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Should I ship an Action Roguelike 6DOF game?
6DOF + Action Roguelike
Only 14 developers shipped an Action Roguelike 6DOF game 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, VR Sailing, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $840, ×1.3 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $73k, ×117 the market median. Revenue is down 100% on the market; 14 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $836 (exactly $836) |
| Top 25% | $6.9k (exactly $6,893) |
| Top 5% | $74k (exactly $73,588) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $11.99 |
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 25% fewer 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.
- 6DOF
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Action Roguelike
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 6DOF, Action Roguelike; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Physics, Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $11.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with VR, 3D, First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $11.99.
The top 8 games average 91% positive over 463 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 14 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
6DOF with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RoguelikeFair
- + TacticalFair
- + RobotsFair
- + WarFair
- + Dark FantasyFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + RhythmPoor odds
- + CyberpunkPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
Comparable games
EVERSPACE™ 2017 · $5.9M 
Sublevel Zero Redux 2015 · $201k 
VR Sailing 2024 · $74k 
Lost Fleet 2022 · EA · $40k 
Titan Isles 2025 · $30k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | EVERSPACE™ | older | $19.99 | 9,809 77% | 294k | $5.9M (exactly $5,882,457) | ROCKFISH Games |
| | Sublevel Zero Redux | older | $14.99 | 448 85% | 13k | $201k (exactly $201,466) | Sigtrap |
| | VR Sailing | $7.99 | 307 96% | 9.2k | $74k (exactly $73,588) | HFRK. | |
| | Lost Fleet | · EA older | $19.99 | 67 61% | 2.0k | $40k (exactly $40,180) | InfinityNan Studios |
| | Titan Isles | $24.99 | 40 95% | 1.2k | $30k (exactly $29,988) | Psytec Games Ltd | |
 | Uberlaufer | · EA older | $10.00 | 74 83% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $22,200) | Think Tank Decoy Software LLC |
 | Death Horizon: Cyberfusion | $7.99 | 61 67% | 1.8k | $15k (exactly $14,622) | Horizon Lab | |
 | SWARM 2 | older | $24.99 | 19 73% | 570 | $14k (exactly $14,244) | Greensky Games |
 | Wrath and Retribution | $9.99 | 23 91% | 690 | $6.9k (exactly $6,893) | Mad Vulture Games | |
 | HexWind | $11.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $4.7k (exactly $4,676) | Charm Games | |
 | Rogue Piñatas: VRmageddon | $24.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $1.5k (exactly $1,499) | Nerd Ninjas | |
 | Slashboy | $1.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $836 (exactly $836) | Punch Game Project | |
 | Harvester Arno | $3.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | LAL | |
 | Surplus | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Song Jun | |
 | Eloquent | $49.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Chen Min |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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