Idler tag

This chart displays the games released over the years with the Idler 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 gives a better estimate of the tag's trend. It shows if the Idler 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 Idler game tag peaked in 2022 with 231 games released. The popularity of the tag is in a range between 0.0060% in 2014 and 0.17% in 2023.

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.

This graph displays the reviews for games associated with the Idler 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.

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 Idler tag games.

A typical game associated with this tag collected on average between 3888 (2015) and 97 (2023) 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 Idler tag received between 43% (2023) and 875% (2015) reviews compared to other tags.

This graph displays the evolution of the Idler 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 game price was at its lowest in 2018 at 1.99$, and peaked in 2022 at 3.99$. The percentage of free to play peaked in 2019 at 40%, and bottomed in 2023 at 1%.

This chart shows an aggregated Steam rating for all the Idler 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 Idler games is 93% for the Thai audience, and the worst is 81% for the Simplified Chinese audience.