Strategy games on Steam
Strategy on Steam: 33,264 released games, 10,991 in the last 12 months, 13,783 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 1. 54% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Strategy 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 included12,626 releasesp100
p250
median1
p7540
p90271
54% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $5.99 · 11% free-to-play
Releases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago — anything newer has not had time to gather reviews2019
1,478med 22 · 33% unseen
2020
1,843med 21 · 37% unseen
2021
2,029med 18 · 38% unseen
2022
2,241med 18 · 39% unseen
2023
2,678med 15 · 42% unseen
2024
3,694med 13 · 46% unseen
2025
4,451med 8 · 51% unseen
2026
6,558med 0 · 67% unseen · 2,963 too fresh