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Should I ship a WWII 2D Platformer?
2D Platformer + World War II
Only 5 developers shipped a WWII 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, Grenadier Command, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $30 against a market of $630. 14 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $30 (exactly $30) |
| Top 25% | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 5% | $480 (exactly $480) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 14 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 300% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 21%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- 2D Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- World War II
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- 2D Platformer
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 11,825 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 14 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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- + Party-Based RPGFair
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Comparable games
Bishojo Mangekyo Kotowari to Meikyu no Shojo 2021 · $2.4M 
Cyanotype Daydream -The Girl Who Dreamed the World- 2022 · $852k 
Miss Neko 3 2022 · $401k 
My Memory of Us 2018 · $341k 
Torn Away 2023 · $268k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Bishojo Mangekyo Kotowari to Meikyu no Shojo | older | $29.99 | 2,718 95% | 82k | $2.4M (exactly $2,445,385) | ωstar, Seikei Production |
| | Cyanotype Daydream -The Girl Who Dreamed the World- | older | $39.99 | 710 88% | 21k | $852k (exactly $851,787) | Laplacian |
| | Miss Neko 3 | older | $2.99 | 4,470 92% | 134k | $401k (exactly $400,959) | Double W |
| | My Memory of Us | older | $17.99 | 632 92% | 19k | $341k (exactly $341,090) | Juggler Games |
| | Torn Away | older | $14.99 | 595 92% | 18k | $268k (exactly $267,572) | perelesoq |
 | Everlasting Flowers - Where there is a will, there is a way | older | $29.99 | 283 86% | 8.5k | $255k (exactly $254,615) | sprite, flowers.studio |
 | Commando Collection | older | $4.99 | 1,414 95% | 42k | $212k (exactly $211,676) | Macrojoy |
 | Reimu Needs Help!? Aunn-chan to the Rescue! | older | $6.99 | 157 96% | 4.7k | $33k (exactly $32,923) | ISY |
 | 捉妖物语 Monster Girl | older | $1.99 | 515 78% | 15k | $31k (exactly $30,746) | jksoft |
 | Infinite Jump | older | $1.99 | 331 77% | 9.9k | $20k (exactly $19,761) | No.25 |
 | Grenadier Command | · EA | $15.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $480 (exactly $480) | kratijun |
 | CAMP Z: THE AWAKENING | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | FEAR NO EVIL GAMES LLC. | |
 | Avoid The Stalin's Purge | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | DNCG | |
 | Riflehounds 1942 Colorized | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Dulmari_Creations | |
 | WEGO World War II: Desert War | $39.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | BK Wargames |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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