Are You Trendy? The Big Gaming Keyword Trends from the Last Five Years

[Zed Clampet]

The cozy game boom is the clearest trend on Steam over five years of data

GameDiscoverCo's data shows the word "cozy" being used in capsule descriptions more and more frequently.

www.pcgamer.com

Keywords used in game descriptions for high earning games:

Cozy up 675%
Solo up 450%
Factory up 350%
Adult up 314%

If you wouldn't normally be interested, but it's Monday, you're at work, and suddenly you feel oddly curious, here's a link to the spreadsheet. It's large enough to distract you until lunch.

GameDiscoverCo research - Steam capsule keywords, 2020-2025

docs.google.com

 

[Pifanjr]

I'm not going to double check every game description of all the games I've played recently, but I doubt more than 1 or 2 of them contain any of those 4 words.

Which makes sense since most of the games I play are probably at least 5 years old.

 

[Zed Clampet]

I'm not going to double check every game description of all the games I've played recently, but I doubt more than 1 or 2 of them contain any of those 4 words.

Which makes sense since most of the games I play are probably at least 5 years old.

Keep in mind, this report and article were reporting increases. So if something has only showed up in 0.25 percent of games, and this time it showed up in 1.25 percent, then it had a 400 percent increase, even though that would still represent a small portion of games.

It's kind of like when they say "People who do X have double the chance of Y type of cancer." That sounds very grim until you realize that the chance of getting Y type of cancer is 0.2 percent, so the people doing X have 0.4 percent chance.

 

[Colif]

Whats a Cozy game?
A cozy game can be any game that provides comfort, warmth and relaxation for the gamer.

there are other descriptions:
video games that generally have players functioning in "activities such as farming, gathering, growing and nurturing" and assisting other characters through non-violent acts

So since the definition isn't really set in concrete, the meaning might be different per user. I mean, there are people that play FPS for relaxation... so its not simply just non violent acts

The other 3 Keywords are more clear.

Starts making a Solo Adult Factory game... sounds like a Tycoon game to me. Or something like Theme Hospital... not sure how i integrate the conveyor belts. Maybe its a cross over with roller coaster tycoon...

 

[Pifanjr]

Starts making a Solo Adult Factory game... sounds like a Tycoon game to me. Or something like Theme Hospital... not sure how i integrate the conveyor belts. Maybe its a cross over with roller coaster tycoon...

There's probably a Minecraft modpack that fits that.

 

[BeardyHat]

I've definitely seen some recent games that are management games based on adult subjects...guess maybe that's not factory, but still.

Anyway, C&C: Red Alert and Vanilla WoW are my Cozy games.