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Should I ship a 3D Platformer Colony Sim?
Colony Sim + 3D Platformer
Only 2 developers shipped a 3D Platformer Colony Sim in the last 2 years. Over 4 years, 7 did: 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.. 16 more are announced, ×16 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.5k against a market of $630. 16 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $898 (exactly $898) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) |
| Top 25% | $10k (exactly $10,490) |
| Top 5% | $57k (exactly $56,943) |
| Developers, 4 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 6%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Colony Sim
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- 3D Platformer
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Colony Sim, 3D Platformer
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 4 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 351 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $900. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×16 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Duck Life 9: The Flock 2024 · $57k 
Chang'an: The capital of Tang Dynasty 2021 · $17k 
Age of Jura 2022 · $10k 
Cellings 2021 · EA · $8.9k 
GARDEN OF EDEN 2023 · $2.9k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Duck Life 9: The Flock | older | $9.99 | 190 83% | 5.7k | $57k (exactly $56,943) | Wix Games |
| | Chang'an: The capital of Tang Dynasty | older | $9.99 | 58 70% | 1.7k | $17k (exactly $17,383) | Romulus |
| | Age of Jura | older | $9.99 | 35 74% | 1.1k | $10k (exactly $10,490) | Mystic ERA games |
| | Cellings | · EA older | $7.99 | 37 94% | 1.1k | $8.9k (exactly $8,869) | Struct9 |
| | GARDEN OF EDEN | older | $15.99 | 6 16% | 180 | $2.9k (exactly $2,878) | 凯撒工作室 |
 | Hexfactory | $4.99 | 10 60% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | Aquila Industrial | |
 | Food Store Simulator | $4.99 | 6 50% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | mobaroid | |
 | Only go up™ | older | $5.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $719 (exactly $719) | Y Games, YUNDONGWOOK |
 | LandCombat:Ren | · EA older | $7.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | Banada |
 | To Save Humanity From Virus | older | $1.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $239 (exactly $239) | Tomas Daugela |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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