Traditional Roguelike games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Traditional Roguelike on Steam: 635 released games, 340 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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Underground | 10 | 6 | 15 | under 20 | 11.1% | cliché ×3.33 | 91 d |   | |
| Female Protagonist | 14 | 6 | 14 | under 20 | 9.8% | ordinary ×0.62 | 372 d |   | |
| Artificial Intelligence | 5 | 5 | 5 | under 20 | 9.3% | ordinary ×0.65 | 91 d | | |
| Survival Horror | 5 | 2 | 32 | under 20 | 9.3% | avoided ×0.34 | 372 d | | |
| 1990's | 17 | 10 | 6 | under 20 | 9.0% | ordinary ×1.21 | 372 d |  | |
| Horror | 9 | 4 | 6 | under 20 | 8.0% | avoided ×0.33 | 372 d | | |
| Dark Fantasy | 36 | 19 | 9 | 8.3% 3%–22% | 7.7% | cliché ×3.38 | 483 d |   | |
| Sci-fi | 24 | 10 | 4 | 8.3% 2%–26% | 7.6% | ordinary ×0.84 | 532 d |   | |
| Space | 11 | 3 | 2 | under 20 | 7.5% | ordinary ×0.72 | 532 d | | |
| Zombies | 13 | 4 | 4 | under 20 | 7.1% | ordinary ×1.26 | 372 d | | |
| Magic | 35 | 19 | 14 | 5.7% 2%–19% | 6.1% | cliché ×2.55 | 91 d | | |
| Alternate History | 5 | 3 | 3 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×0.96 | never | ||
| War | 5 | 4 | 14 | under 20 | 5.3% | ordinary ×0.51 | never | ||
| Fantasy | 100 | 50 | 9 | 5.0% 2%–11% | 5.3% | cliché ×2.46 | 91 d | | |
| Aliens | 6 | 2 | 9 | under 20 | 5.1% | ordinary ×0.95 | 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.
