Wholesome games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Wholesome on Steam: 1,920 released games, 1,074 in the last 12 months, 1,087 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 35. 24% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 8%. Wholesome 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 included906 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsWholesome × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Wholesome at least 5 times · same window× setting× mechanics| Wholesome × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organizing | 22 | 12 | 166 | 45.5% 27%–65% | 27.0% | cliché ×17.76 | 113 d |    | |
| Cleaning | 10 | 5 | 670 | under 20 | 24.4% | cliché ×16.35 | 113 d |    | |
| Decorating | 23 | 13 | 185 | 39.1% 22%–59% | 24.0% | cliché ×24.02 | 148 d |   | |
| Life Sim | 86 | 37 | 120 | 26.7% 19%–37% | 23.0% | cliché ×4.10 | 138 d |   | |
| Quick-Time Events | 8 | 3 | 68 | under 20 | 19.0% | ordinary ×1.27 | 346 d |  | |
| Job Simulator | 45 | 24 | 100 | 24.4% 14%–39% | 19.0% | cliché ×9.67 | 113 d |  | |
| Hobby Sim | 14 | 8 | 158 | under 20 | 18.6% | cliché ×23.60 | 346 d |   | |
| Shop Keeper | 31 | 20 | 100 | 25.8% 14%–43% | 18.3% | cliché ×6.10 | 148 d |  | |
| Sandbox | 77 | 29 | 95 | 20.8% 13%–31% | 17.9% | cliché ×1.88 | 172 d |    | |
| Character Customization | 66 | 26 | 87 | 21.2% 13%–33% | 17.8% | ordinary ×1.42 | 145 d | | |
| Simulation | 191 | 76 | 73 | 18.3% 13%–24% | 17.2% | cliché ×1.67 | 113 d | | |
| Immersive Sim | 48 | 25 | 44 | 20.8% 12%–34% | 16.7% | ordinary ×1.24 | 113 d | | |
| RPG | 55 | 15 | 116 | 20.0% 12%–32% | 16.4% | ordinary ×0.41 | 138 d |    | |
| Adventure | 221 | 58 | 83 | 17.2% 13%–23% | 16.3% | ordinary ×0.73 | 169 d | | |
| Trains | 7 | 2 | 33 | under 20 | 16.0% | cliché ×2.59 | 502 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.
