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Should I ship a Tower Defense 2D Fighter?
2D Fighter + Tower Defense
Only 11 developers shipped a Tower Defense 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, Gold Defence, 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.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $60 in the last 2 years and $60 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 7 developers shipped in the last year and 13 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $60 (exactly $60) |
| Top 25% | $450 (exactly $450) |
| Top 5% | $6.0k (exactly $5,994) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 75% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- 2D Fighter
- effort 5 / 10 · low · frame-precise animation and rollback netcode
- Tower Defense
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 2D Fighter, Tower Defense
- Price point
- $3.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 6 games average 53% positive over 32 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
2D Fighter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + IdlerFair
- + RhythmFair
- + SimulationFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + ManagementFair
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Comparable games
Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense 2020 · $5.9M 
Stickman Trenches 2023 · $345k 
Gold Defence 2025 · $6.0k 
Crazy Mafioso 2020 · $1.4k 
Goblin Assault: Tower Defense 2025 · EA · $898 | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Kingdom Rush Vengeance - Tower Defense | older | $19.99 | 9,906 93% | 297k | $5.9M (exactly $5,940,628) | Ironhide Game Studio |
| | Stickman Trenches | older | $5.99 | 1,922 81% | 58k | $345k (exactly $345,383) | Big Play Games |
| | Gold Defence | $9.99 | 20 65% | 600 | $6.0k (exactly $5,994) | Gamesforgames | |
| | Crazy Mafioso | older | $2.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $1.4k (exactly $1,435) | Rabotiagi games |
| | Goblin Assault: Tower Defense | · EA | $4.99 | 6 16% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Hard Shark Games |
 | Knaights | $14.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Jeremiah Zagala | |
 | Wild world | · EA older | $0.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $446 (exactly $446) | Pixel Ground Studio |
 | Age of Giants | older | $0.99 | 7 57% | 210 | $208 (exactly $208) | Astrobot |
 | Ink & Void | $1.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | Shintaro Higashi | |
 | Compost | older | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Midnight Warden |
 | Earth’s Last Defense Idle Fleet | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Jimmy Wilson, Colton Wilson, Hunter Wil… (Jimmy Wilson, Colton Wilson, Hunter Wilson, Julie A Wilson, Baylee Wilson, Jolie Wilson, Julie Wilson) | |
 | Lunar Elixer | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Luke Del Deo | |
 | The Mission Exorcist | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Player Transform | |
 | Geometry Guardian | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Yang Botong | |
 | Wreckwake Endless Sea | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Jetsan Inc | |
 | Crown&Sword | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Renaluna Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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