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Should I ship a Sniper Arena Shooter?
Arena Shooter + Sniper
Only 12 developers shipped a Sniper 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, Gun Reflex VR, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×3.8 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. 15 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $3.2k (exactly $3,238) |
| Top 5% | $11k (exactly $11,327) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 48 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 220% on the market, supply 50% fewer 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.
- Arena Shooter
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Sniper
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Arena Shooter, Sniper
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 73% positive over 100 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 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
Ratz Instagib 2016 · $682k 
Masked Shooters 2 2016 · $556k 
Oblivity - Find your perfect Sensitivity 2022 · $437k 
Murder Miners 2014 · $356k 
Project Sparrow 2022 · EA · $320k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ratz Instagib | older | $8.99 | 2,529 90% | 76k | $682k (exactly $682,071) | Lino Slahuschek |
| | Masked Shooters 2 | older | $29.99 | 618 75% | 19k | $556k (exactly $556,015) | Nightbinder |
| | Oblivity - Find your perfect Sensitivity | older | $9.99 | 1,457 81% | 44k | $437k (exactly $436,663) | Poly Games |
| | Murder Miners | older | $2.99 | 3,965 87% | 119k | $356k (exactly $355,660) | JForce Games |
| | Project Sparrow | · EA older | $9.99 | 1,067 88% | 32k | $320k (exactly $319,780) | Inspire Game Studios |
 | Zombie Training Simulator | older | $19.99 | 227 92% | 6.8k | $136k (exactly $136,132) | Acceleroto, Inc. |
 | Masked Forces | older | $4.99 | 432 67% | 13k | $65k (exactly $64,670) | Nightbinder |
 | Masked Forces: Zombie Survival | older | $4.99 | 359 70% | 11k | $54k (exactly $53,742) | Nightbinder |
 | Project RIP | older | $13.99 | 121 61% | 3.6k | $51k (exactly $50,784) | Storming Tech |
 | False Front | older | $8.99 | 80 82% | 2.4k | $22k (exactly $21,576) | Svantech Studios |
 | Gun Reflex VR | $8.99 | 42 61% | 1.3k | $11k (exactly $11,327) | OBGames | |
 | Moorhuhn 2 | $4.99 | 31 96% | 930 | $4.6k (exactly $4,641) | Higgs Games GmbH, GeekPit Studio | |
 | WARRIORS | · EA | $17.99 | 6 0% | 180 | $3.2k (exactly $3,238) | BAKROS DYNAMICS |
 | Bedroom Battlegrounds | $9.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | WCHC | |
 | Sticks & Strings | $2.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Y-Axis Games LLC | |
 | 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 |
 | Lucky Pikinini - Advanced Killer Cyborg | $1.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | Lucky Pikinini | |
 | Turn Back The Powers Of Darkness | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | 优博学智能科技 | |
 | ZeLastTank : Battle Royale | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Ysn-production |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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