Top-Down games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Top-Down on Steam: 13,786 released games, 3,652 in the last 12 months, 8,998 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 × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dating Sim | 42 | 11 | 36 | 23.8% 13%–39% | 18.3% | avoided ×0.16 | 324 d |    | |
| Bullet Heaven | 206 | 110 | 35 | 18.9% 14%–25% | 17.8% | cliché ×4.71 | 104 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 34 | 8 | 6 | 20.6% 10%–37% | 15.4% | ordinary ×0.78 | 182 d |    | |
| MOBA | 52 | 14 | 15 | 17.3% 9%–30% | 14.3% | cliché ×1.85 | 216 d |   | |
| MMORPG | 40 | 10 | 86 | 17.5% 9%–32% | 13.9% | ordinary ×1.08 | 377 d |   | |
| Mining | 100 | 41 | 18 | 15.0% 9%–23% | 13.6% | cliché ×1.67 | 90 d |    | |
| Extraction Shooter | 20 | 8 | 82 | 20.0% 8%–42% | 13.3% | cliché ×1.90 | 377 d |   | |
| Open World Survival Craft | 21 | 9 | 50 | 19.0% 8%–40% | 13.0% | ordinary ×0.90 | 156 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 |   | |
| Real-Time with Pause | 26 | 8 | 32 | 15.4% 6%–34% | 11.6% | cliché ×2.00 | 91 d |    | |
| Open World | 363 | 115 | 13 | 11.3% 8%–15% | 11.1% | ordinary ×0.91 | 90 d |   | |
| Base Building | 494 | 177 | 13 | 10.5% 8%–14% | 10.4% | cliché ×2.10 | 92 d |  | |
| Shop Keeper | 34 | 25 | 8 | 11.8% 5%–27% | 9.9% | ordinary ×0.69 | 92 d |    | |
| Sandbox | 420 | 171 | 16 | 9.8% 7%–13% | 9.6% | ordinary ×1.08 | 90 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.
