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Should I ship an Alternate-History Puzzle Platformer?
Puzzle Platformer + Alternate History
Only 10 developers shipped an Alternate-History Puzzle Platformer 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, 烧尾宴, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 43 more are announced, ×7.2 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 $360 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 43 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $358 (exactly $358) |
| Top 25% | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 5% | $14k (exactly $14,024) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 56 |
| Announced | 43 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 80% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 25%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Puzzle Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Alternate History
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Puzzle Platformer
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 85% positive over 94 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 7 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 43 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Puzzle Platformer with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RomanceFair
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + Life SimFair
- + SimulationFair
- + Grid-Based MovementFair
- + SokobanFair
- + LovecraftianPoor odds
- + Co-op CampaignPoor odds
- + MetroidvaniaPoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + Split ScreenPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
Comparable games
7th Sector 2019 · $212k 
Lifeless Moon 2023 · $100k 
Mr. Pumpkin 2: Kowloon walled city 2019 · $94k 
Time Loader 2021 · $93k 
Treasures of the Aegean 2021 · $49k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 7th Sector | older | $10.99 | 643 72% | 19k | $212k (exactly $211,997) | Носков Сергей |
| | Lifeless Moon | older | $12.99 | 256 78% | 7.7k | $100k (exactly $99,763) | Serenity Forge |
| | Mr. Pumpkin 2: Kowloon walled city | older | $5.99 | 522 91% | 16k | $94k (exactly $93,803) | Cotton Game |
| | Time Loader | older | $7.99 | 387 83% | 12k | $93k (exactly $92,764) | Flazm |
| | Treasures of the Aegean | older | $19.99 | 82 86% | 2.5k | $49k (exactly $49,175) | Undercoders |
 | Aztech Forgotten Gods | older | $29.99 | 50 66% | 1.5k | $45k (exactly $44,985) | Lienzo |
 | Joe Wander and the Enigmatic Adventures | older | $29.99 | 48 79% | 1.4k | $43k (exactly $43,186) | Frozen Pixel |
 | AtmaSphere 2 | older | $4.99 | 146 79% | 4.4k | $22k (exactly $21,856) | Mazen Games |
 | Mozart Requiem | older | $29.99 | 16 43% | 480 | $14k (exactly $14,395) | Hoplite Research LLC |
 | 烧尾宴 | $8.99 | 52 75% | 1.6k | $14k (exactly $14,024) | 有点正经 | |
 | Signal Maze | $14.99 | 24 95% | 720 | $11k (exactly $10,793) | theArkitect | |
 | Kano. Stone islands. | $2.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | Sirotkin Aleksandr | |
 | Berserker 2: The Saga of Hilde | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | One Life Games | |
 | PlanckMan | $1.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $358 (exactly $358) | bl3i | |
 | Devour the Elixir | $1.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $239 (exactly $239) | 泉游工作室 | |
 | Pizza Rogue: P.P.M.P.D.E.S. | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Seaweaver, Snowifer | |
 | Tempus Umbra | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Jabsz Studios |
 | 盗梦诡探：神鬼出游 | $2.00 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 猎奇的面具猫 | |
 | Pointer Manual | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 川月瑰奇 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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