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Should I ship a Gun Customization 2D Fighter?
Gun Customization + 2D Fighter
Only 8 developers shipped a Gun Customization 2D Fighter in the last 2 years, too few for firm odds: the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.; the top game by est. revenue, Type or Die, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $960, ×1.5 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $61; 1 in 20 cleared $12k, ×19 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 13 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $61 (exactly $61) |
|---|---|
| Median | $959 (exactly $959) |
| Top 25% | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) |
| Top 5% | $12k (exactly $12,171) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
momentum: how a niche's revenue percentiles and developer count moved between two equal, adjacent periods, divided by the market's own move. See method., 12 months: revenue too few recent games to read momentum, supply 200% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Gun Customization
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- 2D Fighter
- effort 5 / 10 · low · frame-precise animation and rollback netcode
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Gun Customization, 2D Fighter
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 270 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $61. 13 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Gun Customization with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Immersive SimPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Resource ManagementPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
Comparable games
Nurose 2022 · EA · $27k 
Type or Die 2026 · $12k 
Bloody Rampage City 2022 · $5.5k 
Lab Inspect 2022 · $5.5k 
Battle Squares 2024 · $5.1k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Nurose | · EA older | $9.99 | 90 87% | 2.7k | $27k (exactly $26,973) | Orongto |
| | Type or Die | $13.99 | 29 31% | 870 | $12k (exactly $12,171) | Type or Die | |
| | Bloody Rampage City | older | $4.99 | 37 70% | 1.1k | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) | Crimson Chaos Studios |
| | Lab Inspect | older | $4.99 | 37 86% | 1.1k | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) | 8BITLAB |
| | Battle Squares | $9.99 | 17 76% | 510 | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) | Feesh Studio | |
 | Starlight: Eye of the Storm | older | $7.99 | 17 88% | 510 | $4.1k (exactly $4,075) | Strides Interactive Game Studio |
 | Magic and Elements | older | $4.99 | 23 73% | 690 | $3.4k (exactly $3,443) | HIlous |
 | Chemical Combat | $8.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.9k (exactly $1,888) | SigmoidDev | |
 | Battle of Finland: Winter War | older | $4.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) | Team-K |
 | Meet Me In The Well | $7.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $959 (exactly $959) | Lord Moose Games | |
 | Shell of the coward | $9.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Jacquey Arthur | |
 | Ghost of Kyiv | $2.04 | 1 100% | 30 | $61 (exactly $61) | Jonald | |
 | Skull Skull Skull | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | T-Bone | |
 | Tretrais | · EA | $3.00 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | DJAS Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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