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Should I ship a Shoot 'Em Up Automation game?
Automation + Shoot 'Em Up
Only 14 developers shipped a Shoot 'Em Up 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, Around The Core, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 7 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 9 developers shipped in the last year and 7 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $59 (exactly $59) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 5% | $11k (exactly $11,372) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 7 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 805% on the market, supply 80% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, 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
- Shoot 'Em Up
- 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, Shoot 'Em Up
- Price point
- $3.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 152 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $59. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 7 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
Dead Unending 2023 · $32k 
Around The Core 2026 · $11k 
Morbid Inhale 2024 · $8.1k 
Dr. Professor Scientist's Weapons Testing Facility 2022 · $7.2k 
Miracle Brave 2026 · $6.5k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dead Unending | older | $9.99 | 108 41% | 3.2k | $32k (exactly $32,368) | Tyler Hudson |
| | Around The Core | $3.99 | 95 86% | 2.9k | $11k (exactly $11,372) | draftentropy | |
| | Morbid Inhale | older | $9.99 | 27 81% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | Vokeev |
| | Dr. Professor Scientist's Weapons Testing Facility | older | $4.99 | 48 77% | 1.4k | $7.2k (exactly $7,186) | Cool Smithy Games |
| | Miracle Brave | $6.60 | 33 78% | 990 | $6.5k (exactly $6,534) | 1029studio | |
 | Legend of Feather | · EA older | $3.99 | 36 75% | 1.1k | $4.3k (exactly $4,309) | Planescape Game Studio |
 | Hardwork Simulator | older | $1.99 | 36 94% | 1.1k | $2.1k (exactly $2,149) | Mandinga |
 | Last Gang Standing | · EA older | $10.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $1.6k (exactly $1,648) | Tailfin Games |
 | Pegasis Odyssey | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Cokwak | |
 | Starshot Idle | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | jake o'reilly | |
 | Stars And Empires: Colony Defense | $14.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Elemental Legion | |
 | Corner Clash | $4.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Ape Blues | |
 | SynthetiCell BioClicker | $2.99 | 5 0% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | furiousDevPhoenix | |
 | Sidebar Starship | $3.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | 初心者工作室 | |
 | GPU Inferno | $0.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | Moriba | |
 | Molodoy Simulator | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Erich Meurer |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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