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Should I ship a Puzzle Platformer Automation game?
Automation + Puzzle Platformer
Only 11 developers shipped a Puzzle 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, The Lilliput Workshop, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 7 developers shipped in the last year and 11 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $538 (exactly $538) |
| Top 5% | $12k (exactly $12,225) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 11 |
| 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 20% on the market, supply 75% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, 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
- Puzzle 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, Puzzle Platformer
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 6 games average 62% positive over 128 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Automation with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + HorrorFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + UndergroundFair
- + Class-BasedFair
- + MiningFair
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + ProgrammingFair
- + FishingFair
- + Turn-Based TacticsFair
Comparable games
Linkito 2024 · $68k 
Star Stuff 2024 · $68k 
Ready, Steady, Ship! 2024 · $46k 
World of Contraptions 2022 · $27k 
Fantastic Contraption 2016 · $26k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Linkito | older | $14.99 | 152 87% | 4.6k | $68k (exactly $68,354) | Kalinarm |
| | Star Stuff | older | $14.99 | 151 99% | 4.5k | $68k (exactly $67,905) | Ánimo Games Studio |
| | Ready, Steady, Ship! | older | $14.99 | 103 66% | 3.1k | $46k (exactly $46,319) | Jollybits Games |
| | World of Contraptions | older | $9.99 | 89 86% | 2.7k | $27k (exactly $26,673) | JCP Games Studio |
| | Fantastic Contraption | older | $19.99 | 43 72% | 1.3k | $26k (exactly $25,787) | Northway Games, Radial Games Corp |
 | Fantastic Contraption Classic 1 & 2 | older | $9.99 | 78 97% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $23,377) | Northway Games |
 | Meet me at NooN | older | $9.99 | 55 100% | 1.7k | $16k (exactly $16,484) | Pandaroo Interactive |
 | The Lilliput Workshop | $7.99 | 51 88% | 1.5k | $12k (exactly $12,225) | Cotton Game | |
 | Threaded | older | $11.99 | 19 100% | 570 | $6.8k (exactly $6,834) | Tiny Little Lion |
 | Kanji Industry | · EA older | $6.99 | 26 92% | 780 | $5.5k (exactly $5,452) | Tsune Studio |
 | NEON | $0.99 | 61 37% | 1.8k | $1.8k (exactly $1,812) | Logna Blue | |
 | Pawn.OS() | $2.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Punic Code | |
 | Pixi Poxi Autorunner Lab | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Ghost Creative Studio | |
 | RE_ALLOC | $3.49 | 4 25% | 120 | $419 (exactly $419) | nomorevalid, yekbun | |
 | TAU-09 | $3.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | axsys_crash | |
 | Dragons and Nature | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Bing | |
 | The Herd | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Levelhead Interactive | |
 | Blendefine | $7.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 寰宇四象计划 | |
 | Puzzly | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | ggame |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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