Swordplay games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Swordplay on Steam: 1,411 released games, 395 in the last 12 months, 781 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 10. 48% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Swordplay 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 included586 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsSwordplay × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Swordplay at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Swordplay × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gore | 37 | 10 | 25 | 32.4% 20%–49% | 23.4% | cliché ×2.18 | 151 d |    | |
| Atmospheric | 85 | 29 | 38 | 23.5% 16%–34% | 20.3% | ordinary ×0.90 | 118 d |    | |
| Cinematic | 22 | 5 | 16 | 31.8% 16%–53% | 19.8% | ordinary ×1.42 | 188 d |   | |
| First-Person | 89 | 18 | 19 | 22.5% 15%–32% | 19.6% | ordinary ×1.05 | 151 d |  | |
| Realistic | 59 | 15 | 27 | 23.7% 15%–36% | 19.4% | ordinary ×1.45 | 118 d | | |
| Story Rich | 99 | 27 | 27 | 20.2% 13%–29% | 17.9% | ordinary ×1.10 | 152 d |   | |
| Violent | 55 | 15 | 20 | 21.8% 13%–34% | 17.8% | cliché ×2.42 | 151 d |  | |
| Difficult | 40 | 10 | 16 | 22.5% 12%–38% | 17.2% | cliché ×2.00 | 188 d |   | |
| Fast-Paced | 21 | 5 | 29 | 23.8% 11%–45% | 15.4% | cliché ×2.88 | 188 d |  | |
| Horror | 19 | 4 | 16 | under 20 | 13.7% | ordinary ×0.38 | 410 d |   | |
| Third Person | 146 | 39 | 12 | 14.4% 10%–21% | 13.5% | cliché ×2.96 | 152 d |  | |
| 3D | 214 | 58 | 12 | 14.0% 10%–19% | 13.4% | ordinary ×1.40 | 131 d | | |
| Dark | 35 | 7 | 5 | 17.1% 8%–33% | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.93 | 140 d |  | |
| Anime | 61 | 14 | 19 | 13.1% 7%–24% | 11.5% | ordinary ×1.01 | 152 d |   | |
| Lore-Rich | 36 | 12 | 12 | 13.9% 6%–29% | 11.3% | cliché ×2.43 | 238 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.
