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Should I ship a 2D Platformer 6DOF game?
6DOF + 2D Platformer
Only 6 developers shipped a 2D Platformer 6DOF game 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, PixelBoss: Shattered Depths, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 8 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $120 against a market of $630. 8 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $120 (exactly $120) |
| Top 25% | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
| Top 5% | $10k (exactly $10,405) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 23%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- 6DOF
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- 2D Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 6DOF, 2D Platformer
- Price point
- $3.99 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 $8.99 or above; the middle game at $2.99.
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 237 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. 8 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
6DOF with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RoguelikeFair
- + TacticalFair
- + RobotsFair
- + WarFair
- + Dark FantasyFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + RhythmPoor odds
- + CyberpunkPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
Comparable games
PixelBoss: Shattered Depths 2026 · EA · $10k 
Cursed Island 2021 · $4.0k 
CucumbeRunner 2023 · $2.5k 
Little Droid 2024 · $2.1k 
Call of Fries 2019 · $1.2k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | PixelBoss: Shattered Depths | · EA | $2.99 | 116 75% | 3.5k | $10k (exactly $10,405) | Quacky Games |
| | Cursed Island | older | $8.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $4.0k (exactly $4,046) | CrystallPunk |
| | CucumbeRunner | older | $3.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $2.5k (exactly $2,514) | Crystal Bat Studio |
| | Little Droid | older | $4.99 | 14 78% | 420 | $2.1k (exactly $2,096) | KingStyle |
| | Call of Fries | older | $0.99 | 41 65% | 1.2k | $1.2k (exactly $1,218) | Anatoliy Loginovskikh |
 | Smelted Kin | older | $4.99 | 8 50% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Microbat Studio |
 | Painted Legend: Knights of Ink & Paper | $6.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Storyan teaM | |
 | Trapped Guys | older | $0.99 | 10 60% | 300 | $297 (exactly $297) | INFINITY BRIDGE |
 | Move Forward | older | $2.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Lukashevich Egor |
 | MergeTD | older | $0.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $148 (exactly $148) | Double Jump |
 | Nangong Detective Agency | $3.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | 喵噫酱（Miao Yee） | |
 | Bizzare Cat Rescuer | $0.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | NinjaCat | |
 | Dimension | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Yuto Manri Games | |
 | Gravity Grove | $7.49 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Tapling Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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