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 × setting: what the pairings end up with
every setting 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleaning | 10 | 5 | 670 | under 20 | 24.4% | cliché ×16.34 | 113 d |    | |
| Decorating | 23 | 13 | 185 | 39.1% 22%–59% | 24.0% | cliché ×24.02 | 148 d |    | |
| Animals | 40 | 20 | 66 | 30.0% 18%–45% | 22.2% | cliché ×13.19 | 180 d |    | |
| Job Simulator | 45 | 24 | 100 | 24.4% 14%–39% | 19.0% | cliché ×9.64 | 113 d |    | |
| Shop Keeper | 31 | 20 | 100 | 25.8% 14%–43% | 18.3% | cliché ×6.09 | 148 d |  | |
| Trains | 7 | 2 | 33 | under 20 | 16.0% | cliché ×2.59 | 502 d |    | |
| Female Protagonist | 76 | 21 | 88 | 18.4% 11%–29% | 16.0% | ordinary ×1.16 | 145 d |    | |
| Romance | 33 | 8 | 51 | 21.2% 11%–38% | 15.7% | ordinary ×1.04 | 138 d |   | |
| Farming Sim | 36 | 15 | 185 | 19.4% 10%–35% | 14.9% | cliché ×4.47 | 138 d | | |
| Cats | 308 | 94 | 48 | 14.9% 11%–19% | 14.4% | cliché ×12.66 | 145 d |    | |
| Cooking | 31 | 17 | 66 | 19.4% 9%–36% | 14.4% | cliché ×4.26 | 189 d |  | |
| Sci-fi | 11 | 3 | 165 | under 20 | 14.0% | avoided ×0.23 | 145 d |    | |
| Music | 47 | 9 | 19 | 17.0% 9%–30% | 13.9% | cliché ×3.91 | 200 d |   | |
| Supernatural | 5 | 2 | 39 | under 20 | 13.3% | avoided ×0.33 | 790 d |   | |
| Capitalism | 14 | 7 | 26 | under 20 | 12.7% | cliché ×1.50 | 418 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.
