Cult Classic tag
Tag created in June 2017
Cult Classic's popularity amongst developers
This graph shows games released over the years with the Cult Classic tag and the percentage they represent. The number of releases gives an appreciation of the quantity of games published each year. It often tends to increase naturally, just like the total amount of Steam games released.
The percentage, on the other hand, gives a better view of the trend a tag follows. It shows if, in proportion, the Cult Classic tag is getting more or less popular. The Review chart can let us know if this trend is a positive thing (i.e. players interest for the tag is growing) or a negative one (the tag is overcrowded).
The Cult Classic tag has peaked in 2017, with 34 games released. The tag's popularity is in a range between 0.27% in 2013 and 0.0019% in 2022.
Bear in mind that 2023 is not over yet. The number of releases will continue to increase, but the percentage is already a good estimate of things to come.
Cult Classic's popularity amongst players
On this chart, you can see the reviews for games associated with the Cult Classic tag, both as count and as a percentage of all Steam reviews, and the value for an average game. If the normalized and average lines are too small, you can deactivate the review count and % of the average lines by clicking on the legend.
While the review count clearly quantifies the reviews a tag receives, keep in mind that it also follows the popularity of Steam itself. The value normalized as a percentage of all Steam reviews is often more revealing, as it gives you the popularity trend for Cult Classic tag games.
A standard game associated with this tag received on average between 30 (2010) and 500 (2021) reviews. Bear in mind that it is the average, and it can be strongly influenced by extreme values, like the release of a very popular game with this tag.
The reviews per game as a percentage of the average show that games in the Cult Classic tag received between 45% (2013) and 122% (2021) reviews compared to other tags.
Price of games tagged with Cult Classic
This graph displays the evolution of the Cult Classic tag's games price in USD over the years, and the percentage of free to play games in this tag. Don't forget that a price should slowly increase year-on-year just to keep up with inflation.
The median price for Cult Classic games was at its lowest in 2009 at 6.99$, and peaked in 2019 at 14.99$. The free to play ratio was at its lowest in 2017 at 6%, and peaked in 2019 at 21%.
Positive reviews ratio for Cult Classic, per language
This graph shows an aggregated Steam rating for the whole Cult Classic tag, separated by language. It helps estimate how different audiences judge a game with this tag. A lower rating doesn't always mean that the audience doesn't enjoy that particular tag, as some cultures tend to always give lower scores. But it will affect a game's rating nonetheless.
The highest rating for Cult Classic is 95% for the Czech language, and the lowest is 78% for the Japanese language.
| Image | Name | Description | Price | Rating | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | Bad Rats: the Rats' Revenge | Bad Rats is a physics puzzle game where rats finally get their bloody revenge on their new prisoners: The cats. Come up with creative solutions for each puzzle using physics, functional objects, and your specially trained Rats. Try different ways of solving each puzzle to finish faster or earn higher scores. | 0.99 | 77.3% | Jul 20, 2009 |
  | Disney G-Force | G-Force draws you into the adventures of an elite team of trained guinea pigs on a mission to thwart a sinister plot to destroy the world. Take control of both G-Force commander Darwin and his sidekick, Mooch, as they apply their talents to defeat an evil army of altered household appliances. | 19.99 | 94% | Oct 6, 2014 |
  | Garfield Kart | Join Garfield and his friends in the funniest fast and fur-ious game! What character do you want to play with? Garfield, Odie, Jon, Nermal... you choose! Take part in no-holds-barred crazy races. | 4.99 | 89% | Oct 16, 2015 |
  | killer7 | Sneak into a world of underground assassins as Harman Smith, a man who manifests 7 deadly personalities, the killer7. Take control of this distinct murderers' row as they hunt down the sinister Kun Lan to thwart his plan of world dominance. | 19.99 | 96% | Nov 15, 2018 |
  | Garfield Kart - Furious Racing | Garfield, the famous lasagna-loving cat is back to take on Jon, Odie and company in a no-holds-barred racing game! | 14.99 | 89.4% | Nov 6, 2019 |
  | SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated | Are you ready, kids? The cult classic is back, faithfully remade in spongetastic splendor! Play as SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy and show the evil Plankton that crime pays even less than Mr. Krabs. | 29.99 | 94.8% | Jun 23, 2020 |
  | Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs | Join Red, Chuck, Bomb & the Blues to save the stolen eggs in Angry Birds VR: Isle of Pigs, an immersive VR adventure! Discover the island where the greedy pigs vacation, slingshot your way to defeat Dr. Frankenswine & create/share/discover an infinite number of levels with the online level builder. | 14.99 | 90.8% | Feb 7, 2019 |
  | I Love You, Colonel Sanders! A Finger Lickin’ Good Dating Simulator | Welcome to the most delicious dating simulator ever created. Do you have what it takes to be the business partner of and win the heart of the most famous chicken salesman of all time? Play to find out! Go ahead, Colonel Sanders is waiting. | Free | 92% | Sep 24, 2019 |
  | Sam & Max Hit the Road | Grab your nightstick, squeal like a siren, and Hit the Road with Sam & Max, Freelance Police, as they attempt to crack their toughest case. | 5.99 | 96.4% | Nov 16, 2018 |
  | Psychonauts | A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin. | 9.99 | 96.2% | Oct 11, 2006 |
  | Little Racers STREET | Little Racers STREET fuses the fun-oriented simplicity of top-down racing games with the excitement of street racing, and the results couldn't be better! | 5.99 | 83.6% | Feb 6, 2014 |
  | Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines | Vampire®: The Masquerade-Bloodlines™ delivers a new type of RPG experience-one that blends all the core elements of a traditional RPG with the graphical richness, immediacy and brutal combat of a first-person action game. The game plunges players into the dark and gritty vampire underworld of modern-day L.A. as a creature of the night. | 19.99 | 94.6% | Mar 22, 2007 |
  | FOTONICA | Ever wondered what running at 140mph feels like? FOTONICA is a first-person game about the thrill of speed and traveling flawlessly through complex environments.FOTONICA is simple, but is not easy: it follows a tradition of arcade games that are easy to pick up and almost impossible to master. | 14.99 | 89.4% | Nov 6, 2014 |
  | Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders | Space Aliens have built a stupidity machine that's slowly reducing everyone's IQ to single digits. Worse yet, the only person who can stop them is Zak McKracken, reporter for the disreputable National Inquisitor, who dreams up stories about carnivorous cantaloupes and vegetarian vampires. | 5.99 | 90.5% | Nov 16, 2018 |
  | Simon the Sorcerer - Mucusade: 25th Anniversary Edition | Just when he thought his life was regaining some semblance of normality, Simon's wonder years are once again turned upside down when the evil sorcerer Sordid returns from the grave with only one thing on his mind - revenge! | 8.99 | 67.4% | Apr 3, 2018 |
  | Beyond Good and Evil™ | Play as Jade, a young investigative reporter, and expose a terrible government conspiracy. It is up to you and your loyal pig friend Pey'j to save your planet and its inhabitants. | 9.99 | 86.2% | May 13, 2008 |
  | The Curse of Monkey Island | The only pirate adventure that asks the question: What's sharper, your sword or your wit? | 6.99 | 97.5% | Mar 22, 2018 |
  | Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap | Boasting beautiful, hand-drawn animations and a re-orchestrated soundtrack, the cult classic returns with a unique blend of exploration, action, and adventure! | 19.99 | 87.6% | Jun 8, 2017 |
  | Fenimore Fillmore: The Westerner | Fenimore Fillmore: The Westerner. Originally released in 2004 was the best adventures of the year in different countries, and won many awards. Fenimore Fillmore is back now on Steam on amazing remastered version. | 9.99 | 91.2% | Mar 10, 2017 |
  | Impossible Creatures Steam Edition | Impossible Creatures is a 3D RTS game that pits the player against an evil villain. Using Earth’s most formidable animals as building blocks, the player must create an army of genetically-altered mutant monsters in a titanic struggle to protect an unsuspecting world. | 9.99 | 95.5% | Nov 11, 2015 |
  | Pathologic Classic HD | Pathologic Classic HD is the Definitive Edition of the original Cult Classic Psychological First-Person Survival game. In this unforgettable experience, players control one of three unique characters as they try to save a mysterious town from a deadly plague that cannot be stopped. | 12.99 | 87.9% | Oct 29, 2015 |
  | Grim Fandango Remastered | One of the most acclaimed adventure games of all time is now back, better than ever. Grim Fandango Remastered has the all the beautiful art and engaging story fans remember, but has also been remastered to look, sound, and control even better than the award-winning original release. | 14.99 | 90.7% | Jan 26, 2015 |
  | Shenmue I & II | SEGA®’s most requested re-release of all time finally comes to a new generation. Shenmue delivers an epic story of revenge within a unique open world that is still unrivalled in depth and detail. Return to the epic saga that defined modern gaming. The saga begins…again. | 29.99 | 89.6% | Aug 21, 2018 |