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Should I ship an Auto Battler Shooter?
Shooter + Auto Battler
Only 17 developers shipped an Auto Battler 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, Abyss Kitchen, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 27 more are announced, ×2.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $480, ×0.8 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $210; 1 in 20 cleared $72k, ×116 the market median. Revenue is up 45% on the market; 27 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $210 (exactly $210) |
|---|---|
| Median | $479 (exactly $479) |
| Top 25% | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) |
| Top 5% | $73k (exactly $72,659) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 45 |
| Announced | 27 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 45% on the market, supply 45% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Shooter
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Auto Battler
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Shooter, Auto Battler; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Survival, Action Roguelike
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Anime, 2D, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 307 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $210. All of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 27 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dating SimFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + VampiresFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Match 3Fair
- + SnowFair
- + Boss RushFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + ArcadeLong shot
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
Comparable games
Abyss Kitchen 2026 · $73k 
最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect 2022 · $60k 
Spellshot 2023 · $23k 
The Wall Mustn't Fall 2023 · $9.4k 
Burst Hero 2023 · $6.9k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Abyss Kitchen | $11.99 | 202 89% | 6.1k | $73k (exactly $72,659) | Pico Games | |
| | 最后的仙门 The last Practice Sect | older | $3.99 | 504 53% | 15k | $60k (exactly $60,329) | 栖鸾工作室 |
| | Spellshot | older | $9.99 | 76 69% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $22,777) | Team Monumental |
| | The Wall Mustn't Fall | older | $4.99 | 63 88% | 1.9k | $9.4k (exactly $9,431) | CapsuleCollapse |
| | Burst Hero | older | $2.99 | 77 87% | 2.3k | $6.9k (exactly $6,907) | YaYa Game |
 | BBS (Bulletin Board System) Magica | $9.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | ねむねむおかき | |
 | Bad Egg | · EA older | $3.99 | 35 85% | 1.1k | $4.2k (exactly $4,190) | Blue Wizard Digital |
 | Zombie Survivors | older | $1.99 | 63 61% | 1.9k | $3.8k (exactly $3,761) | WubsGames |
 | Maku | $2.99 | 36 75% | 1.1k | $3.2k (exactly $3,229) | whelp | |
 | Shattered Dreams: that one time when all my applications got rejected, so I started my own company. My life became an idle / clicker game where I must increase all incremental values and squeeze my employees for every last bit of soul they have left. | older | $4.99 | 19 68% | 570 | $2.8k (exactly $2,844) | Rainy Parts |
 | Legendary Heroes Survivors | $2.99 | 28 85% | 840 | $2.5k (exactly $2,512) | Last Loop Studios | |
 | Anarchy Road | $5.99 | 6 50% | 180 | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) | Bunker Brothers LLC | |
 | Fiora | $4.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | ArcanaLord | |
 | Shattered Lands (破碎之地) | $6.99 | 4 25% | 120 | $839 (exactly $839) | VoidStudio | |
 | Relictor | · EA | $9.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | AIMTeam |
 | UnfAIr War: Survivors | $7.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | S Ludens DMCC | |
 | SPACEFIGHTER - The Bullet Hell | $2.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | Michał JARO Jarosiński |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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