Steampunk games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Steampunk on Steam: 899 released games, 258 in the last 12 months, 475 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 46% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Steampunk 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 included304 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsSteampunk × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Steampunk at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Steampunk × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Character Customization | 27 | 10 | 53 | 29.6% 16%–48% | 19.9% | ordinary ×1.42 | 173 d |    | |
| Action RPG | 23 | 7 | 38 | 26.1% 13%–46% | 17.1% | cliché ×1.82 | 173 d |   | |
| CRPG | 6 | 3 | 174 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×1.75 | 686 d |   | |
| Mining | 6 | 1 | 440 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×2.57 | 718 d |  | |
| Open World | 18 | 7 | 11 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×1.55 | 718 d |   | |
| City Builder | 13 | 4 | 33 | under 20 | 16.2% | cliché ×1.86 | 753 d |   | |
| Sandbox | 20 | 6 | 45 | 25.0% 11%–47% | 15.8% | ordinary ×1.31 | 718 d | | |
| Loot | 9 | 5 | 37 | under 20 | 14.9% | cliché ×1.64 | 146 d |  | |
| RPG | 65 | 17 | 31 | 16.9% 10%–28% | 14.5% | ordinary ×1.48 | 173 d |   | |
| Economy | 10 | 3 | 184 | under 20 | 14.4% | ordinary ×1.06 | 887 d |  | |
| Dungeon Crawler | 11 | 2 | 19 | under 20 | 14.0% | ordinary ×1.49 | 186 d | | |
| Procedural Generation | 26 | 5 | 10 | 19.2% 9%–38% | 13.8% | cliché ×1.85 | 718 d | | |
| Inventory Management | 5 | 4 | 15 | under 20 | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.93 | 186 d |  | |
| Crafting | 21 | 9 | 33 | 19.0% 8%–40% | 13.0% | cliché ×1.82 | 186 d |  | |
| Bullet Heaven | 6 | 2 | 103 | under 20 | 12.8% | cliché ×1.95 | 904 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.
