Wargame games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Wargame on Steam: 2,815 released games, 844 in the last 12 months, 1,240 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 10. 50% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 13%. Wargame 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 included1,110 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsWargame × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Wargame at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Wargame × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cinematic | 35 | 11 | 21 | 25.7% 14%–42% | 18.8% | ordinary ×1.09 | 147 d |    | |
| Realistic | 157 | 41 | 25 | 17.8% 13%–25% | 16.6% | cliché ×2.10 | 147 d |   | |
| FMV | 7 | 1 | 137 | under 20 | 16.0% | ordinary ×0.71 | 211 d |   | |
| Emotional | 8 | 3 | 20 | under 20 | 15.5% | avoided ×0.20 | 147 d |    | |
| Difficult | 15 | 9 | 55 | under 20 | 15.2% | ordinary ×0.45 | 481 d |   | |
| Horror | 25 | 3 | 25 | 20.0% 9%–39% | 14.1% | avoided ×0.16 | 739 d |  | |
| Story Rich | 86 | 23 | 10 | 15.1% 9%–24% | 13.5% | ordinary ×0.50 | 147 d |   | |
| First-Person | 114 | 34 | 13 | 14.0% 9%–22% | 12.9% | ordinary ×0.82 | 147 d |   | |
| Lore-Rich | 25 | 4 | 36 | 16.0% 6%–35% | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.74 | 740 d |  | |
| 3D | 433 | 111 | 10 | 11.5% 9%–15% | 11.3% | ordinary ×1.49 | 124 d | | |
| Isometric | 64 | 13 | 27 | 12.5% 6%–23% | 11.1% | cliché ×2.12 | 124 d |  | |
| Gore | 11 | 2 | 18 | under 20 | 10.8% | ordinary ×0.62 | 173 d |  | |
| Dark | 24 | 10 | 29 | 12.5% 4%–31% | 9.8% | avoided ×0.32 | 147 d |  | |
| Anime | 47 | 9 | 17 | 10.6% 5%–23% | 9.5% | ordinary ×0.40 | 152 d |    | |
| Atmospheric | 105 | 35 | 13 | 9.5% 5%–17% | 9.1% | ordinary ×0.52 | 147 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.
