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Should I ship an Arcade God Game?
God Game + Arcade
Only 17 developers shipped an Arcade God 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, Mutant Football League 2, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced.
Verdict: long shot, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $390, ×0.6 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, but 1 in 20 cleared $100k, ×161 the market median. Revenue is up 1520% on the market; 20 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $390 (exactly $390) |
| Top 25% | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) |
| Top 5% | $101k (exactly $101,210) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 78 |
| Announced | 20 |
| 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 1520% on the market, supply 140% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, 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
- God Game, Arcade; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Idler, Incremental
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Colorful, Minimalist
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 821 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. All of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
God Game with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + HistoricalFair
- + EconomyFair
- + PuzzleFair
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + DestructionFair
- + DystopianFair
- + IdlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Farming SimLong shot
- + AgricultureLong shot
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Tower DefensePoor odds
Comparable games
Darwinia 2005 · $281k 
Mutant Football League 2017 · $206k 
Mutant Football League 2 2025 · $101k 
FEED THE AI 2026 · $100k 
Creatura 2021 · $96k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Darwinia | older | $11.99 | 781 78% | 23k | $281k (exactly $280,926) | Introversion Software |
| | Mutant Football League | older | $9.99 | 689 93% | 21k | $206k (exactly $206,493) | Digital Dreams Entertainment |
| | Mutant Football League 2 | $24.99 | 135 73% | 4.1k | $101k (exactly $101,210) | Digital Dreams Entertainment | |
| | FEED THE AI | $5.99 | 557 90% | 17k | $100k (exactly $100,093) | Weird Kid Games | |
| | Creatura | older | $14.99 | 214 67% | 6.4k | $96k (exactly $96,236) | Koksny.com |
 | Last Light | older | $15.99 | 161 81% | 4.8k | $77k (exactly $77,232) | Team Corn Field |
 | The Odyssey: Winds of Athena | older | $4.99 | 471 63% | 14k | $71k (exactly $70,509) | Liquid Dragon Studios |
 | TYRONE vs COPS | older | $0.99 | 2,201 94% | 66k | $65k (exactly $65,370) | Team SNEED |
 | Hole Dweller | older | $7.99 | 260 96% | 7.8k | $62k (exactly $62,322) | Thigh High Games |
 | BoomTown! Deluxe | older | $5.99 | 196 84% | 5.9k | $35k (exactly $35,221) | Ish Games |
 | Soulbound Roguelike | $9.99 | 34 82% | 1.0k | $10k (exactly $10,190) | DuDu Games | |
 | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Tyrant God | $3.99 | 42 61% | 1.3k | $5.0k (exactly $5,027) | Tyrant | |
 | The Big Number | $3.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | vacp | |
 | Stellar Industrialist | $2.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $1.6k (exactly $1,615) | PcZ Games | |
 | Outer Space Bar | $8.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | OZNA STUDIO | |
 | ClickRush | · EA | $2.99 | 9 66% | 270 | $807 (exactly $807) | Broussen Games |
 | Air Traffic Control | $12.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $390 (exactly $390) | Urban Isotope | |
 | Eternal Survival | $1.43 | 7 85% | 210 | $300 (exactly $300) | Crazy Circuit Games Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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