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Should I ship a 2D Platformer Trading Card Game?
Trading Card Game + 2D Platformer
Only 9 developers shipped a 2D Platformer Trading Card 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, Baduk Challenge (Go Challenge), made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $150 in the last 2 years and $240 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 10 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 25% | $239 (exactly $239) |
| Top 5% | $1.3k (exactly $1,319) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 29%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Trading Card Game
- 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
- Trading Card Game, 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 $9.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 2,918 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. 10 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Trading Card Game with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Immersive SimStrong odds
- + SandboxFair
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + Procedural GenerationPoor odds
- + TradingPoor odds
- + Life SimPoor odds
- + CollectathonPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Auto BattlerPoor odds
- + Roguelike DeckbuilderPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
Comparable games
Fishing Adventure 2019 · $221k 
Beyond Gravity 2014 · $47k 
Tinboy 2015 · $35k 
Sexy Jigsaw | 性感拼图 | 섹시 퍼즐 | セクシーなパズル 2018 · $26k 
九州风流 2022 · EA · $21k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Fishing Adventure | older | $4.99 | 1,479 85% | 44k | $221k (exactly $221,406) | MasterCode |
| | Beyond Gravity | older | $1.99 | 789 88% | 24k | $47k (exactly $47,103) | Qwiboo Ltd |
| | Tinboy | older | $4.99 | 231 64% | 6.9k | $35k (exactly $34,581) | Interactive Stone |
| | Sexy Jigsaw | 性感拼图 | 섹시 퍼즐 | セクシーなパズル | older | $3.99 | 215 83% | 6.5k | $26k (exactly $25,736) | ZOV GAME STUDIO |
| | 九州风流 | · EA older | $17.99 | 38 60% | 1.1k | $21k (exactly $20,509) | GB |
 | 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 |
 | 幻斋阴阳录 Genzai:Serialization | older | $3.99 | 75 84% | 2.3k | $9.0k (exactly $8,978) | Genzai Studio |
 | 孑游列国 | older | $3.99 | 16 68% | 480 | $1.9k (exactly $1,915) | Mystical95 Studio |
 | Kawaii Rainbow Portal | older | $1.99 | 32 71% | 960 | $1.9k (exactly $1,910) | CSM |
 | Baduk Challenge (Go Challenge) | $10.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $1.3k (exactly $1,319) | OH YU HWAN | |
 | Hexa Vanguard | $12.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $390 (exactly $390) | Hexa Devs | |
 | Real Puzzles - Kittens | $1.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $239 (exactly $239) | Black Cat Leo | |
 | Soul Monsters Card Game | $5.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Industrial Miracle (yawangshiro) | |
 | Random Isles | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Mounight | |
 | 战略大师 Strategy Master | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 撒香蕉工作室 | |
 | 超能力麻将 | · EA | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | DINGWOKER |
 | 黑帆王座·Galactic Loadout | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Pocket Forge | |
 | Cat & Mouse Dungeon | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Xunx |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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