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Methodology

How to use this data

Choose games that resemble your idea, then explore market size, releases, reviews, and tags. The numbers help you investigate; the decision is still yours.

Start with similar games
Choose a genre and a game type. The analysis uses titles that have both among their main tags instead of comparing your idea with the whole catalogue.
Look at each signal
Game count, recent releases, approval, and concentration answer different questions. Read them together before deciding whether there may be room.
Colour shows how many games use a tag
In Matrix and Orbit, blue means the tag appears in a smaller share of the group; red means a larger share. Colour does not measure quality, revenue, or chance of success.
Owners and concentration are estimates
Values marked with ≈ are SteamSpy estimates. Concentration is also an estimate based on paid games in the group, not audited revenue.
The data is a snapshot in time
Tags, games, and dates reflect the latest available update. If something is missing, that does not prove it was never attempted or that there is no demand.

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How to find the market comparable to your game

Comparing an idea with all of Steam mixes games that would never compete for the same attention. GamingBubble narrows that catalogue to titles that share a genre and game type. You can then investigate specific traits inside that group.

Three choices form the comparison

  1. 01 · Genre

    Action

    This is the broadest lens in the analysis. A game can belong to more than one genre when its classification supports those readings.

  2. 02 · Game type

    Shooter

    Also called an anchor in the methodology. It narrows the genre to the games that provide a closer reference.

  3. 03 · Tag or angle

    Sci-Fi

    This is the question asked inside the comparable market: how a theme, activity, mode, or system appears in those games.

Where the genre lenses come from

Action · Adventure · Casual · Experimental · Puzzle · Racing · RPG · Simulation · Sports · Strategy · Tabletop

These are the eleven top-level lenses in Steam's Tag Wizard. They are not every genre available in the store, and they are not exclusive categories. A game's main tags take priority. When they provide no compatible lens, an official store genre can support the reading and is always identified in game lists.

The tag asks the question

After genre and game type form the market, you choose a trait to investigate. The reading separates themes, activities, modes, and systems instead of treating different things as equivalent.

The number of combinations available to explore appears in the analysis and follows the current snapshot.

What the percentage means

If Sci-Fi appears at 12%, roughly 12 in every 100 games in the Action + Shooter group carry that tag among the main tags used for classification.

What it does not say on its own

  • It is not a 12% chance of success, sales, or approval.
  • Low presence does not prove opportunity, and high presence does not prove saturation.
  • Zero among the main tags does not mean no game has ever used that trait. Check secondary occurrences and the matching titles too.

Read the signals together

The tool does not reduce a market to a badge. Each number answers a different question.

Supply

How many games form the group and how many carry the selected tag.

Pace

When those games launched. Tag coverage is lower for recent years, so the chart provides catalogue context but cannot prove on its own that a market is growing or cooling down.

Reception

How reviewed titles were received by players, without treating reviews as sales.

Concentration

How much of the estimated ownership sits with the largest games, separating a distributed market from one dominated by a few titles.

Which view to use

They all start from the same games. What changes is the question.

  1. 01

    Overview

    Use it to get to know the market, see release pace, and explore tags in the orbit.

  2. 02

    Matrix

    Use it to compare the same tags across several game types within one genre.

  3. 03

    Table

    Use it to sort tags and open the games behind each row.

  4. 04

    Search a combination

    Use it when you already know the genre, game type, and tag you want to check.

Now try it

Start with an idea you know

Choose a genre and a game type. Then open a tag and check the releases and titles before drawing a conclusion.

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