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Should I ship a 2D Platformer Parkour game?
Parkour + 2D Platformer
Of 142 developers who shipped a 2D Platformer Parkour game 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.. 154 more are announced, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $180 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 69 developers shipped in the last year and 154 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $179 (exactly $179) |
| Top 25% | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) |
| Top 5% | $27k (exactly $26,632) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 142 |
| Released games | 414 |
| Announced | 154 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 up 140% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Parkour
- 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
- Parkour, 2D Platformer; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Platformer, Precision Platformer
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $10.49 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Funny, Pixel Graphics
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $10.49 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 2,354 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. Nearly all of the 94 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 154 games are announced against 69 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Parkour with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + Combat RacingFair
- + Precision PlatformerLong shot
- + MetroidvaniaPoor odds
- + SkateboardingPoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + CatsPoor odds
- + DestructionPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
Comparable games
Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016 · $18M 
N++ (NPLUSPLUS) 2016 · $1.3M 
CONVERGENCE: A League of Legends Story™ 2023 · $943k 
KYOTO XANADU -the Blooming Phantom- 2026 · $665k 
Super Fancy Pants Adventure 2017 · $613k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ultimate Chicken Horse | older | $14.99 | 41,060 95% | 1.2M | $18M (exactly $18,464,682) | Clever Endeavour Games |
| | N++ (NPLUSPLUS) | older | $14.99 | 2,825 95% | 85k | $1.3M (exactly $1,270,402) | Metanet Software Inc. |
| | CONVERGENCE: A League of Legends Story™ | older | $29.99 | 1,048 87% | 31k | $943k (exactly $942,886) | Double Stallion |
| | KYOTO XANADU -the Blooming Phantom- | $54.99 | 403 78% | 12k | $665k (exactly $664,829) | Nihon Falcom | |
| | Super Fancy Pants Adventure | older | $9.99 | 2,046 93% | 61k | $613k (exactly $613,186) | Borne Games |
 | I wanna be the Creator | older | $5.99 | 2,860 94% | 86k | $514k (exactly $513,942) | Aikesi |
 | Dustforce DX | older | $9.99 | 1,214 93% | 36k | $364k (exactly $363,836) | Hitbox Team |
 | Dino Run DX | older | $5.99 | 1,124 95% | 34k | $202k (exactly $201,983) | Pixeljam |
 | Double Dragon Revive | $34.99 | 157 63% | 4.7k | $165k (exactly $164,803) | YUKE’S | |
 | SpeedRunners 2: King of Speed | $9.99 | 447 55% | 13k | $134k (exactly $133,966) | Fair Play Labs | |
 | GuGu Pizza : Delivering Pizza to the Space Station? Boss, this is just not right! | $6.99 | 517 87% | 16k | $108k (exactly $108,415) | AnomalyGuys | |
 | The Siege and the Sandfox | $14.99 | 180 64% | 5.4k | $81k (exactly $80,946) | Cardboard Sword | |
 | Clockwork Ambrosia | $19.99 | 133 84% | 4.0k | $80k (exactly $79,760) | Realmsoft | |
 | Knock'Em Out | $7.99 | 239 85% | 7.2k | $57k (exactly $57,288) | BBear Studio | |
 | This Is No Cave | $6.99 | 127 96% | 3.8k | $27k (exactly $26,632) | monome.studio | |
 | Turnip Mountain | $10.49 | 78 97% | 2.3k | $25k (exactly $24,547) | Luke Sanderson | |
 | Bauhaus Bonk | $7.99 | 73 100% | 2.2k | $17k (exactly $17,498) | Spoonful Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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