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Should I ship a Beat 'em up Looter Shooter?
Looter Shooter + Beat 'em up
Only 12 developers shipped a Beat 'em up Looter 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, Deadtime Defenders, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×4.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 8 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $150 against a market of $1.5k. 17 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 25% | $419 (exactly $419) |
| Top 5% | $14k (exactly $14,386) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 41 |
| Announced | 17 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 260% on the market, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Looter Shooter
- effort 8 / 10 · low · online co-op and a loot economy on top of a shooter
- Beat 'em up
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Looter Shooter, Beat 'em up
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 70% positive over 85 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Looter Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + MechsFair
- + Vehicular CombatFair
- + IdlerFair
- + 3D PlatformerLong shot
- + Extraction ShooterPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Twin Stick ShooterPoor odds
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + Inventory ManagementPoor odds
Comparable games
DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION 2023 · $1.1M 
Alien Shooter 2009 · $587k 
Black Gunner Wukong 2024 · $125k 
Crazy Flasher Series 2021 2021 · $77k 
Cyber Avenger 2024 · $51k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION | older | $2.99 | 12,437 94% | 373k | $1.1M (exactly $1,115,599) | Agafonoff |
| | Alien Shooter | older | $4.99 | 3,919 95% | 118k | $587k (exactly $586,674) | Sigma Team Inc. |
| | Black Gunner Wukong | older | $9.99 | 417 98% | 13k | $125k (exactly $124,975) | Wukong |
| | Crazy Flasher Series 2021 | older | $0.99 | 2,601 88% | 78k | $77k (exactly $77,250) | Andy Law |
| | Cyber Avenger | older | $12.99 | 131 87% | 3.9k | $51k (exactly $51,051) | Quacky Games |
 | Deadtime Defenders | $9.99 | 48 79% | 1.4k | $14k (exactly $14,386) | Arcane Embers | |
 | Apocalypse Survivors | $8.99 | 26 57% | 780 | $7.0k (exactly $7,012) | The Last One | |
 | The Killer | older | $19.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $3.0k (exactly $2,998) | GamesBraz |
 | Yoshimitsu Hatsumi | older | $4.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $2.1k (exactly $2,096) | Amvrella |
 | Doug's Nightmare | older | $4.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) | Undev Games |
 | Stickman Physics Battle Arena | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | Kyle Hawks | |
 | Soul Machine | $4.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Zanarka Studio | |
 | QUICKN | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | g_sholar | |
 | Silent Survivor: Under The Crisis | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Silent Dream | |
 | Slums: DriveBy | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Urban Bear Studio | |
 | SolicitorZ | $0.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | Beem Studio | |
 | Smogshadow Hunter | $0.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | AA Mini Games Studio | |
 | ARO dangerous campaign | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Alexander Sevastianov |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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