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Should I ship an Archery Sports game?
Sports + Archery
Only 13 developers shipped an Archery Sports 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, Dorts : A Darts Roguelike, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced, ×4.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $120 against a market of $630. 14 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $119 (exactly $119) |
| Top 25% | $540 (exactly $540) |
| Top 5% | $6.2k (exactly $6,203) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 64 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 75% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 5%, 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
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Sports, Archery
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 84% positive over 38 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 14 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.7 per shipper.
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All-In-One Sports VR 2023 · $420k 
Holopoint 2016 · $226k 
VR SUPER SPORTS 2017 · $45k 
Survivor - Castaway Island 2023 · $40k 
Nock 2023 · $29k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | All-In-One Sports VR | older | $19.99 | 700 84% | 21k | $420k (exactly $419,790) | Appnori Inc. |
| | Holopoint | older | $10.99 | 686 89% | 21k | $226k (exactly $226,174) | Alzan Studios, LLC |
| | VR SUPER SPORTS | older | $12.99 | 115 56% | 3.5k | $45k (exactly $44,816) | SAT-BOX |
| | Survivor - Castaway Island | older | $24.99 | 53 37% | 1.6k | $40k (exactly $39,734) | Magic Pockets |
| | Nock | older | $19.99 | 49 87% | 1.5k | $29k (exactly $29,385) | Normal |
 | Presentiment of Death | older | $14.99 | 45 71% | 1.4k | $20k (exactly $20,236) | XOCUS |
 | Cricket Through the Ages | older | $7.99 | 70 91% | 2.1k | $17k (exactly $16,779) | Free Lives |
 | Super Space Pug | older | $1.99 | 185 55% | 5.6k | $11k (exactly $11,044) | Digital Dawn Studios |
 | Probably Archery | older | $2.99 | 119 48% | 3.6k | $11k (exactly $10,674) | South East Games |
 | Hunting Unlimited 1 | older | $9.99 | 32 81% | 960 | $9.6k (exactly $9,590) | SCS Software |
 | Dorts : A Darts Roguelike | $8.99 | 23 100% | 690 | $6.2k (exactly $6,203) | MovingPixels | |
 | Accolade Sports Collection (QUByte Classics) | $19.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $2.4k (exactly $2,399) | QUByte Interactive | |
 | Bow Course - Archery Golf | · EA | $11.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $719 (exactly $719) | Korpi Games Oy |
 | Cosmic Star Lounge | $17.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $540 (exactly $540) | Bax Digital GmbH | |
 | Smoots Summer Games II | $12.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $390 (exactly $390) | Kaneda Games | |
 | 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 | |
 | magic ball | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | AA Mini Games Studio | |
 | BraceUp VR | $16.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Virtual Software House |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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