Superhero games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Superhero on Steam: 620 released games, 142 in the last 12 months, 211 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 9. 51% 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 included233 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsSuperhero × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atmospheric | 18 | 5 | 27 | under 20 | 19.3% | ordinary ×0.46 | 144 d |    | |
| Third Person | 42 | 9 | 11 | 23.8% 13%–39% | 18.3% | cliché ×2.40 | 144 d |   | |
| Comic Book | 48 | 14 | 29 | 22.9% 13%–37% | 18.1% | cliché ×13.09 | 144 d | | |
| Violent | 11 | 1 | 17 | under 20 | 14.0% | ordinary ×1.35 | 559 d |   | |
| Story Rich | 56 | 25 | 16 | 16.1% 9%–28% | 13.6% | ordinary ×1.48 | 144 d | | |
| Gore | 9 | 2 | 35 | under 20 | 11.5% | ordinary ×1.04 | 166 d |  | |
| Memes | 9 | 0 | 42 | under 20 | 11.5% | cliché ×3.08 | 390 d |   | |
| Parody | 12 | 3 | 20 | under 20 | 10.4% | cliché ×5.31 | 144 d | | |
| Lore-Rich | 13 | 4 | 12 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×1.29 | 784 d |  | |
| Retro | 25 | 6 | 11 | 12.0% 4%–30% | 9.6% | ordinary ×1.22 | 316 d |    | |
| Dynamic Narration | 5 | 2 | 29 | under 20 | 9.3% | cliché ×1.72 | 1064 d | | |
| 3D | 59 | 16 | 11 | 10.2% 5%–20% | 9.3% | ordinary ×1.01 | 166 d |  | |
| Family Friendly | 16 | 4 | 9 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×1.17 | 144 d | | |
| Anime | 60 | 17 | 12 | 10.0% 5%–20% | 9.2% | cliché ×1.84 | 166 d |  | |
| Funny | 54 | 14 | 14 | 9.3% 4%–20% | 8.6% | cliché ×2.04 | 144 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.
