The niche at a glance
War on Steam: 4,553 released games, 1,298 in the last 12 months, 2,005 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 47% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 13%. War 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 included1,648 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsWar × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with War at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| War × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open World | 100 | 28 | 30 | 29.0% 21%–39% | 25.3% | ordinary ×1.24 | 168 d |    | |
| Turn-Based | 41 | 16 | 123 | 34.1% 22%–49% | 25.1% | cliché ×2.74 | 145 d |    | |
| Sandbox | 134 | 43 | 61 | 27.6% 21%–36% | 24.9% | cliché ×1.56 | 166 d |  | |
| Extraction Shooter | 6 | 2 | 3,570 | under 20 | 24.4% | cliché ×2.24 | 219 d |   | |
| Colony Sim | 31 | 10 | 121 | 32.3% 19%–50% | 22.2% | cliché ×1.90 | 251 d |    | |
| Stealth | 58 | 13 | 34 | 27.6% 18%–40% | 22.2% | ordinary ×1.49 | 95 d |    | |
| Real-Time with Pause | 16 | 3 | 90 | under 20 | 20.4% | cliché ×6.76 | 281 d |  | |
| Class-Based | 27 | 7 | 35 | 29.6% 16%–48% | 19.9% | cliché ×1.87 | 173 d |    | |
| Martial Arts | 20 | 9 | 100 | 30.0% 15%–52% | 18.3% | ordinary ×1.13 | 215 d |   | |
| 4X | 80 | 31 | 27 | 21.3% 14%–31% | 18.3% | cliché ×11.51 | 166 d |   | |
| Hack and Slash | 55 | 17 | 16 | 21.8% 13%–34% | 17.8% | ordinary ×0.97 | 168 d |  | |
| City Builder | 67 | 17 | 41 | 20.9% 13%–32% | 17.6% | cliché ×2.50 | 251 d |  | |
| Inventory Management | 36 | 15 | 31 | 22.2% 12%–38% | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.83 | 196 d |    | |
| Management | 175 | 61 | 27 | 17.7% 13%–24% | 16.6% | cliché ×1.67 | 124 d | | |
| CRPG | 19 | 5 | 46 | under 20 | 16.2% | ordinary ×0.99 | 194 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.
