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Should I ship a Platformer Archery game?
Archery + Platformer
Only 13 developers shipped a Platformer Archery 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, Shady Knight, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×3.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.4k, ×5.0 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $750; 1 in 20 cleared $530k, ×1134 the market median. Revenue is up 1010% on the market; 19 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $748 (exactly $748) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.4k (exactly $2,395) |
| Top 25% | $15k (exactly $14,840) |
| Top 5% | $539k (exactly $538,531) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 45 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 1010% on the market, supply 15% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Archery
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Archery, Platformer; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Hack and Slash, 3D Platformer
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, Colorful, Linear
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 3,007 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $750. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Archery with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Top-Down ShooterFair
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
- + HuntingPoor odds
- + NaturePoor odds
- + Action RPGPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + RoguelikePoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
- + CombatPoor odds
Comparable games
TowerFall Ascension 2014 · $1.3M 
Shady Knight 2024 · $539k 
Twin Shot Deluxe 2026 · $350k 
Zad Archery 2026 · $168k 
Dark Water : Slime Invader 2021 · $62k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | TowerFall Ascension | older | $14.99 | 2,942 95% | 88k | $1.3M (exactly $1,323,017) | Maddy Makes Games Inc., Extremely OK Ga… (Maddy Makes Games Inc., Extremely OK Games, Ltd.) |
| | Shady Knight | $19.99 | 898 93% | 27k | $539k (exactly $538,531) | Alexey 'cptnsigh' | |
| | Twin Shot Deluxe | $9.99 | 1,167 95% | 35k | $350k (exactly $349,750) | Nitrome Limited | |
| | Zad Archery | $6.99 | 803 73% | 24k | $168k (exactly $168,389) | Samharia Studios | |
| | Dark Water : Slime Invader | older | $14.99 | 138 94% | 4.1k | $62k (exactly $62,059) | DEVBOX |
 | Tinboy | older | $4.99 | 231 64% | 6.9k | $35k (exactly $34,581) | Interactive Stone |
 | Presentiment of Death | older | $14.99 | 45 71% | 1.4k | $20k (exactly $20,236) | XOCUS |
 | ADVERSE | older | $5.99 | 97 79% | 2.9k | $17k (exactly $17,431) | Loneminded |
 | ArcSine | older | $24.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $16k (exactly $15,744) | Prop Logic |
 | Mythrealm | · EA | $14.99 | 33 87% | 990 | $15k (exactly $14,840) | Delta Video Games |
 | the Shadow of Swallow | $3.99 | 30 76% | 900 | $3.6k (exactly $3,591) | Raine Studio | |
 | Tales of Isenberg | $2.99 | 36 100% | 1.1k | $3.2k (exactly $3,229) | Madarász András, Varga David | |
 | Arrows and Antiquity | $4.99 | 16 87% | 480 | $2.4k (exactly $2,395) | True Neutral Studios | |
 | Arrow Survival: 15 Seconds | $2.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) | Low Pixel Byte | |
 | Shiny Stones | $4.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Verbal Chambers | |
 | Stickforge | $4.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Noldo |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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