Dog tag

This chart displays the games released over the years with the Dog tag and the percentage of total Steam releases they represent. The releases count conveys the quantity of games published on Steam each year. It usually follows the increasing amount of Steam games released.

The percentage gives a better estimate of the tag's trend. It shows if the Dog tag is getting more or less popular amongst developers. The Review chart will tell us if this trend is a good thing (i.e. players interest is increasing, tag is undercrowded) or if it's the opposite.

The Dog tag has peaked in 2021, with 94 games released. The tag's popularity is in a range between 0.07% in 2014 and 0.01% in 2017.

Keep in mind that the current year is not over, so the number of games released will still increase. But the percentage is usually a good estimate.

This graph displays the reviews for games associated with the Dog tag, both as count and as a percentage of all Steam reviews, and the value for an average game. Note that if the chart is cluttered, you can always deactivate some 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 Dog tag games.

A standard game associated with this tag received on average between 4 (2010) and 1683 (2014) reviews. Keep in mind that it is the average and not the median, meaning it is heavily influenced by extreme values, like a very successful game with this tag.

The reviews per game as a percentage of the average show that games in the Dog tag received between 11% (2010) and 642% (2012) reviews compared to other tags.

This graph displays the evolution of the Dog tag's games price in USD over the years, and the percentage of free to play games in this tag. Bear in mind that there is inflation over time, which means that a price should slowly increase just to keep the same value.

The median game price peaked in 2014 at 9.99$, and bottomed in 2018 at 4.99$. The free to play ratio was at its lowest in 2018 at 6%, and peaked in 2020 at 22%.

This chart shows an aggregated Steam rating for all the Dog tag games, classed 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 best rating for Dog games is 93% for the Romanian audience, and the worst is 73% for the German audience.