Niche hub
426 games carry the tag · 38 released in the last 12 months (vs 167 the year before) · median price $9.99
crowded. Crowded space: 38 releases in the last year, and the median game here reaches an estimated 8,234 units (middle half 3,606–28,766). Standing out is a visibility problem before a quality one — the adjacent combos show where supply thins out.
What would change this: About 50% 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.Slay the SpireBalatroContent WarningDeep Rock Galactic: SurvivorBackrooms: Escape TogetherBlazBlue Entropy Effect
Aggregated over 31,138 stored reviews from 397 games.
The top 5 games hold 70% of the niche's 2,150,346 reviews; it takes 12 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 |
| Slay the Spire | 2019 | 216,735 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Balatro | 2024 | 194,032 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Content Warning | 2024 | 161,938 | Very Positive |
| Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor | 2025 | 47,963 | Very Positive |
| Backrooms: Escape Together | 2022 | 47,081 | Very Positive |
| BlazBlue Entropy Effect | 2024 | 35,684 | Very Positive |
| Soulstone Survivors | 2025 | 26,648 | Very Positive |
| Tiny Glade | 2024 | 24,237 | 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.