Tactical RPG games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Tactical RPG on Steam: 2,944 released games, 999 in the last 12 months, 1,633 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 13. 46% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 13%. Tactical RPG 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 included1,230 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsTactical RPG × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Tactical RPG at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Tactical RPG × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isometric | 115 | 31 | 48 | 21.7% 15%–30% | 19.5% | cliché ×4.01 | 138 d |    | |
| Cinematic | 24 | 5 | 49 | 25.0% 12%–45% | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.74 | 188 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 273 | 79 | 32 | 16.5% 13%–21% | 15.8% | cliché ×1.57 | 138 d |  | |
| Lore-Rich | 86 | 22 | 26 | 17.4% 11%–27% | 15.4% | cliché ×2.94 | 161 d |  | |
| Atmospheric | 151 | 48 | 17 | 14.6% 10%–21% | 13.6% | ordinary ×0.63 | 166 d | | |
| Anime | 198 | 57 | 25 | 13.1% 9%–19% | 12.5% | cliché ×1.55 | 138 d |  | |
| Funny | 87 | 22 | 12 | 13.8% 8%–23% | 12.5% | ordinary ×0.60 | 173 d | | |
| Difficult | 47 | 17 | 43 | 14.9% 7%–28% | 12.4% | ordinary ×0.85 | 145 d |   | |
| Narrative | 7 | 4 | 247 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×0.41 | 173 d |  | |
| Emotional | 40 | 10 | 14 | 15.0% 7%–29% | 12.2% | ordinary ×0.66 | 263 d |   | |
| Violent | 28 | 11 | 5 | 14.3% 6%–31% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.70 | 251 d |    | |
| Dialogue Heavy | 33 | 15 | 13 | 12.1% 5%–27% | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.94 | 166 d |    | |
| 3D | 325 | 82 | 13 | 10.2% 7%–14% | 10.0% | ordinary ×1.04 | 153 d |   | |
| Retro | 119 | 39 | 20 | 10.1% 6%–17% | 9.6% | ordinary ×0.99 | 153 d |  | |
| Side Scroller | 26 | 9 | 16 | 11.5% 4%–29% | 9.4% | avoided ×0.33 | 256 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.
