Superhero games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Superhero on Steam: 616 released games, 140 in the last 12 months, 211 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 9. 50% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Superhero 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 included230 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsSuperhero × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Superhero at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Superhero × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open World | 15 | 4 | 33 | under 20 | 18.1% | cliché ×1.86 | 144 d |    | |
| Fighting | 6 | 2 | 4 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×7.28 | 166 d |    | |
| Beat 'em up | 24 | 7 | 11 | 25.0% 12%–45% | 16.7% | cliché ×7.32 | 316 d |  | |
| Third-Person Shooter | 7 | 0 | 192 | under 20 | 16.0% | cliché ×2.97 | 677 d |   | |
| Action | 128 | 34 | 10 | 14.8% 10%–22% | 13.7% | cliché ×1.70 | 144 d |  | |
| Exploration | 19 | 3 | 29 | under 20 | 13.7% | ordinary ×0.57 | 411 d |   | |
| Combat | 50 | 14 | 11 | 16.0% 8%–29% | 13.3% | cliché ×1.92 | 144 d | | |
| 2D Fighter | 13 | 3 | 11 | under 20 | 13.1% | cliché ×3.97 | 166 d | | |
| Character Action Game | 6 | 2 | 2 | under 20 | 12.8% | cliché ×7.43 | 411 d | | |
| Action-Adventure | 55 | 17 | 14 | 14.5% 8%–26% | 12.4% | cliché ×2.15 | 144 d | | |
| Adventure | 88 | 30 | 14 | 13.6% 8%–22% | 12.3% | ordinary ×1.26 | 144 d | | |
| Strategy | 34 | 10 | 12 | 14.7% 6%–30% | 11.7% | ordinary ×0.82 | 356 d |  | |
| Shooter | 26 | 4 | 11 | 15.4% 6%–34% | 11.6% | ordinary ×1.38 | 677 d |  | |
| Shoot 'Em Up | 9 | 3 | 2 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×1.31 | 809 d |  | |
| Action RPG | 18 | 2 | 11 | under 20 | 11.4% | cliché ×1.69 | 411 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.
