Niche hub
1,292 games carry the tag · 32 released in the last 12 months (vs 532 the year before) · median price $6.99
crowded. Crowded space: 32 releases in the last year, and the median game here reaches an estimated 6,593 units (middle half 3,340–20,526). Standing out is a visibility problem before a quality one — the adjacent combos show where supply thins out.
What would change this: About 53% 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
Lethal CompanyR.E.P.O.Resident Evil 4Path of Exile 2Content WarningMiSideBuckshot RouletteSILENT HILL 2
Aggregated over 42,311 stored reviews from 400 games.
The top 5 games hold 47% of the niche's 3,385,804 reviews; it takes 43 games to reach 80%. Fewer games to 80% means a harder niche to be seen in.
| Game | Released | Reviews | Steam says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lethal Company | 2023 | 509,899 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| R.E.P.O. | 2025 | 413,079 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Resident Evil 4 | 2023 | 268,894 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Path of Exile 2 | 2024 | 223,542 | Mostly Positive |
| Content Warning | 2024 | 161,938 | Very Positive |
| MiSide | 2024 | 140,521 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Buckshot Roulette | 2024 | 122,929 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| SILENT HILL 2 | 2024 | 63,161 | Very Positive |
| Liar's Bar | 2024 | 55,950 | Very Positive |
| The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered | 2025 | 53,174 | 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.