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Should I ship an Archery Arena Shooter?
Arena Shooter + Archery
Only 9 developers shipped an Archery Arena Shooter 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, Ancestral Players, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced, ×2.8 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 $300 against a market of $630. 11 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $600 (exactly $600) |
| Top 5% | $1.8k (exactly $1,755) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.85 |
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 645% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 20%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Arena Shooter
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Archery
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Arena Shooter, Archery
- Price point
- $5.85 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 $5.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 1,738 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. 11 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Arena Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + IncrementalFair
- + DemonsFair
- + 2D PlatformerFair
- + Multiple EndingsFair
- + CollectathonLong shot
- + DeckbuildingPoor odds
- + Bullet HeavenPoor odds
- + Class-BasedPoor odds
- + Boomer ShooterPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + On-Rails ShooterPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
Comparable games
Project Sparrow 2022 · EA · $320k 
QuiVr 2018 · $289k 
Nock 2023 · $29k 
Keep Defending 2017 · $3.8k 
Jogward 2021 · $3.3k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Project Sparrow | · EA older | $9.99 | 1,067 88% | 32k | $320k (exactly $319,780) | Inspire Game Studios |
| | QuiVr | older | $19.99 | 482 88% | 14k | $289k (exactly $289,055) | Blueteak |
| | Nock | older | $19.99 | 49 87% | 1.5k | $29k (exactly $29,385) | Normal |
| | Keep Defending | older | $2.99 | 42 88% | 1.3k | $3.8k (exactly $3,767) | Faster Time Games |
| | Jogward | older | $2.99 | 37 94% | 1.1k | $3.3k (exactly $3,319) | MorkPuncher |
 | Hentai ヘンタイ - C-GUM VACCINATION | older | $7.99 | 11 9% | 330 | $2.6k (exactly $2,637) | Ero Team Triangle |
 | Tiny Archers VR | older | $19.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $2.4k (exactly $2,399) | 1DER Entertainment |
 | Frisbee For Fun | older | $3.99 | 20 90% | 600 | $2.4k (exactly $2,394) | Caio Flavio |
 | Wolf Attack | older | $9.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | TOMATOVR |
 | Dangerous Lands | older | $2.99 | 20 70% | 600 | $1.8k (exactly $1,794) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Ancestral Players | · EA | $5.85 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.8k (exactly $1,755) | ENSLIP |
 | Stickforge | $4.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Noldo | |
 | Survivors Dawn: Zombie World | $19.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $600 (exactly $600) | Uygar Bursalıoğlu | |
 | GunBang | $3.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | 4Tins Studios | |
 | Accurate Adjacent Ballistics Simulator | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | MagusForge | |
 | Medieval Archer Simulator | · EA | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Hard Shark Games |
 | Tower Defense: Goblin Wars | $0.99 | 4 25% | 120 | $119 (exactly $119) | Yusuf Islam Seyhan, Samet Acar | |
 | BraceUp VR | $16.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Virtual Software House | |
 | Invisible Archery | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Darksody |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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