Trading games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Trading on Steam: 1,684 released games, 879 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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sports | 14 | 4 | 173 | under 20 | 21.6% | ordinary ×0.64 | 214 d |    | |
| Mining | 30 | 17 | 43 | 26.7% 14%–44% | 18.7% | cliché ×4.94 | 139 d |    | |
| Alternate History | 15 | 5 | 33 | under 20 | 18.1% | ordinary ×1.46 | 176 d |    | |
| Historical | 46 | 22 | 50 | 21.7% 12%–36% | 17.2% | cliché ×3.01 | 214 d | | |
| Animals | 6 | 1 | 159 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×1.77 | 845 d |    | |
| LGBTQ+ | 8 | 3 | 42 | under 20 | 15.5% | avoided ×0.30 | 404 d |  | |
| Job Simulator | 50 | 29 | 161 | 18.0% 10%–31% | 14.8% | cliché ×10.39 | 168 d |   | |
| War | 25 | 9 | 33 | 20.0% 9%–39% | 14.1% | ordinary ×1.18 | 281 d |   | |
| Shop Keeper | 103 | 77 | 56 | 14.6% 9%–23% | 13.3% | cliché ×16.77 | 168 d |    | |
| Female Protagonist | 14 | 6 | 8 | under 20 | 12.7% | avoided ×0.28 | 365 d |   | |
| Fishing | 22 | 7 | 42 | 18.2% 7%–39% | 12.7% | cliché ×4.04 | 357 d |  | |
| Modern | 38 | 11 | 43 | 15.8% 7%–30% | 12.6% | cliché ×2.52 | 361 d |   | |
| Capitalism | 198 | 90 | 42 | 13.1% 9%–19% | 12.5% | cliché ×14.21 | 176 d |    | |
| Farming | 8 | 2 | 63 | under 20 | 11.9% | cliché ×5.04 | 740 d |  | |
| Medieval | 68 | 33 | 43 | 13.2% 7%–23% | 11.7% | cliché ×2.58 | 174 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.
