On Steam, the cheapest price band has the worst reception across all 10 genres
Games priced under a real $3.25 systematically get the worst reception in their genre. The best reception sits at $6.46-$12.36 — never the cheapest, and not always the most expensive either. Based on that, I recommend concentrating due diligence on Adventure, Indie and Casual.
Horizontal bar chart comparing each genre's cheapest price band against its best band. In all 10 genres the best band's median review score is higher than the cheapest band's, by 2.5 to 5.0 percentage points.
