The niche at a glance

Wrestling on Steam: 188 released games, 46 in the last 12 months, 75 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 11. 49% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 9%. Wrestling 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 included70 releases
p100
p252
median11
p7568
p90202
49% of them never reached 10 reviewsMedian price $8.99 · 9% free-to-play

Releases per year

outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviews
2019
8med 156 · 13% unseen
2020
12med 48 · 25% unseen
2021
13med 39 · 15% unseen
2022
18med 12 · 50% unseen
2023
26med 60 · 23% unseen
2024
22med 11 · 50% unseen
2025
25med 11 · 44% unseen
2026
33med 3 · 65% unseen · 16 too fresh

Wrestling × presentation: what the pairings end up with

every presentation tag shipped with Wrestling at least 5 times · same window
share reaching 500 reviews, shrunk towards the catalogue · click a row to open the concept
Wrestling ×3 y12 mmedian≥500adjusted vs chancelast hitwho made it
Dark Humor6168under 209.0%
cliché ×2.45764 d
Hard Time III
Hard Time III
3D325119.4% 3%–24%8.3%
cliché ×1.53579 d
WWE 2K24
WWE 2K25
Hard Time III
WWE 2K24 · WWE 2K25 · Hard Time III
Third Person11211under 207.5%
ordinary ×1.40764 d
Hard Time III
Hard Time III
Anime1318under 207.1%
ordinary ×1.21624 d
 Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage
Virtua Fighter 5 R.E.V.O. World Stage
Cartoony16414under 206.5%
cliché ×2.53764 d
Hard Time III
Hard Time III
2.5D505under 205.3%
cliché ×2.34never
Family Friendly516under 205.3%
ordinary ×0.82never
Cartoon709under 204.9%
cliché ×1.68never
Text-Based736under 204.9%
cliché ×3.01never
Pixel Graphics814under 204.8%
ordinary ×0.64never
Hand-drawn9012under 204.6%
ordinary ×1.22never
Comic Book1038under 204.4%
cliché ×4.26never
Comedy12211under 204.2%
cliché ×2.33never
Cute1212under 204.2%
ordinary ×0.82never
Stylized12413under 204.2%
cliché ×1.57never
2 pairings cleared 20 releases; 52 more never reached 5 and are not listed. Compared against 6.7% for games that carry any tags at all.

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.