Dystopian tag
Tag created in June 2017
Dystopian's popularity amongst developers
This chart displays the games released over the years with the Dystopian tag and the percentage of total Steam releases 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 idea of the trend a tag follows. It shows if, in proportion, the Dystopian tag is getting more or less popular from a developer's perspective. 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 Dystopian game tag peaked in 2021 with 194 games released. The popularity of the tag is in a range between 0.16% in 2012 and 0.05% in 2018.
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.
Dystopian's popularity amongst players
This chart shows the reviews for games with the Dystopian tag, either as count and as a percentage of all Steam reviews, and the average value for a game. Note that 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.
The review count gives a view of the sheer amount of reviews a tag receives, but it also follows the popularity of Steam itself. That is why the normalized value as a percentage of all Steam reviews is often more interesting, as it gives you the popularity trend for Dystopian tag games.
A typical game associated with this tag collected on average between 89 (2010) and 1759 (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 Dystopian tag received between 104% (2023) and 336% (2016) reviews compared to other tags.
Price of games tagged with Dystopian
This graph displays the evolution of the Dystopian 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 2018 at 11.99$, and bottomed in 2021 at 7.99$. The percentage of free to play peaked in 2020 at 17%, and bottomed in 2022 at 2%.
| Image | Name | Description | Price | Rating | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | Beholder | You’re a state-installed landlord in a totalitarian country. Place listening devices, steal and sneak into your tenants’ apartments. Use what you uncovered to report anyone capable of plotting against the state. You MUST! But WILL you? | 9.99 | 91.8% | Nov 9, 2016 |
  | Booth: A Dystopian Adventure | The year is 2036. In this famine-riddled world, food-centric sovereignty has been established. Living alone inside a food-inspection booth, you are striving to find truth and peace beyond the borderline. | 9.99 | 90.3% | Jul 22, 2020 |
  | Mind Scanners | Greetings. Your Mind Scanner request has been approved. Your duty is to diagnose and treat the citizens of The Structure. The patient list is long so don't waste your time. We’ll let you see your daughter soon... | 16.99 | 82.5% | May 20, 2021 |
  | IDIOT | Utopian island. Calm and happy life. Food is synthesized from cartridges. The night comes at your will. And you don't care about life outside the island. You know exactly what is bad there - this is what the state said, and it is always right. | 4.99 | 68% | Jan 30, 2021 |
  | Escape Covid Camp | Sent to camp against your will, find a way to escape to freedom. Craft goods to trade with other inhabitants for objects to use in your planned escape. Can you strategize and execute an escape plan through the perimeter of patrolling guards? | 2.99 | N/A | Nov 30, 2021 |
  | SALVATIONLAND | Deciding to find the "city of dreams", young traveller from the wasteland named Victor went to northern mountains by the old railway tracks. The desire to find his place in the cradle of surviving mankind turns into a struggle against an evil mayor and transformation into a hero-liberator... | 3.99 | 90.9% | Feb 15, 2023 |
  | Do Not Feed the Monkeys 2099 | Spy on strangers through security cameras, invade their privacy and discover their secrets in this digital voyeur simulator. Welcome to the future of The Primate Observation Club. Even in 2099 the rule about messing with your unlucky subjects still remains in this sequel: DO NOT feed the monkeys! | 14.99 | 74.7% | May 25, 2023 |
  | Afterslave | Afterslave is a short visual novel about a boy that have reached culmination of his life in a totalitaristic country | 0.99 | N/A | Aug 3, 2022 |
  | City Eye | In the world of City Eye, you’ll become an operator of the Central Monitoring System, who will try to prevent the effects of every single transgression in the game. Use city maps to track dangerous areas and don’t let the suspects run away from the Police. | 9.99 | 35.7% | Aug 12, 2022 |
  | My Beautiful Paper Smile | Welcome, child, to your new home. Here you shall learn the art of perfection. Here you shall learn to smile. Be sure that smile doesn’t fade into sadness, or you will need to run and hide… | 14.99 | 86.4% | Oct 14, 2021 |
  | 41 Hours: Prologue | 41 Hours is a first-person shooter dramatic game that follows the narrative of Ethan, a workaholic scientist in search of his long-lost wife. This is a one-hour prologue of the incredible, action-packed journey. | Free | 55.6% | Mar 19, 2021 |
  | Beholder 2 | You are an intern at the central ministry of a totalitarian state with your whole career ahead of you. Work your way up the ladder by scheming against employees, spying on your boss, and completing paperwork. Or do you turn against the state and expose corruption. The choice is still yours to make! | 14.99 | 88.3% | Dec 4, 2018 |
  | Fumiko! | This gravity-defying 3D Platformer takes you on a surreal trip through a twisted virtual network. Uncover the secrets this world tries to hide from you: an artificial intelligence named Fumiko! | 6.99 | 84% | Feb 13, 2017 |
  | Howdy, Jacob! | A dystopian find the hidden object game with full-motion video of puppets. Come spend some time with the chaotic crew of the "Laughsail!" television show, and make sure to eat your broccoli. | 4.99 | 87.7% | Dec 17, 2020 |
  | Quarantineer | For the glory of Motherland, the truth shall never be revealed. None of us expected this, Yet history is repeating itself. | 9.99 | 81.2% | Dec 27, 2021 |
  | Lotto Life | A dystopian lottery simulator. Set in a city ruled by a mega-corporation, try to stay afloat in a world with mandatory consumerism quotas. Will the lottery offer reprieve? Will lady luck favor YOU? | 9.99 | N/A | Oct 15, 2021 |
  | Homeseek | Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game set on a dystopian, resource-strapped Earth at the beginning of the next century. In a dried-up wasteland where water has become the new gold, every choice becomes life or death. With your guidance, survival just might be within reach. | 24.99 | 68% | Jul 20, 2023 |
  | Mr. Rainer's Solve-It Service | When the last thread becomes entangled, their song will be heard. | 5.99 | 97.6% | Feb 21, 2022 |
  | NORCO | NORCO is a text-based point & click adventure that immerses the player in the sinking suburbs and industrial swamplands of an increasingly surreal and distorted South Louisiana. | 14.99 | 93.1% | Mar 24, 2022 |
  | Liberated: Free Trial | Try Liberated for free! Get a preview of an action-adventure game inside a playable hand-drawn comic book. Uncover an alarmingly current cyberpunk reality where human rights are dying away. Take up arms and solve puzzles in a noir rain-soaked city that’s desperate for justice. | Free | 85.7% | Jul 23, 2020 |
  | 子夜之章:历史的终局～MidNights of Desperado～ | The protagonist of this lonely life is you. You leave your hometown and come to a strange world. The world is prosperous and cold, strange but real. You may like it or wish you could tear it to pieces. The good news is, you have the choice! | 4.99 | 98.3% | Mar 12, 2021 |
  | Beholder 3 | When a high-ranking security officer saves you from prison, you end up a pawn in her schemes. Now you must eliminate anyone standing in the way of her secret plans and try to get your life back while working two jobs. No tenant, employee or superior is safe from your spying. | 14.99 | 67.9% | Mar 3, 2022 |
  | No Place for the Dissident | In No Place for the Dissident you'll have to spread a new ideology to dominate the world. Whatever means are necessary. Adopt new politics from the ideology tree, manage each country, and compete with other players. Watch closely the consequences of your acts when the game is over. | 3.99 | 60% | Nov 12, 2020 |
  | It's time to get out from the solar system | A game with a futuristic anti-utopian story — a hardcore space shooter with RPG elements. | 2.99 | 54.6% | Sep 1, 2015 |