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Should I ship a Shoot 'Em Up 6DOF game?
6DOF + Shoot 'Em Up
Only 12 developers shipped a Shoot 'Em Up 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, Metro Awakening, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced, ×2.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $420 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 13 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $360 (exactly $360) |
| Top 25% | $809 (exactly $809) |
| Top 5% | $2.7M (exactly $2,710,796) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 57 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 30% 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
- Shoot 'Em Up
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 6DOF, Shoot 'Em Up
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 6 games average 73% positive over 3,035 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 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
Metro Awakening 2024 · $2.7M 
Raw Data 2017 · $2.4M 
Death in the Water 2 2023 · $780k 
Drums Rock 2023 · $241k 
Disassembly VR 2019 · $141k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Metro Awakening | $29.99 | 3,013 73% | 90k | $2.7M (exactly $2,710,796) | Vertigo Games | |
| | Raw Data | older | $39.99 | 2,036 81% | 61k | $2.4M (exactly $2,442,589) | Survios |
| | Death in the Water 2 | older | $14.99 | 1,734 83% | 52k | $780k (exactly $779,780) | Lighthouse Games Studio |
| | Drums Rock | older | $19.99 | 402 88% | 12k | $241k (exactly $241,079) | Garage51 |
| | Disassembly VR | older | $29.99 | 157 59% | 4.7k | $141k (exactly $141,253) | Khor Chin Heong |
 | Holodance | older | $19.99 | 201 85% | 6.0k | $121k (exactly $120,540) | narayana games UG |
 | Deep Eclipse: New Space Odyssey | older | $6.99 | 165 73% | 5.0k | $35k (exactly $34,600) | Ultravision Interactive |
 | Evasion | older | $19.99 | 48 68% | 1.4k | $29k (exactly $28,786) | Archiact |
 | Viro Move | older | $24.99 | 23 43% | 690 | $17k (exactly $17,243) | FIT REALITY |
 | Rotten Apple | older | $14.99 | 36 83% | 1.1k | $16k (exactly $16,189) | VRilliant Studios |
 | Rogue Piñatas: VRmageddon | $24.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $1.5k (exactly $1,499) | Nerd Ninjas | |
 | Warranty Not Included | · EA | $8.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | VRXtra |
 | Attack of the Jersey Drones | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Nekomata Games LLC | |
 | FastShoot | $0.99 | 14 64% | 420 | $416 (exactly $416) | Fleer Art Studio, L1as | |
 | Medic Simulator: Combat Zone | · EA | $11.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $360 (exactly $360) | Code Lab |
 | Brick Blaster | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Electronic Imagination | |
 | Cannoneer | $11.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | dReal | |
 | Battle of Nowhere | · EA | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Great Victory Legends, Inc. |
 | DarkSpase | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Devon James |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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