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Should I ship a Party Game 3D Platformer?
3D Platformer + Party Game
Of 93 developers who shipped a Party Game 3D Platformer in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 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., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 181 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 79 developers shipped in the last year and 181 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $358 (exactly $358) |
| Top 25% | $2.5k (exactly $2,545) |
| Top 5% | $29k (exactly $29,042) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 93 |
| Released games | 159 |
| Announced | 181 |
| 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 down 75% on the market, supply 465% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 25%, 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
- Party Game
- 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, Party Game; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Co-op, Online Co-Op
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $7.99 or above
- Art
- 6 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Funny, 3D, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $7.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 2,059 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 19 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 181 games are announced against 79 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
3D Platformer with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Climber Animals: Together 2024 · $720k 
SOS OPS! 2023 · $599k 
Fling to the Finish 2024 · $509k 
Topple Tactics 2023 · $411k 
Crumble 2020 · $306k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Climber Animals: Together | older | $3.99 | 6,014 73% | 180k | $720k (exactly $719,876) | Devotion Interactive |
| | SOS OPS! | older | $4.99 | 4,000 83% | 120k | $599k (exactly $598,800) | ArtDock |
| | Fling to the Finish | older | $19.99 | 849 85% | 25k | $509k (exactly $509,145) | SplitSide Games |
| | Topple Tactics | older | $9.99 | 1,370 88% | 41k | $411k (exactly $410,589) | Braian Strak |
| | Crumble | older | $14.99 | 681 89% | 20k | $306k (exactly $306,246) | BRUTE FORCE |
 | Feather Party | $8.99 | 548 87% | 16k | $148k (exactly $147,796) | threeW | |
 | Frog Sqwad 🐸 | $7.99 | 352 72% | 11k | $84k (exactly $84,374) | Panic Stations | |
 | Head's Adventures:chibichibi | $7.99 | 334 97% | 10k | $80k (exactly $80,060) | ManaWanderer | |
 | Jumping Jazz Cats | $8.99 | 148 74% | 4.4k | $40k (exactly $39,916) | Le Catnip Collective | |
 | FALL GIRLS | older | $6.99 | 187 49% | 5.6k | $39k (exactly $39,214) | Squid Developer |
 | Unicycle Together | $4.99 | 194 89% | 5.8k | $29k (exactly $29,042) | Eneskp, Yusuf Demirhan | |
 | Hold Your King | $5.99 | 154 83% | 4.6k | $28k (exactly $27,674) | Next Big Game Studio | |
 | Shady job | $7.99 | 114 70% | 3.4k | $27k (exactly $27,326) | GAZE IN GAMES | |
 | HAM: The Game | $7.99 | 109 69% | 3.3k | $26k (exactly $26,127) | Little Bird Studios | |
 | Dusty Derby | · EA | $9.99 | 66 100% | 2.0k | $20k (exactly $19,780) | Geniesoft Inc. |
 | Lunars | · EA | $14.99 | 40 97% | 1.2k | $18k (exactly $17,988) | Anubis Arts |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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