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Should I ship a Lemmings Adventure game?
Adventure + Lemmings
Only 5 developers shipped a Lemmings Adventure 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, Necrotyper, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced, ×10.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
Only 0 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $210 against a market of $480. 10 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $210 (exactly $210) |
| Top 25% | $1.6k (exactly $1,618) |
| Top 5% | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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: too few recent games to read.
Free games: 16%, 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
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Adventure, Lemmings
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 4,327 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 0 developers who shipped in the last year, ×10.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Adventure with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SamuraiFair
- + FMVFair
- + PinballFair
- + Job SimulatorFair
- + Escape RoomFair
- + Mini GolfFair
- + SportsFair
- + GolfFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Time AttackFair
- + Traditional RoguelikeFair
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
Comparable games
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HUMANITY 2023 · $439k 
StrikeForce Kitty 2018 · $300k 
Cargo! The Quest for Gravity 2011 · $94k 
Moons Of Darsalon 2023 · $77k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse | older | $19.99 | 1,781 89% | 53k | $1.1M (exactly $1,068,066) | Aspyr |
| | HUMANITY | older | $29.99 | 488 92% | 15k | $439k (exactly $439,054) | tha ltd., Enhance |
| | StrikeForce Kitty | older | $9.99 | 1,002 89% | 30k | $300k (exactly $300,299) | Creepy Brothers |
| | Cargo! The Quest for Gravity | older | $9.99 | 312 83% | 9.4k | $94k (exactly $93,506) | Ice-Pick Lodge |
| | Moons Of Darsalon | older | $19.67 | 131 78% | 3.9k | $77k (exactly $77,303) | Dr. Kucho! Games |
 | Flockers™ | older | $9.99 | 158 76% | 4.7k | $47k (exactly $47,353) | Team17 Digital Ltd |
 | Tin Hearts | older | $19.99 | 75 85% | 2.3k | $45k (exactly $44,978) | Rogue Sun |
 | Clones | older | $1.99 | 335 76% | 10k | $20k (exactly $20,000) | Tomkorp Computer Solutions Inc. |
 | Necrotyper | $14.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Vildiur | |
 | Dwarflings | older | $2.99 | 33 72% | 990 | $3.0k (exactly $2,960) | Starwind Games |
 | Inflatum | $8.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.6k (exactly $1,618) | Michael Henderson, Inflatum Forum, Infl… (Michael Henderson, Inflatum Forum, Inflatum Announcements) | |
 | Jack Barau | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Rodolphe BAX, Thierry BROCHART | |
 | Population Goals! | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Thirty55 Design | |
 | Wettop | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | SIMPLE THINK GAMES |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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