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Should I ship a Sokoban 3D Platformer?
3D Platformer + Sokoban
Only 12 developers shipped a Sokoban 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, He Who Watches, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, level with the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $50. Revenue is up 25% on the market; 9 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $7.1k (exactly $7,130) |
| Top 5% | $65k (exactly $65,367) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 9 |
| 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 up 25% on the market, supply 235% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, 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
- Sokoban
- effort 2 / 10 · high · grid pushing rules and level files
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 3D Platformer, Sokoban
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 87% positive over 211 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
3D Platformer with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + CatsLong shot
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Comparable games
He Who Watches 2026 · $65k 
Time Master 2022 · $29k 
Brain Break 2020 · $25k 
Forklift Load 2020 · $12k 
Don't Touch this Button! 2021 · $11k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | He Who Watches | $19.99 | 109 96% | 3.3k | $65k (exactly $65,367) | Bobby Vanden | |
| | Time Master | older | $14.99 | 64 95% | 1.9k | $29k (exactly $28,781) | MorpheusZ |
| | Brain Break | older | $4.99 | 164 75% | 4.9k | $25k (exactly $24,551) | Astralis Games |
| | Forklift Load | older | $2.99 | 130 83% | 3.9k | $12k (exactly $11,661) | KIMIDORI SOFT |
| | Don't Touch this Button! | older | $3.99 | 88 93% | 2.6k | $11k (exactly $10,534) | 9 Eyes Game Studio |
 | Lighthaze World | $18.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $9.1k (exactly $9,115) | Radiobush | |
 | Schoolgirl Card Pull Simulator | $6.99 | 34 61% | 1.0k | $7.1k (exactly $7,130) | Violet Soft | |
 | Isekai Mage Girl Gacha Pull Simulator: Elemental Card Collection | $6.99 | 27 74% | 810 | $5.7k (exactly $5,662) | Violet Soft | |
 | Fable of Sand Paws | older | $10.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $3.0k (exactly $2,967) | Arthur Iung Dias |
 | Return home | older | $5.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $2.2k (exactly $2,156) | RZGames |
 | Puzzledom | $4.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | FWGames | |
 | Ratico Puzzle Adventure | $1.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $657 (exactly $657) | Navarro PIM Ltd. | |
 | Skipper 2 | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | tinyaxe | |
 | Color Block Escape | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | FWGames | |
 | PickingSimulator | $10.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $330 (exactly $330) | turusaki | |
 | ModernFactory | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | LN |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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