Should I ship a Zombie 6DOF game?
6DOF + Zombies
Only 11 developers shipped a Zombie 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, Arizona Sunshine® VR Remake, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $6.5k against a market of $630. 9 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.5k (exactly $6,475) |
| Top 25% | $15k (exactly $14,622) |
| Top 5% | $721k (exactly $721,439) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 9 |
| 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 up 80% on the market, supply 45% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 6DOF
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 1,890 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.5k. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 9 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
6DOF with a different setting or mood, 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
Arizona Sunshine® VR 2 2023 · $2.0M 
Arizona Sunshine® VR Remake 2024 · $721k 
Zero Caliber 2 Remastered 2025 · $325k 
HordeZ 2016 · $190k 
Gloomy Eyes VR 2020 · $50k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Arizona Sunshine® VR 2 | older | $29.99 | 2,258 84% | 68k | $2.0M (exactly $2,031,523) | Vertigo Games |
| | Arizona Sunshine® VR Remake | $19.99 | 1,203 88% | 36k | $721k (exactly $721,439) | Vertigo Games | |
| | Zero Caliber 2 Remastered | $24.99 | 433 79% | 13k | $325k (exactly $324,620) | XREAL Games | |
| | HordeZ | older | $16.99 | 373 83% | 11k | $190k (exactly $190,118) | Zenz VR |
| | Gloomy Eyes VR | older | $8.99 | 186 88% | 5.6k | $50k (exactly $50,164) | 3DAR, Atlas V |
 | Death Horizon: Reloaded | older | $19.99 | 76 80% | 2.3k | $46k (exactly $45,577) | Horizon Lab LLP |
 | Zombieland VR: Headshot Fever | older | $19.99 | 62 83% | 1.9k | $37k (exactly $37,181) | XR Games |
 | Daybreaker VR | · EA older | $19.99 | 28 35% | 840 | $17k (exactly $16,792) | Liens, Power Up to Maximum |
 | Rotten Apple | older | $14.99 | 36 83% | 1.1k | $16k (exactly $16,189) | VRilliant Studios |
 | Death Horizon: Cyberfusion | $7.99 | 61 67% | 1.8k | $15k (exactly $14,622) | Horizon Lab | |
 | T.D.Z. 4 Chapter 1 - Arrival | $5.99 | 38 92% | 1.1k | $6.8k (exactly $6,829) | Team GZ, VADIM CHURILOV | |
 | Blood Night | · EA | $1.99 | 109 95% | 3.3k | $6.5k (exactly $6,507) | Team |
 | Evacuation Zone: Tampere | $11.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $6.5k (exactly $6,475) | Virtual Dawn | |
 | Phantom Asylum VR | · EA | $9.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | SRVR |
 | RHYTHMIC | · EA | $9.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Polar Studios Robin Kammel |
 | Undead Hunter Part I | $1.99 | 14 78% | 420 | $836 (exactly $836) | Fireplay Studio | |
 | Glory Defence | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Waytrel Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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