I have found that there is the Grand Strategy Category in the Steam DB page: https://steamdb.info/graph/?tagid=4364
If we plot the games by number of 24h peak players we see that I:R is in the second quartile compared to all the games labeled as GSG.
What is more interesting is that much older games retain an important group of playerbase. PDX having many games in the top position is quite an achievement and that confirms the 'ecosystem' rule. Specially when other franchises like Sid Meier's Civilization and Total War games are also able to replicate this result.
The case of I:R is quite odd, though, because it is new and with the right ecosystem so we should expect a better performance.
Something interesting to check with time is the total number of players in this category. Some people are saying that GSG has a limited player base and games will canabilize players from other games. Remains to be seen if new original games can bring new players to the genre.
I will update this Thread weekly to get an evolution of the player base for GSG with time. As for Wednesday 31/08/2022 the cumulative 24h peak player base is 315,017 players. (I will update it every Wednesday). I will post the uptaded chart of 24h peak players Vs Time here:
PS: I have added the sum of all GSG 24h peak players from PDX to compare to the overall numbers to control the trend lines of both numbers in time. The two hypothesis to check:
If we plot the games by number of 24h peak players we see that I:R is in the second quartile compared to all the games labeled as GSG.

What is more interesting is that much older games retain an important group of playerbase. PDX having many games in the top position is quite an achievement and that confirms the 'ecosystem' rule. Specially when other franchises like Sid Meier's Civilization and Total War games are also able to replicate this result.
The case of I:R is quite odd, though, because it is new and with the right ecosystem so we should expect a better performance.
Something interesting to check with time is the total number of players in this category. Some people are saying that GSG has a limited player base and games will canabilize players from other games. Remains to be seen if new original games can bring new players to the genre.
I will update this Thread weekly to get an evolution of the player base for GSG with time. As for Wednesday 31/08/2022 the cumulative 24h peak player base is 315,017 players. (I will update it every Wednesday). I will post the uptaded chart of 24h peak players Vs Time here:
PS: I have added the sum of all GSG 24h peak players from PDX to compare to the overall numbers to control the trend lines of both numbers in time. The two hypothesis to check:
- new GSG bring more players to the genre
- new GSG from PDX do not cannabilize existing PDX GSG

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