Scoring the market…
Where players are showing up and where games are piling in. Add your Steam tags to see how games like yours did in the last year.
Public Steam store data, weekly sweep of September 27, 2026 · 23,896 games released September 2, 2025 to September 2, 2026 · upcoming games from the snapshot of October 2, 2026 · not affiliated with Valve
Top opportunities
Every game in the cohort, 23,896 games · regular price
| Band | Share of games | Reached 500 reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 13% | 4.4% |
| Under $5 | 42% | 0.9% |
| $5–9.99 | 26% |
305 tags with 40+ games released in the last year
| Tag | Opportunity | Released, 12 mo |
|---|---|---|
| Gun Customization | 92 | 53 |
How this is scored. The cohort is every Steam game released one to thirteen months ago, so each has had at least a month on sale. A game counts as a hit at 500 Steam reviews; reviews stand in for sales, they are not sales. Demand ranks each tag's hit rate against every other tag, after steadying it as if the tag also had 50 average games, so a small tag's lucky streak doesn't outrank a large tag's real record; crowding ranks how many games carry it (released plus announced for the next 26 weeks), and opportunity is demand × (1 − crowding ÷ 100). Tags with fewer than 40 released games are not ranked.
Up: how often a tag's games reached 500 reviews, ranked. Right: how many games carry it, released and announced, ranked.
5.3%of 23,896 games released in the last year reached 500 reviews
Add your game's Steam tags to compare it with the games most like it.
| $10–14.99 | 10% | 8.6% |
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| $15–19.99Gap | 5% | 20.3% |
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| $20–29.99Gap | 2% | 32.1% |
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| $30 and upGap | 2% | 40.7% |
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A gap: under half the games of an average band, reaching 500 reviews at least 1.5 times as often as the group. Higher prices usually mean bigger games, so a gap shows where fewer games compete, not that a higher price earns more reviews.
| Fighting |
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| 87 |
| 44 |
| Co-op Campaign | 86 | 44 |
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| Martial Arts | 85 | 70 |
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| Open World Survival Craft | 84 | 67 |
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| Minigames | 82 | 51 |
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| Pirates | 82 | 43 |
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| Trains | 81 | 68 |
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| Dinosaurs | 81 | 56 |
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| Vehicular Combat | 78 | 67 |
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| FMV | 76 | 117 |
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| Mechs | 75 | 57 |
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| Violent | 74 | 86 |
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| Hunting | 74 | 44 |
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| Hero Shooter | 72 | 61 |
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| eSports | 71 | 116 |
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| Narrative | 70 | 70 |
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| Sailing | 70 | 46 |
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| MMORPG | 69 | 111 |
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| Replay Value | 69 | 100 |
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| Spectacle fighter | 67 | 83 |
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| Programming | 67 | 62 |
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| Bullet Time | 67 | 43 |
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| Faith | 67 | 43 |
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| Organizing | 65 | 57 |
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| Turn-Based | 64 | 106 |
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| Transportation | 63 | 44 |
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| Team-Based | 62 | 93 |
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| Competitive | 62 | 80 |
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| Agriculture | 62 | 64 |
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| Massively Multiplayer | 61 | 141 |
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| Escape Room | 61 | 59 |
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| Gore | 60 | 117 |
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| Music | 60 | 110 |
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| Job Simulator | 60 | 100 |
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| Football (Soccer) | 60 | 88 |
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| Alternate History | 60 | 69 |
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| Basketball | 60 | 40 |
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| Military | 59 | 137 |
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| Hacking | 59 | 69 |
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