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 × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinematic | 62 | 19 | 50 | 30.6% 21%–43% | 24.8% | ordinary ×1.23 | 168 d |    | |
| FMV | 13 | 2 | 381 | under 20 | 22.2% | ordinary ×0.70 | 168 d |    | |
| Realistic | 257 | 67 | 33 | 22.2% 18%–28% | 21.1% | cliché ×2.13 | 131 d |   | |
| Difficult | 31 | 11 | 60 | 29.0% 16%–47% | 20.3% | ordinary ×0.67 | 145 d |    | |
| Violent | 102 | 27 | 22 | 21.6% 15%–31% | 19.1% | cliché ×1.78 | 94 d |   | |
| Story Rich | 217 | 64 | 20 | 19.4% 15%–25% | 18.3% | ordinary ×0.81 | 145 d |   | |
| Isometric | 68 | 20 | 27 | 20.6% 13%–32% | 17.4% | cliché ×1.79 | 124 d |  | |
| Gore | 74 | 24 | 14 | 18.9% 12%–29% | 16.3% | cliché ×1.50 | 173 d |  | |
| First-Person | 272 | 78 | 21 | 16.9% 13%–22% | 16.2% | ordinary ×1.21 | 94 d |   | |
| Emotional | 41 | 11 | 46 | 19.5% 10%–34% | 15.3% | ordinary ×0.51 | 152 d |   | |
| Dark Comedy | 9 | 4 | 52 | under 20 | 14.9% | ordinary ×0.62 | 739 d |    | |
| Lore-Rich | 47 | 15 | 19 | 17.0% 9%–30% | 13.9% | ordinary ×0.95 | 161 d |    | |
| 3D | 644 | 171 | 14 | 13.4% 11%–16% | 13.2% | ordinary ×1.44 | 124 d | | |
| Third Person | 226 | 60 | 10 | 13.7% 10%–19% | 13.1% | ordinary ×1.49 | 131 d |  | |
| Atmospheric | 212 | 78 | 21 | 13.2% 9%–18% | 12.6% | ordinary ×0.72 | 95 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.
