Xianxia games on Steam
The niche at a glance
Xianxia on Steam: 185 released games, 142 in the last 12 months, 162 announced and still unreleased. Median lifetime reviews: 68. 26% of them never reached 10 reviews. Free to play: 11%. Xianxia 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 included58 releasesReleases per year
outcomes count only games released more than 90 days ago, anything newer has not had time to gather reviewsXianxia × mechanics: what the pairings end up with
every mechanics tag shipped with Xianxia at least 5 times · same window× mechanics× presentation| Xianxia × | 3 y | 12 m | median | ≥500 | adjusted | vs chance | last hit | who made it | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martial Arts | 16 | 10 | 340 | under 20 | 23.1% | cliché ×32.06 | 119 d |    | |
| Sandbox | 9 | 7 | 725 | under 20 | 21.8% | cliché ×2.66 | 98 d |  | |
| Open World | 10 | 8 | 470 | under 20 | 21.1% | cliché ×2.51 | 98 d |  | |
| Turn-Based Tactics | 11 | 7 | 386 | under 20 | 20.4% | cliché ×2.69 | 98 d |  | |
| Simulation | 15 | 13 | 87 | under 20 | 18.1% | ordinary ×1.45 | 98 d |  | |
| RPG | 32 | 23 | 87 | 25.0% 13%–42% | 17.9% | cliché ×3.97 | 98 d |  | |
| Multiple Endings | 10 | 9 | 76 | under 20 | 17.8% | cliché ×2.04 | 98 d |  | |
| Turn-Based Strategy | 10 | 5 | 74 | under 20 | 17.8% | cliché ×3.04 | 98 d | | |
| Roguelite | 16 | 13 | 48 | under 20 | 17.6% | cliché ×2.92 | 98 d | | |
| Turn-Based Combat | 18 | 13 | 62 | under 20 | 16.7% | cliché ×5.03 | 98 d | | |
| Strategy | 25 | 17 | 52 | 24.0% 11%–43% | 16.3% | cliché ×1.87 | 119 d | | |
| Adventure | 13 | 9 | 127 | under 20 | 16.2% | ordinary ×1.13 | 98 d | | |
| Exploration | 13 | 10 | 127 | under 20 | 16.2% | cliché ×1.57 | 98 d | | |
| Building | 7 | 5 | 340 | under 20 | 16.0% | ordinary ×1.23 | 119 d | | |
| Strategy RPG | 14 | 9 | 121 | under 20 | 15.7% | cliché ×8.59 | 98 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.
