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Should I ship a Trivia 3D Platformer?
3D Platformer + Trivia
Only 10 developers shipped a Trivia 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, Not Sure About That, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 4 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $180 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 4 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $180 (exactly $180) |
| Top 25% | $2.9k (exactly $2,934) |
| Top 5% | $11k (exactly $11,377) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 4 |
| 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 as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 10%, 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
- Trivia
- effort 1 / 10 · high · question bank and scoring
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 3D Platformer, Trivia
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 79% positive over 185 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 4 games are announced against 5 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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Comparable games
Ichima-san 2024 · $20k 
Not Sure About That 2025 · $11k 
Idiom Royale 2026 · $5.4k 
Logic - Keypad 2023 · $4.3k 
One Hundred Ways 2015 · $4.3k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ichima-san | older | $10.99 | 61 100% | 1.8k | $20k (exactly $20,112) | sewohayami |
| | Not Sure About That | $4.99 | 76 98% | 2.3k | $11k (exactly $11,377) | Scratch | |
| | Idiom Royale | $1.99 | 91 63% | 2.7k | $5.4k (exactly $5,433) | NyxWorks | |
| | Logic - Keypad | older | $4.99 | 29 89% | 870 | $4.3k (exactly $4,341) | NguyeZ |
| | One Hundred Ways | older | $7.99 | 18 44% | 540 | $4.3k (exactly $4,315) | Sunlight Games |
 | MOTTAINAI GHOST | $8.15 | 12 75% | 360 | $2.9k (exactly $2,934) | woof Inc., sewohayami | |
 | ZiDouQianWen | older | $15.99 | 5 40% | 150 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | WANG XUEYUAN |
 | Two Hundred Ways | older | $14.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Sunlight Games |
 | A Matter of Principle | older | $3.99 | 11 81% | 330 | $1.3k (exactly $1,317) | DillyFrame |
 | Answer To Survive | older | $3.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $479 (exactly $479) | 4entertainment |
 | Color Block Escape | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | FWGames | |
 | Mumu: 3D Desktop Mummy | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Mumu | |
 | Defying Fate: 60 Days to the Exam | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Touchas99 | |
 | Do Goats Dream of Golden Grass? | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | teamAlpha | |
 | Corner BookShop | · EA | $7.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Areumdamda Media Lab |
 | Master of Stealth | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Star Street Wanderer | |
 | BallQuizzle | · EA | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Joseph Dolmaya |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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