Niche hub
359 games carry the tag · 38 released in the last 12 months (vs 174 the year before) · median price $13.99
crowded. Crowded space: 38 releases in the last year, and the median game here reaches an estimated 10,461 units (middle half 4,125–31,680). Standing out is a visibility problem before a quality one — the adjacent combos show where supply thins out.
What would change this: About 37% fewer releases over a year — or a clearly rising median — would tip this toward Balanced. · confidence: high
The evidence — the niche's most-reviewed games
Schedule IARK: Survival AscendedSunkenlandThronefallSoulmaskRoadCraftshapez 2 - FactoryRusty's Retirement
Aggregated over 28,644 stored reviews from 353 games.
The top 5 games hold 57% of the niche's 865,625 reviews; it takes 33 games to reach 80%. Fewer games to 80% means a harder niche to be seen in.
| Game | Released | Reviews | Steam says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Schedule I | 2025 | 309,552 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| ARK: Survival Ascended | 2023 | 114,139 | Mixed |
| Sunkenland | 2023 | 23,636 | Very Positive |
| Thronefall | 2024 | 23,380 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Soulmask | 2026 | 22,079 | Mostly Positive |
| RoadCraft | 2025 | 16,066 | Mostly Positive |
| shapez 2 - Factory | 2026 | 14,932 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Rusty's Retirement | 2024 | 14,738 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Yog-Sothoth’s Yard | 2023 | 13,631 | Very Positive |
| The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria™ | 2024 | 12,245 | Very Positive |
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Counts are measured (reviews, releases, prices); concentration is review-share, not an index; momentum is new-review pace between our own daily observations, computed across the segment's 400 most-reviewed games.