Tower Defense games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Tower Defense on Steam: 4,025 released games, 1,497 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 included1,724 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsTower Defense × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anime | 79 | 22 | 19 | 13.9% 8%–23% | 12.5% | ordinary ×0.45 | 151 d |    | |
| Difficult | 79 | 25 | 25 | 13.9% 8%–23% | 12.5% | ordinary ×1.17 | 187 d |    | |
| Voxel | 33 | 12 | 27 | 15.2% 7%–31% | 11.9% | cliché ×2.75 | 189 d |    | |
| Isometric | 127 | 45 | 13 | 11.8% 7%–19% | 11.1% | cliché ×2.87 | 151 d |   | |
| Short | 13 | 7 | 29 | under 20 | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.53 | 197 d |   | |
| Horror | 48 | 14 | 11 | 10.4% 5%–22% | 9.3% | avoided ×0.25 | 187 d |   | |
| Funny | 172 | 53 | 11 | 9.3% 6%–15% | 9.0% | ordinary ×0.91 | 162 d |   | |
| Dark Humor | 31 | 10 | 14 | 9.7% 3%–25% | 8.5% | ordinary ×0.75 | 151 d |    | |
| Cute | 277 | 93 | 12 | 8.3% 6%–12% | 8.2% | ordinary ×0.96 | 151 d |   | |
| Atmospheric | 155 | 56 | 11 | 8.4% 5%–14% | 8.2% | ordinary ×0.53 | 187 d |  | |
| Comedy | 90 | 30 | 7 | 7.8% 4%–15% | 7.6% | ordinary ×0.74 | 173 d |  | |
| Dark Comedy | 11 | 4 | 14 | under 20 | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.60 | 764 d | | |
| Third Person | 121 | 33 | 8 | 7.4% 4%–14% | 7.3% | ordinary ×0.79 | 123 d |    | |
| Colorful | 367 | 124 | 8 | 7.4% 5%–10% | 7.3% | ordinary ×1.18 | 113 d | | |
| Cozy | 12 | 6 | 20 | under 20 | 7.3% | ordinary ×0.37 | 257 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.
