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Should I ship a Steampunk 3D Platformer?
3D Platformer + Steampunk
Only 10 developers shipped a Steampunk 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, Kristala, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 30 more are announced, ×5.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.7k, ×2.7 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $450; 1 in 20 cleared $580k, ×927 the market median. Revenue is up 140% on the market; 30 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.7k (exactly $1,679) |
| Top 25% | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) |
| Top 5% | $582k (exactly $581,854) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 30 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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 140% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 28%, 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
- Steampunk
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 3D Platformer
- Price point
- $14.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 73% positive over 542 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 30 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Contrast 2013 · $1.4M 
Kristala 2026 · $582k 
Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries 2015 · $296k 
Hazel Sky 2022 · $181k 
The Tale of Onogoro 2022 · $50k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Contrast | older | $9.99 | 4,548 90% | 136k | $1.4M (exactly $1,363,036) | Compulsion Games |
| | Kristala | $39.99 | 485 71% | 15k | $582k (exactly $581,854) | Astral Clocktower Studios | |
| | Woolfe - The Red Hood Diaries | older | $9.99 | 987 59% | 30k | $296k (exactly $295,804) | GRIN |
| | Hazel Sky | older | $24.99 | 242 68% | 7.3k | $181k (exactly $181,427) | Coffee Addict Studio |
| | The Tale of Onogoro | older | $34.99 | 48 79% | 1.4k | $50k (exactly $50,386) | AMATA Games |
 | DROS | older | $9.99 | 77 94% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $23,077) | emergeWorlds |
 | Aethernaut | older | $16.99 | 40 57% | 1.2k | $20k (exactly $20,388) | Dragon Slumber |
 | CyberWaifu | older | $3.99 | 132 48% | 4.0k | $16k (exactly $15,800) | CyberDesktop |
 | The Watchmaker | older | $9.99 | 45 51% | 1.4k | $13k (exactly $13,486) | Micropsia Games SpA |
 | Power Sink | $14.99 | 26 96% | 780 | $12k (exactly $11,692) | Winterwire Games | |
 | The Wilds of Dacrima: Field Notes from a Poorly Supervised Alchemist and his Unruly Clockwork Companion | $19.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) | Antler Studios | |
 | Vertigo Rush | · EA | $14.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $2.2k (exactly $2,248) | Sumalab |
 | Mental Hellacious | $13.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $1.7k (exactly $1,679) | MoreNEWttoStudio | |
 | GYROPIA | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Farkas Interactive | |
 | Hopward | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | GoodGhostGames | |
 | Chronos Shift | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Pigeon Entertainment | |
 | ParkTour | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Federico Garcia | |
 | Escape from Chancellor's Chambers | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Diogras Entertainment |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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