Trading games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Trading on Steam: 1,682 released games, 877 in the last 12 months, 1,156 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 27. 36% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 16%. Trading 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 included729 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsTrading × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Trading at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Trading × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinematic | 9 | 3 | 1,065 | under 20 | 21.8% | ordinary ×0.48 | 343 d |    | |
| Realistic | 147 | 49 | 93 | 22.4% 16%–30% | 20.6% | cliché ×2.04 | 133 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 46 | 20 | 50 | 21.7% 12%–36% | 17.2% | ordinary ×0.55 | 168 d |    | |
| Family Friendly | 85 | 29 | 48 | 18.8% 12%–28% | 16.5% | ordinary ×0.99 | 214 d |  | |
| Isometric | 25 | 16 | 65 | 24.0% 11%–43% | 16.3% | cliché ×1.79 | 186 d |   | |
| Atmospheric | 82 | 35 | 43 | 18.3% 11%–28% | 16.0% | ordinary ×0.80 | 168 d |    | |
| 3D | 286 | 105 | 45 | 15.7% 12%–20% | 15.1% | ordinary ×1.43 | 90 d |  | |
| First-Person | 211 | 77 | 57 | 15.6% 11%–21% | 14.9% | cliché ×1.63 | 133 d | | |
| Third Person | 53 | 18 | 24 | 17.0% 9%–29% | 14.2% | ordinary ×0.88 | 90 d |  | |
| Stylized | 73 | 29 | 26 | 15.1% 9%–25% | 13.3% | ordinary ×1.11 | 181 d |  | |
| Relaxing | 203 | 92 | 51 | 12.8% 9%–18% | 12.3% | cliché ×1.93 | 133 d | | |
| Comedy | 32 | 14 | 32 | 15.6% 7%–32% | 12.2% | ordinary ×0.67 | 243 d |    | |
| Hand-drawn | 24 | 13 | 59 | 16.7% 7%–36% | 12.1% | ordinary ×0.73 | 432 d |  | |
| Colorful | 122 | 49 | 32 | 10.7% 6%–17% | 10.1% | ordinary ×0.91 | 168 d |  | |
| Cozy | 33 | 19 | 84 | 12.1% 5%–27% | 10.1% | cliché ×2.32 | 168 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.
