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1,055 games carry the tag · 22 released in the last 12 months (vs 455 the year before) · median price $5.99
crowded. Crowded space: 22 releases in the last year, and the median game here reaches an estimated 6,638 units (middle half 3,341–22,742). Standing out is a visibility problem before a quality one — the adjacent combos show where supply thins out.
What would change this: About 32% 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 CompanyResident Evil 4Content WarningMiSideBuckshot RouletteWEBFISHINGSILENT HILL 2The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Aggregated over 36,865 stored reviews from 399 games.
The top 5 games hold 48% of the niche's 2,529,883 reviews; it takes 50 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 |
| Resident Evil 4 | 2023 | 268,894 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Content Warning | 2024 | 161,938 | Very Positive |
| MiSide | 2024 | 140,521 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| Buckshot Roulette | 2024 | 122,929 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| WEBFISHING | 2024 | 70,281 | Overwhelmingly Positive |
| SILENT HILL 2 | 2024 | 63,161 | Very Positive |
| The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty | 2024 | 59,693 | Very Positive |
| Backrooms: Escape Together | 2022 | 47,081 | Very Positive |
| Inside the Backrooms | 2022 | 46,631 | Mostly 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.