Traditional Roguelike games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Traditional Roguelike on Steam: 637 released games, 341 in the last 12 months, 358 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 4. 60% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 7%. Traditional Roguelike 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 included289 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsTraditional Roguelike × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Traditional Roguelike at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Traditional Roguelike × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Difficult | 23 | 10 | 19 | 13.0% 5%–32% | 10.1% | cliché ×1.95 | 483 d |    | |
| Story Rich | 14 | 5 | 23 | under 20 | 9.8% | avoided ×0.33 | 588 d |  | |
| Horror | 9 | 4 | 6 | under 20 | 8.0% | avoided ×0.33 | 372 d |  | |
| Dark | 22 | 11 | 4 | 9.1% 3%–28% | 7.9% | ordinary ×1.01 | 372 d | | |
| Isometric | 10 | 5 | 11 | under 20 | 7.8% | cliché ×1.76 | 483 d | | |
| Old School | 24 | 11 | 6 | 8.3% 2%–26% | 7.6% | cliché ×1.71 | 532 d |   | |
| Third Person | 11 | 5 | 2 | under 20 | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.51 | 671 d |  | |
| Retro | 45 | 21 | 3 | 6.7% 2%–18% | 6.7% | ordinary ×1.45 | 372 d |  | |
| 3D | 47 | 28 | 3 | 6.4% 2%–17% | 6.5% | ordinary ×0.59 | 372 d | | |
| Pixel Graphics | 110 | 51 | 6 | 6.4% 3%–13% | 6.4% | cliché ×2.43 | 91 d | | |
| Funny | 18 | 11 | 6 | under 20 | 6.1% | ordinary ×0.68 | 554 d |  | |
| Relaxing | 19 | 15 | 5 | under 20 | 6.0% | ordinary ×0.65 | 588 d | | |
| Cute | 36 | 18 | 4 | 5.6% 2%–18% | 6.0% | ordinary ×0.72 | 554 d | | |
| Atmospheric | 38 | 25 | 2 | 5.3% 1%–17% | 5.7% | ordinary ×0.64 | 372 d | | |
| Lore-Rich | 5 | 1 | 4 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×1.11 | never |
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.
