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Should I ship a Trading 2D Platformer?
Trading + 2D Platformer
Only 9 developers shipped a Trading 2D Platformer 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, Ile d'Or, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $90 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 4 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 20 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $90 (exactly $90) |
| Top 25% | $2.3k (exactly $2,307) |
| Top 5% | $74k (exactly $73,751) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 down 100% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 22%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Trading
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- 2D Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Trading, 2D Platformer
- 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 $11.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 79% positive over 1,261 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Uncharted Ocean 2019 · $84k 
Land Of Idyllic Beauty 2024 · EA · $80k 
Ile d'Or 2025 · EA · $74k 
Ports of Call Classic 2019 · $13k 
Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum 2022 · $12k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Uncharted Ocean | older | $4.99 | 563 70% | 17k | $84k (exactly $84,281) | HiRabbitgame |
| | Land Of Idyllic Beauty | · EA older | $11.99 | 222 83% | 6.7k | $80k (exactly $79,853) | Neo |
| | Ile d'Or | · EA | $14.99 | 164 88% | 4.9k | $74k (exactly $73,751) | あとらそふと |
| | Ports of Call Classic | older | $4.99 | 84 86% | 2.5k | $13k (exactly $12,575) | Dipl. Ing. Rolf-Dieter Klein |
| | Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum | older | $9.99 | 39 92% | 1.2k | $12k (exactly $11,688) | Retrotainment Games, Digital Eclipse |
 | Droneboi: Conquest | older | $8.99 | 42 73% | 1.3k | $11k (exactly $11,327) | Rizen Planet Studios |
 | East Trade Tycoon: Inheritance | $2.99 | 92 92% | 2.8k | $8.3k (exactly $8,252) | PandaUpStudio | |
 | 英雄荣光医院 | $6.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $2.3k (exactly $2,307) | Areas R | |
 | Little Merchant Legend | · EA older | $4.99 | 13 61% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | DemoDog Games |
 | Swapshot | older | $1.99 | 31 93% | 930 | $1.9k (exactly $1,851) | Naoka Studio |
 | We Don't Cry: Zombie Survival | $11.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $360 (exactly $360) | Bored Alchemist | |
 | 仙途 | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | EighteenPluser | |
 | Surplus Value Simulator | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | WANGZHENGYU | |
 | Croswa | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Ausuc Games |
 | Tides of Trade: Eastern Horizons | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | alpha | |
 | In The Roots Of The Mountain | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | CaljDev |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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