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Should I ship a Character Customization 2D Platformer?
Character Customization + 2D Platformer
Of 199 developers who shipped a Character Customization 2D Platformer in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 285 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $750, ×1.2 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $210; 1 in 20 cleared $46k, ×74 the market median. Revenue is down 10% on the market; 285 games are announced against 96 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $210 (exactly $210) |
|---|---|
| Median | $748 (exactly $748) |
| Top 25% | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) |
| Top 5% | $47k (exactly $46,542) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 199 |
| Released games | 555 |
| Announced | 285 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 down 10% on the market, supply 10% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 20%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Character Customization
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- 2D Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Character Customization, 2D Platformer; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Platformer, Adventure
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Pixel Graphics, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 69% positive over 10,338 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $210. 9 in 10 of the 127 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 285 games are announced against 96 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Character Customization with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
觅长生 2023 · $12M 
Strike Force Heroes 2023 · $2.5M 
Chinese Online Game 2024 · $2.0M 
PATAPON 1+2 REPLAY 2025 · $1.9M 
Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune 2024 · $1.4M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 觅长生 | older | $14.99 | 27,072 93% | 812k | $12M (exactly $12,174,278) | Chalcedony Network |
| | Strike Force Heroes | older | $19.99 | 4,193 79% | 126k | $2.5M (exactly $2,514,542) | Sky9 Games |
| | Chinese Online Game | older | $9.99 | 6,610 82% | 198k | $2.0M (exactly $1,981,017) | 648工作室 |
| | PATAPON 1+2 REPLAY | $29.99 | 2,091 83% | 63k | $1.9M (exactly $1,881,273) | SAS CO.,LTD. | |
| | Frontier Hunter: Erza’s Wheel of Fortune | older | $24.99 | 1,914 82% | 57k | $1.4M (exactly $1,434,926) | IceSitruuna |
 | PLATiNA :: LAB | $19.99 | 1,780 50% | 53k | $1.1M (exactly $1,067,466) | HIGH-END Games | |
 | Salt and Sacrifice | older | $19.99 | 1,738 62% | 52k | $1.0M (exactly $1,042,279) | Devoured Studios, Ska Studios |
 | Caveblazers | older | $9.99 | 3,416 86% | 102k | $1.0M (exactly $1,023,775) | Deadpan Games |
 | Contra: Operation Galuga | older | $39.99 | 810 87% | 24k | $972k (exactly $971,757) | WayForward |
 | 再刷一把2：金色传说 | $9.99 | 2,748 44% | 82k | $824k (exactly $823,576) | 滑稽工作室 | |
 | Iron Meat | $19.99 | 982 96% | 29k | $589k (exactly $588,905) | Ivan Valeryevich Suvorov, Retroware | |
 | JUMP KING QUEST | $14.99 | 1,202 88% | 36k | $541k (exactly $540,539) | Nexile | |
 | Sea Fantasy | $14.99 | 585 86% | 18k | $263k (exactly $263,074) | METASLA | |
 | Arisen Force: HeroTest | $10.99 | 374 82% | 11k | $123k (exactly $123,308) | Lemport | |
 | Knock'Em Out | $7.99 | 239 85% | 7.2k | $57k (exactly $57,288) | BBear Studio | |
 | Gehenna | $19.99 | 78 79% | 2.3k | $47k (exactly $46,777) | Kemuriya | |
 | Babushka's Glitch Dungeon | $5.99 | 259 98% | 7.8k | $47k (exactly $46,542) | pets club 2 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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