 | 21 | under 20 | 13.1% | ordinary ×0.84 | 873 d |    | |
| Gore | 7 | 3 | 141 | under 20 | 12.3% | avoided ×0.28 | 313 d |   | |
| Cinematic | 54 | 16 | 12 | 13.0% 6%–24% | 11.3% | ordinary ×0.73 | 96 d |   | |
| Third Person | 454 | 152 | 12 | 10.4% 8%–13% | 10.2% | cliché ×1.80 | 123 d |   | |
| Cozy | 13 | 5 | 138 | under 20 | 10.1% | avoided ×0.33 | 484 d |   | |
| Story Rich | 132 | 56 | 22 | 10.6% 6%–17% | 10.1% | avoided ×0.27 | 257 d |   | |
| Memes | 23 | 6 | 17 | 13.0% 5%–32% | 10.1% | ordinary ×1.15 | 379 d |   | |
| Wholesome | 5 | 1 | 51 | under 20 | 9.3% | avoided ×0.24 | 1078 d |  | |
| Difficult | 72 | 20 | 8 | 9.7% 5%–19% | 9.1% | ordinary ×0.81 | 257 d |   | |
| Psychedelic | 17 | 6 | 12 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.46 | 309 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.
