Tags & features

Genres barely move; tags move constantly. This chart counts releases per year that carry a tag among their top six — the same threshold the niche radar uses. Without it, every casually applied tag would count and the chart would mostly show how tagging behaviour changed rather than what was being made.

Tags are voted on by players and reflect a game's current tags, not the ones it had at release. Click a legend entry to isolate a line.

All three charts below are derived from Steam's store categories. The API does offer a dedicated controller field, and it is recorded now — but only from the moment each game was last refreshed, so the categories stay the only source that reaches back across every release year.

Like the genre charts, these reflect today's store page. A game that added controller support in a later patch counts as having had it all along. Steam Deck compatibility and supported languages are not collected at all, so they are not shown — a chart without data behind it is the one thing a statistics page must not produce.

Two decisions every project eventually faces: whether to plan for paid add-ons, and whether to ship a demo. These charts say how common each answer actually is — by release year, and by how far a game got.

Unlike everything above, these three cover only games with at least 50 reviews. The underlying fields ride along with the regular refresh cycle, which reaches well-reviewed games within days and the long tail far more slowly — measured across the whole catalogue, these lines would describe the refresh queue rather than Steam. The narrower population is the one that is actually covered.

Read the DLC line as a floor, not a verdict: it counts games that have add-ons today, and successful games are the ones that get them. It answers “is this normal in my corner of the store”, not “will this make my game sell”.