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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Historical | 53 | 12 | 39 | 26.4% 16%–40% | 21.0% | cliché ×3.96 | 215 d |    | |
| Wuxia | 6 | 3 | 587 | under 20 | 20.5% | cliché ×13.67 | 152 d |    | |
| Psychological Horror | 6 | 0 | 42 | under 20 | 16.7% | avoided ×0.17 | 518 d |    | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 15 | 7 | 15 | under 20 | 15.2% | ordinary ×1.15 | 210 d |    | |
| Dark Fantasy | 94 | 32 | 17 | 17.0% 11%–26% | 15.2% | cliché ×4.02 | 151 d |   | |
| Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 2 | 1 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×0.69 | 188 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 9 | 1 | 65 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×0.59 | 427 d |  | |
| Ninja | 56 | 14 | 14 | 17.9% 10%–30% | 14.9% | cliché ×17.90 | 349 d |  | |
| Horror | 19 | 4 | 16 | under 20 | 13.7% | ordinary ×0.38 | 410 d | | |
| Mythology | 41 | 13 | 12 | 17.1% 9%–31% | 13.7% | cliché ×3.98 | 140 d |   | |
| Samurai | 5 | 2 | 297 | under 20 | 13.3% | cliché ×35.31 | 573 d |  | |
| Female Protagonist | 54 | 15 | 44 | 14.8% 8%–27% | 12.6% | ordinary ×1.17 | 214 d |  | |
| Medieval | 167 | 48 | 14 | 13.2% 9%–19% | 12.5% | cliché ×6.48 | 118 d |  | |
| Sci-fi | 41 | 15 | 7 | 14.6% 7%–28% | 12.0% | ordinary ×0.79 | 188 d |  | |
| War | 33 | 7 | 10 | 15.2% 7%–31% | 11.9% | cliché ×2.20 | 386 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.
