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Should I ship a Zombie 3D Platformer?
3D Platformer + Zombies
Of 81 developers who shipped a Zombie 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.. 69 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 35 developers shipped in the last year and 69 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $89 (exactly $89) |
|---|---|
| Median | $240 (exactly $240) |
| Top 25% | $1.6k (exactly $1,552) |
| Top 5% | $17k (exactly $17,261) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 81 |
| Released games | 201 |
| Announced | 69 |
| 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 195% on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, 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
- Zombies
- 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; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Adventure, Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Third Person, Realistic
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 74% positive over 3,367 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $89. 9 in 10 of the 54 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 69 games are announced against 35 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
3D Platformer with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Sunset Overdrive 2018 · $7.2M 
Ben and Ed 2015 · $1.4M 
IfSunSets 2024 · EA · $1.4M 
Ben and Ed - Blood Party 2018 · $1.0M 
末世少女 Zombie Girl 2023 · $290k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Sunset Overdrive | older | $19.99 | 12,082 90% | 362k | $7.2M (exactly $7,245,575) | Insomniac Games, Blind Squirrel Games |
| | Ben and Ed | older | $9.99 | 4,592 82% | 138k | $1.4M (exactly $1,376,222) | Sluggerfly |
| | IfSunSets | · EA | $19.99 | 2,284 74% | 69k | $1.4M (exactly $1,369,715) | POLYMORPH |
| | Ben and Ed - Blood Party | older | $14.99 | 2,297 88% | 69k | $1.0M (exactly $1,032,961) | Sluggerfly |
| | 末世少女 Zombie Girl | older | $9.99 | 968 50% | 29k | $290k (exactly $290,110) | Utopia Studio |
 | 除邪(CHUXIE) | older | $6.99 | 917 79% | 28k | $192k (exactly $192,295) | LCGaming |
 | Goonya Monster | older | $19.99 | 185 76% | 5.6k | $111k (exactly $110,944) | MUTAN |
 | 深空七号 Deep Space 7 | $5.99 | 307 79% | 9.2k | $55k (exactly $55,168) | JT Studio | |
 | Secret Archives | older | $15.99 | 111 68% | 3.3k | $53k (exactly $53,247) | Juice Game |
 | Arms Evolution: ZOMBIE DESTROYER | older | $5.99 | 268 64% | 8.0k | $48k (exactly $48,160) | Ash Game Studio |
 | The AC130 slays the zombies. | $3.99 | 377 63% | 11k | $45k (exactly $45,127) | 汪双羽 | |
 | ZOMVIRUS | $14.99 | 61 77% | 1.8k | $27k (exactly $27,432) | DMONG Co., Ltd. | |
 | FALL | $4.99 | 153 88% | 4.6k | $23k (exactly $22,904) | 谭浩翔 | |
 | Fracturefront | $8.99 | 64 95% | 1.9k | $17k (exactly $17,261) | 梦行志远 | |
 | TOLD GOD - The legacy of cthulhu | $17.99 | 21 76% | 630 | $11k (exactly $11,334) | Obsession studio | |
 | Strange Brew | $14.99 | 24 100% | 720 | $11k (exactly $10,793) | Electric Monk Media | |
 | Stone 4 Souls | $9.99 | 32 78% | 960 | $9.6k (exactly $9,590) | Adeilson S Vieira | |
 | 除邪2(CHUXIE2) | $6.99 | 44 40% | 1.3k | $9.2k (exactly $9,227) | LCGaming |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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