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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martial Arts | 9 | 4 | 10 | under 20 | 18.4% | ordinary ×0.81 | 219 d |    | |
| World War II | 88 | 16 | 25 | 20.5% 13%–30% | 17.9% | cliché ×20.36 | 173 d |    | |
| Dystopian | 6 | 0 | 113 | under 20 | 16.7% | ordinary ×0.74 | 582 d |    | |
| Historical | 255 | 81 | 26 | 15.7% 12%–21% | 15.0% | cliché ×9.51 | 124 d |   | |
| Alternate History | 96 | 32 | 25 | 16.7% 11%–25% | 14.9% | cliché ×6.75 | 173 d |  | |
| Mythology | 16 | 5 | 3 | under 20 | 14.8% | ordinary ×0.84 | 124 d |   | |
| Horror | 25 | 3 | 25 | 20.0% 9%–39% | 14.1% | avoided ×0.16 | 739 d |  | |
| Tanks | 90 | 24 | 14 | 15.6% 9%–24% | 13.9% | cliché ×18.67 | 173 d |  | |
| Modern | 40 | 13 | 33 | 17.5% 9%–32% | 13.9% | cliché ×2.34 | 196 d |   | |
| World War I | 26 | 7 | 13 | 19.2% 9%–38% | 13.8% | cliché ×19.96 | 181 d |   | |
| Cold War | 43 | 14 | 31 | 16.3% 8%–30% | 13.2% | cliché ×14.49 | 173 d |   | |
| Heist | 7 | 1 | 127 | under 20 | 12.3% | ordinary ×1.32 | 390 d |   | |
| Conspiracy | 8 | 0 | 6 | under 20 | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.85 | 964 d | | |
| Artificial Intelligence | 43 | 7 | 11 | 14.0% 7%–27% | 11.6% | cliché ×2.11 | 307 d |   | |
| War | 562 | 172 | 14 | 11.0% 9%–14% | 10.9% | cliché ×20.11 | 124 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.
