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Should I ship a 3D Platformer Action RTS?
Action RTS + 3D Platformer
Only 13 developers shipped a 3D Platformer Action RTS 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, BURGGEIST, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced, ×18 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $89 against a market of $1.5k. 18 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $89 (exactly $89) |
| Top 25% | $628 (exactly $628) |
| Top 5% | $94k (exactly $93,600) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 46 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 90% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Action RTS
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- 3D Platformer
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Action RTS, 3D Platformer
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 75% positive over 436 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 20 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 18 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×18 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Action RTS with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + FPSLong shot
- + PuzzleLong shot
- + Turn-Based StrategyPoor odds
- + Turn-Based TacticsPoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Procedural GenerationPoor odds
- + Grand StrategyPoor odds
- + 4XPoor odds
Comparable games
BURGGEIST 2024 · $94k 
Twelves:Shadow 2025 · $60k 
OTTTD 2014 · $46k 
Traveler Of Light 2025 · EA · $1.7k 
Shoot The Barrel - BING BANG BOOM 2024 · EA · $1.3k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | BURGGEIST | $12.00 | 260 97% | 7.8k | $94k (exactly $93,600) | GHRIAN STUDIO | |
| | Twelves:Shadow | $12.99 | 154 35% | 4.6k | $60k (exactly $60,014) | JuLu Studio | |
| | OTTTD | older | $7.99 | 190 78% | 5.7k | $46k (exactly $45,543) | SMG Studio |
| | Traveler Of Light | · EA | $7.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) | ZENG CHEN |
| | Shoot The Barrel - BING BANG BOOM | · EA older | $14.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.3k (exactly $1,349) | Shoot The Barrel |
 | Forest Spring | older | $5.00 | 7 42% | 210 | $1.1k (exactly $1,050) | OAS |
 | Street grabbing of territory | $2.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Southern Vermilion Bird | |
 | FireFly(萤火) | · EA older | $5.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $539 (exactly $539) | Guanyan |
 | The Dance of Maple Leaves | $8.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $270 (exactly $270) | 程进, 程进 | |
 | Drone:Modern Warfare | $2.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | AndyKwok008 | |
 | Little Witches vs Monsters | $0.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | Thiago Cesário Machado | |
 | Riverside Gals / 大乱闘リバーサイドギャルズ | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | 黒の御者団 | |
 | Gateball - Memuro Championship | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Capial Game Studio | |
 | Paper Mages | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gently Giant LLC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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