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Should I ship a Lovecraftian 3D Platformer?
3D Platformer + Lovecraftian
Only 10 developers shipped a Lovecraftian 3D 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, TOLD GOD - The legacy of cthulhu, 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, ×9.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $720 against a market of $630. 18 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $719 (exactly $719) |
| Top 25% | $2.2k (exactly $2,242) |
| Top 5% | $11k (exactly $11,334) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 75% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- 3D Platformer
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Lovecraftian
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 3D Platformer
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 60% positive over 80 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. All of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 18 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×9.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Suffer The Night 2023 · $69k 
Hamilton's Great Adventure 2011 · $69k 
Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh 2016 · $65k 
qop 2017 · $65k 
Chasing the Unseen 2024 · $23k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Suffer The Night | older | $12.49 | 184 71% | 5.5k | $69k (exactly $68,945) | Tainted Pact |
| | Hamilton's Great Adventure | older | $9.99 | 230 69% | 6.9k | $69k (exactly $68,931) | Fatshark |
| | Doorways: Holy Mountains of Flesh | older | $19.99 | 109 74% | 3.3k | $65k (exactly $65,367) | Saibot Studios |
| | qop | older | $1.99 | 1,088 91% | 33k | $65k (exactly $64,954) | Quiet River |
| | Chasing the Unseen | older | $19.99 | 38 60% | 1.1k | $23k (exactly $22,789) | Strange Shift Studio |
 | The Shore VR | older | $11.99 | 50 34% | 1.5k | $18k (exactly $17,985) | Ares Dragonis |
 | Paradox Vector | older | $9.99 | 59 83% | 1.8k | $18k (exactly $17,682) | Schmidt Workshops |
 | TOLD GOD - The legacy of cthulhu | $17.99 | 21 76% | 630 | $11k (exactly $11,334) | Obsession studio | |
 | Leap of Phase: Samantha | older | $12.99 | 22 95% | 660 | $8.6k (exactly $8,573) | Out of the Box Games UG |
 | The Mansion of The Macabre | $14.99 | 10 20% | 300 | $4.5k (exactly $4,497) | Team Tatou | |
 | LSD: Dream Emulator Retro | $2.99 | 25 36% | 750 | $2.2k (exactly $2,242) | Eternity Dev | |
 | Choko loco 2 | $4.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Jacob Waldemar Buczynski, Jinxtengu | |
 | Bearly Alive | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Falling Light | |
 | Toby's Topsy Tale | $2.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | 3 Gnomes Games | |
 | Tentaphage | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Worn Software | |
 | Sombre | $0.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $119 (exactly $119) | Studios Nouk | |
 | Windows Separate Worlds: Chapter 1 | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Raxverse | |
 | The Mortimer Paradox | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Porch Goat Studio LLC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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