Word Game games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Word Game on Steam: 2,018 released games, 771 in the last 12 months, 789 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 10. 50% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 12%. Word Game 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 included1,005 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsWord Game × presentation: what the pairings end up with
every presentation tag shipped with Word Game at least 5 times · same window× setting× presentation| Word Game × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FMV | 16 | 8 | 144 | under 20 | 17.6% | cliché ×1.65 | 150 d |    | |
| Violent | 13 | 9 | 48 | under 20 | 16.2% | avoided ×0.34 | 151 d |    | |
| Gore | 14 | 7 | 31 | under 20 | 15.7% | ordinary ×0.38 | 151 d | | |
| Satire | 14 | 2 | 12 | under 20 | 15.7% | cliché ×2.10 | 131 d |    | |
| Dark | 41 | 18 | 9 | 17.1% 9%–31% | 13.7% | ordinary ×0.58 | 305 d |    | |
| Psychedelic | 20 | 8 | 10 | 20.0% 8%–42% | 13.3% | ordinary ×0.99 | 194 d |    | |
| Cinematic | 36 | 15 | 11 | 16.7% 8%–32% | 13.1% | ordinary ×1.21 | 150 d | | |
| Realistic | 50 | 17 | 7 | 14.0% 7%–26% | 11.9% | ordinary ×0.48 | 150 d |  | |
| Memes | 25 | 9 | 26 | 16.0% 6%–35% | 11.9% | cliché ×1.60 | 170 d |   | |
| Psychological | 52 | 22 | 13 | 13.5% 7%–25% | 11.6% | cliché ×1.80 | 194 d |  | |
| Emotional | 141 | 59 | 35 | 12.1% 8%–18% | 11.4% | cliché ×3.27 | 150 d |   | |
| Story Rich | 306 | 106 | 27 | 11.4% 8%–15% | 11.1% | cliché ×2.18 | 150 d |  | |
| Third Person | 30 | 6 | 9 | 13.3% 5%–30% | 10.7% | ordinary ×0.36 | 328 d | | |
| Comedy | 77 | 35 | 28 | 11.7% 6%–21% | 10.7% | ordinary ×1.31 | 146 d |   | |
| Horror | 60 | 20 | 19 | 11.7% 6%–22% | 10.4% | ordinary ×0.61 | 351 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.
