Western games on Steam
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Western on Steam: 697 released games, 217 in the last 12 months, 295 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 9. 50% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Western 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 included289 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsWestern × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Western at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Western × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crafting | 18 | 4 | 296 | under 20 | 21.9% | ordinary ×1.43 | 182 d |    | |
| Stealth | 10 | 2 | 34 | under 20 | 14.4% | cliché ×1.62 | 665 d |    | |
| Simulation | 48 | 15 | 20 | 16.7% 9%–30% | 13.7% | ordinary ×0.77 | 182 d |  | |
| Economy | 12 | 5 | 58 | under 20 | 13.5% | cliché ×1.55 | 455 d |   | |
| Boomer Shooter | 13 | 3 | 11 | under 20 | 13.1% | cliché ×4.53 | 364 d |    | |
| Sandbox | 21 | 5 | 48 | 19.0% 8%–40% | 13.0% | ordinary ×1.31 | 384 d | | |
| Open World | 29 | 11 | 27 | 17.2% 8%–35% | 12.9% | cliché ×1.79 | 182 d |  | |
| Hunting | 6 | 4 | 15 | under 20 | 12.8% | cliché ×4.69 | 182 d | | |
| Nonlinear | 6 | 3 | 10 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×1.32 | 364 d |  | |
| Souls-like | 6 | 4 | 48 | under 20 | 12.8% | ordinary ×0.77 | 364 d | | |
| Life Sim | 14 | 3 | 58 | under 20 | 12.7% | ordinary ×0.96 | 455 d | | |
| Character Customization | 22 | 8 | 67 | 18.2% 7%–39% | 12.7% | ordinary ×1.25 | 384 d |   | |
| Survival | 31 | 11 | 8 | 16.1% 7%–33% | 12.4% | cliché ×1.69 | 168 d |  | |
| Base Building | 15 | 5 | 21 | under 20 | 12.4% | cliché ×1.60 | 384 d | | |
| Building | 15 | 5 | 58 | under 20 | 12.4% | ordinary ×1.34 | 182 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.
