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Should I ship a Platformer Automation game?
Automation + Platformer
Only 13 developers shipped a Platformer Automation 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, Kentum, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450, ×0.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $50. Revenue is up 325095% on the market; 16 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $5.1k (exactly $5,066) |
| Top 5% | $93k (exactly $92,828) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 16 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 125% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Automation
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Platformer
- 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
- Automation, Platformer; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Adventure, Base Building
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $17.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, Colorful, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $17.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 8 games average 71% positive over 454 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Automation with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Job SimulatorStrong odds
- + Female ProtagonistStrong odds
- + Open World Survival CraftFair
- + HorrorFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + UndergroundFair
- + Class-BasedFair
- + MiningFair
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + ProgrammingFair
- + FishingFair
- + Turn-Based TacticsFair
Comparable games
PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy 2015 · $242k 
Kentum 2025 · $93k 
Bots Are Stupid 2022 · $63k 
Tap Heroes 2015 · $36k 
Erotic Clicker 2026 · $25k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | PixelJunk™ Nom Nom Galaxy | older | $9.99 | 808 77% | 24k | $242k (exactly $242,158) | Q-Games Ltd. |
| | Kentum | $17.99 | 172 75% | 5.2k | $93k (exactly $92,828) | Tlön Industries | |
| | Bots Are Stupid | older | $12.99 | 161 77% | 4.8k | $63k (exactly $62,742) | Leander Edler-Golla |
| | Tap Heroes | older | $2.99 | 402 67% | 12k | $36k (exactly $36,059) | VaragtP |
| | Erotic Clicker | $5.99 | 141 71% | 4.2k | $25k (exactly $25,338) | Ero Echo Studio | |
 | Minicology | older | $14.99 | 53 64% | 1.6k | $24k (exactly $23,834) | Isaac Denner |
 | Meet me at NooN | older | $9.99 | 55 100% | 1.7k | $16k (exactly $16,484) | Pandaroo Interactive |
 | AI Faith: Compute [>_AIFC] | $4.99 | 55 81% | 1.7k | $8.2k (exactly $8,234) | Beneloop.ai | |
 | Buff Knight Advanced | older | $2.99 | 65 70% | 2.0k | $5.8k (exactly $5,830) | Buff Studio Co.,Ltd. |
 | Capri Care | · EA | $12.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $5.1k (exactly $5,066) | Jdfskitz, Kiyoshirei, Dark_KissQ121 |
 | NEON | $0.99 | 61 37% | 1.8k | $1.8k (exactly $1,812) | Logna Blue | |
 | ScreenSaver Battle | $2.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $718 (exactly $718) | MFC STUDIO, KOSEI YASUDA | |
 | Pixi Poxi Autorunner Lab | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Ghost Creative Studio | |
 | IFCATWORKFORME | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | ELECHEART | |
 | The Herd | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Levelhead Interactive | |
 | HAPPY RUNNER | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Bogosor Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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