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Should I ship a 3D Platformer Hunting game?
Hunting + 3D Platformer
Only 17 developers shipped a 3D Platformer Hunting 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, IfSunSets, 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: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450, ×0.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240; 1 in 20 cleared $1.3M, ×2181 the market median. Revenue is down 85% on the market; 10 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $240 (exactly $240) |
|---|---|
| Median | $450 (exactly $450) |
| Top 25% | $4.8k (exactly $4,798) |
| Top 5% | $1.4M (exactly $1,369,715) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 46 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 85% on the market, supply 15% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hunting
- 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
- Hunting, 3D Platformer; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Action-Adventure, Exploration
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Third Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 74% positive over 2,521 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 8 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Hunting with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + AgriculturePoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + MagicPoor odds
- + SimulationPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + RoguelikePoor odds
Comparable games
IfSunSets 2024 · EA · $1.4M 
Catch Me 2025 · $32k 
EXELIO 2026 · EA · $10k 
ARTDINK GAME LOG: Tail of the Sun 2025 · $8.4k 
Off Grids 2023 · $6.0k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | IfSunSets | · EA | $19.99 | 2,284 74% | 69k | $1.4M (exactly $1,369,715) | POLYMORPH |
| | Catch Me | $5.99 | 178 70% | 5.3k | $32k (exactly $31,987) | Doorway Games | |
| | EXELIO | · EA | $19.99 | 17 64% | 510 | $10k (exactly $10,195) | AI Frog Interactive, Inc. |
| | ARTDINK GAME LOG: Tail of the Sun | $19.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $8.4k (exactly $8,396) | ARTDINK | |
| | Off Grids | older | $19.99 | 10 20% | 300 | $6.0k (exactly $5,997) | Querio |
 | Man Made | · EA | $19.99 | 8 37% | 240 | $4.8k (exactly $4,798) | Rule51 |
 | Island Raft Survival 2021: Ocean Escape | · EA older | $2.99 | 43 37% | 1.3k | $3.9k (exactly $3,857) | Francolins studio |
 | LivingForest | $15.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $3.8k (exactly $3,838) | LivingEveryday | |
 | CODE:VALKYRIE III | $19.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $3.6k (exactly $3,598) | Ulimworks | |
 | SHOOTING STAR VR | · EA older | $14.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $3.1k (exactly $3,148) | Looksten Inc. |
 | The Final Shuffle | $5.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $719 (exactly $719) | KaashFusionStudio | |
 | Sherlock Holmes – The Hunt for Moriarty | $14.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Joindots Interactive GmbH | |
 | VELTHRA | $12.40 | 1 0% | 30 | $372 (exactly $372) | mttsus |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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