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452 games carry the tag · 4 released in the last 12 months (vs 172 the year before) · median price $9.99
underserved. Underserved space: 4 releases in the last year, yet the median game reaches an estimated 4,877 units (middle half 2,938–17,142). Demand is outrunning supply — a well-made entry has room to land.
What would change this: A wave of new releases (supply +25%) or a falling median would tip this toward Balanced. · confidence: high
The evidence — the niche's most-reviewed games
Split FictionPizza TowerChained TogetherBlazBlue Entropy EffectBlasphemous 2Indiana Jones and the Great CirclePseudoregaliaENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist
Aggregated over 25,386 stored reviews from 396 games.
The top 5 games hold 47% of the niche's 677,756 reviews; it takes 37 games to reach 80%. Fewer games to 80% means a harder niche to be seen in.
| Game | Released | Reviews | Steam says |
|---|---|---|---|
| Split Fiction | 2025 | 124,403 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Pizza Tower | 2023 | 72,236 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Chained Together | 2024 | 62,918 | Very Positive |
| BlazBlue Entropy Effect | 2024 | 35,684 | Very Positive |
| Blasphemous 2 | 2023 | 20,559 | Very Positive |
| Indiana Jones and the Great Circle | 2024 | 20,021 | Very Positive |
| Pseudoregalia | 2023 | 18,605 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist | 2025 | 18,422 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS | 2024 | 15,265 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| White Knuckle | 2025 | 13,380 | Overwhelmingly 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.