Underwater games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Underwater on Steam: 1,038 released games, 386 in the last 12 months, 544 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 10. 49% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 10%. Underwater 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 included467 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsUnderwater × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Underwater at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Underwater × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandbox | 53 | 19 | 25 | 22.6% 13%–36% | 18.3% | cliché ×1.97 | 152 d |    | |
| Base Building | 23 | 9 | 158 | 26.1% 13%–46% | 17.1% | cliché ×1.74 | 152 d |  | |
| Open World Survival Craft | 12 | 3 | 280 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×5.21 | 210 d |  | |
| Economy | 26 | 15 | 48 | 23.1% 11%–42% | 15.9% | ordinary ×1.42 | 138 d |    | |
| Escape Room | 8 | 1 | 29 | under 20 | 15.5% | cliché ×1.81 | 628 d |    | |
| Building | 34 | 12 | 29 | 20.6% 10%–37% | 15.4% | cliché ×1.55 | 210 d |  | |
| Management | 35 | 17 | 32 | 20.0% 10%–36% | 15.2% | ordinary ×1.33 | 138 d |  | |
| Souls-like | 9 | 1 | 36 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×0.92 | 593 d |   | |
| Action RPG | 16 | 3 | 23 | under 20 | 14.8% | ordinary ×0.67 | 593 d | | |
| Open World | 60 | 21 | 30 | 16.7% 9%–28% | 14.2% | cliché ×2.22 | 96 d |  | |
| Nonlinear | 19 | 6 | 15 | under 20 | 13.7% | cliché ×1.83 | 628 d | | |
| Crafting | 27 | 7 | 95 | 18.5% 8%–37% | 13.5% | cliché ×1.53 | 210 d | | |
| Fishing | 72 | 32 | 15 | 15.3% 9%–25% | 13.4% | cliché ×20.00 | 138 d |  | |
| Dating Sim | 5 | 3 | 72 | under 20 | 13.3% | avoided ×0.18 | 593 d |  | |
| Farming Sim | 20 | 4 | 46 | 20.0% 8%–42% | 13.3% | cliché ×2.33 | 477 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.
