Top-Down games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Top-Down on Steam: 13,785 released games, 3,651 in the last 12 months, 8,995 announced and still unreleased. Of the 6,892 released between three years and 90 days ago, the median has 7 lifetime reviews. 55% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Top-Down 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 included6,892 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsTop-Down × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Top-Down at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Top-Down × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wuxia | 5 | 5 | 1,102 | under 20 | 21.3% | ordinary ×0.86 | 97 d |    | |
| Dating Sim | 42 | 11 | 36 | 23.8% 13%–39% | 18.3% | avoided ×0.16 | 324 d |    | |
| Villain Protagonist | 12 | 2 | 31 | under 20 | 16.6% | ordinary ×1.43 | 425 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 34 | 8 | 6 | 20.6% 10%–37% | 15.4% | ordinary ×0.78 | 182 d |   | |
| Mining | 100 | 41 | 18 | 15.0% 9%–23% | 13.6% | cliché ×1.68 | 90 d |    | |
| Trains | 39 | 18 | 31 | 15.4% 7%–30% | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.43 | 139 d |    | |
| Decorating | 8 | 7 | 12 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.74 | 90 d |   | |
| World War II | 55 | 16 | 12 | 12.7% 6%–24% | 11.1% | ordinary ×1.20 | 91 d |    | |
| Romance | 75 | 23 | 26 | 12.0% 6%–21% | 10.9% | avoided ×0.25 | 324 d |   | |
| World War I | 21 | 5 | 4 | 14.3% 5%–35% | 10.6% | ordinary ×1.26 | 421 d |    | |
| Vampires | 78 | 22 | 16 | 11.5% 6%–20% | 10.5% | ordinary ×1.29 | 328 d |    | |
| Shop Keeper | 34 | 25 | 8 | 11.8% 5%–27% | 9.9% | ordinary ×0.69 | 92 d |    | |
| Rome | 14 | 7 | 15 | under 20 | 9.8% | ordinary ×1.25 | 407 d |   | |
| Heist | 25 | 7 | 11 | 12.0% 4%–30% | 9.6% | ordinary ×1.20 | 265 d |    | |
| Alternate History | 110 | 35 | 10 | 10.0% 6%–17% | 9.5% | ordinary ×1.24 | 285 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.
