Tower Defense games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Tower Defense on Steam: 4,024 released games, 1,496 in the last 12 months, 1,965 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 6. 56% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Tower Defense 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 included1,726 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsTower Defense × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting tag shipped with Tower Defense at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Tower Defense × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Psychological Horror | 15 | 5 | 19 | under 20 | 15.2% | avoided ×0.10 | 343 d |    | |
| Survival Horror | 26 | 6 | 10 | 19.2% 9%–38% | 13.8% | avoided ×0.29 | 187 d |   | |
| Steampunk | 13 | 2 | 39 | under 20 | 10.1% | cliché ×2.33 | 551 d |   | |
| Zombies | 126 | 36 | 11 | 10.3% 6%–17% | 9.8% | cliché ×2.79 | 123 d |   | |
| Mining | 36 | 18 | 15 | 11.1% 4%–25% | 9.5% | cliché ×2.45 | 189 d |    | |
| War | 165 | 49 | 6 | 9.7% 6%–15% | 9.4% | cliché ×3.83 | 331 d |   | |
| Historical | 48 | 11 | 15 | 10.4% 5%–22% | 9.3% | ordinary ×1.04 | 455 d |  | |
| Horror | 48 | 14 | 11 | 10.4% 5%–22% | 9.3% | avoided ×0.25 | 187 d |  | |
| Artificial Intelligence | 27 | 9 | 16 | 11.1% 4%–28% | 9.2% | ordinary ×0.78 | 162 d |    | |
| Medieval | 271 | 87 | 11 | 9.2% 6%–13% | 9.0% | cliché ×3.18 | 196 d |  | |
| Post-apocalyptic | 117 | 44 | 11 | 9.4% 5%–16% | 9.0% | cliché ×1.98 | 162 d |   | |
| LGBTQ+ | 6 | 2 | 13 | under 20 | 9.0% | avoided ×0.13 | 809 d |  | |
| Romance | 6 | 2 | 13 | under 20 | 9.0% | avoided ×0.08 | 950 d |  | |
| World War I | 8 | 4 | 7 | under 20 | 8.3% | cliché ×2.81 | 533 d |  | |
| Military | 108 | 38 | 4 | 8.3% 4%–15% | 8.1% | cliché ×3.03 | 342 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.
