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Should I ship a Mars Action-Adventure?
Action-Adventure + Mars
Only 11 developers shipped a Mars Action-Adventure 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, Psychedelia: The Psychonaut, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×5.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $150 against a market of $630. 21 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $59 (exactly $59) |
|---|---|
| Median | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 25% | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 5% | $2.2k (exactly $2,159) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 44 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 795% on the market, supply 45% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Action-Adventure
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Mars
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 93% positive over 15 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $59. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Action-Adventure with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dating SimFair
- + MinigamesFair
- + BikesFair
- + TransportationFair
- + MotorbikeFair
- + TypingLong shot
- + Time AttackLong shot
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + MMORPGPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Villain ProtagonistPoor odds
Comparable games
Deliver Us Mars 2023 · $2.0M 
Relicta 2020 · $140k 
Diluvian Ultra 2023 · $46k 
KUR 2022 · $28k 
The Last Hope 2016 · $16k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Deliver Us Mars | older | $29.99 | 2,271 74% | 68k | $2.0M (exactly $2,043,219) | KeokeN Interactive |
| | Relicta | older | $19.99 | 234 76% | 7.0k | $140k (exactly $140,330) | Mighty Polygon |
| | Diluvian Ultra | older | $9.99 | 152 71% | 4.6k | $46k (exactly $45,554) | Cresthelm Studios |
| | KUR | older | $19.99 | 46 60% | 1.4k | $28k (exactly $27,586) | Really Ragdoll |
| | The Last Hope | older | $1.99 | 268 46% | 8.0k | $16k (exactly $16,000) | Balti Calarasi |
 | G WARRIOR | older | $4.99 | 106 90% | 3.2k | $16k (exactly $15,868) | Liao Kai, LKK GAME |
 | INTERSTELLAR PRIME | · EA older | $9.99 | 44 52% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $13,187) | Dreamcatcher Studio |
 | Sci-fi builder | older | $9.99 | 18 50% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | Games For Pleasure |
 | Psychedelia: The Psychonaut | $17.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $2.2k (exactly $2,159) | Rohan Chapman von Wedel | |
 | Alone on Mars | older | $3.99 | 18 83% | 540 | $2.2k (exactly $2,155) | Gnelf |
 | Off World Racing | · EA | $14.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $899 (exactly $899) | Off World Racing Company |
 | Invasion 2 | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | CDIS Lab. | |
 | Blood Aliens 3 | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Ciberrex Games | |
 | Journey to Earth | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Digital Kingdom | |
 | Bryan's Indie Collection | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Bryan Veres | |
 | Pink Devil | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Lola Fisher | |
 | Cowboy In Space | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Da Waffle H8ter | |
 | Space Vortex | $25.00 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hosny | |
 | Tretrais | · EA | $3.00 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | DJAS Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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