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Should I ship a Billiards Strategy game?
Strategy + Billiards
Of 26 developers who shipped a Billiards Strategy game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 25 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $540, ×0.9 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $180. Revenue is up 80% on the market; 25 games are announced against 16 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $180 (exactly $180) |
|---|---|
| Median | $538 (exactly $538) |
| Top 25% | $3.2k (exactly $3,235) |
| Top 5% | $109k (exactly $109,277) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 26 |
| Released games | 55 |
| Announced | 25 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 80% on the market, supply 45% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Strategy, Billiards; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Physics, Roguelike, Arcade
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Colorful, 2D, Cartoony
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 914 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 9 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 25 games are announced against 16 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Strategy with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Who's Your Daddy?! 2016 · $7.7M 
Sports Bar VR 2016 · $470k 
Pool Nation 2013 · $463k 
Flick Shot Rogues 2025 · $133k 
Drop Pockets 2025 · EA · $109k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Who's Your Daddy?! | older | $9.99 | 25,797 80% | 774k | $7.7M (exactly $7,731,361) | Evil Tortilla Games |
| | Sports Bar VR | older | $19.99 | 784 83% | 24k | $470k (exactly $470,165) | Cherry Pop Games, Perilous Orbit |
| | Pool Nation | older | $6.99 | 2,208 89% | 66k | $463k (exactly $463,018) | Cherry Pop Games |
| | Flick Shot Rogues | $14.99 | 295 87% | 8.9k | $133k (exactly $132,662) | Butter By The Fish | |
| | Drop Pockets | · EA | $14.99 | 243 83% | 7.3k | $109k (exactly $109,277) | Children of Madness |
 | Ultrapool | $11.99 | 265 88% | 8.0k | $95k (exactly $95,320) | Icedrop Games | |
 | Rack and Slay | older | $5.99 | 516 91% | 15k | $93k (exactly $92,725) | Ludokultur |
 | Snooker Nation Championship | · EA older | $3.99 | 308 62% | 9.2k | $37k (exactly $36,868) | Cherry Pop Games |
 | ForeVR Pool VR | older | $19.99 | 33 57% | 990 | $20k (exactly $19,790) | ForeVR Games Inc |
 | Ringer | $9.99 | 27 81% | 810 | $8.1k (exactly $8,092) | Ideas Per Second | |
 | Dorts : A Darts Roguelike | $8.99 | 23 100% | 690 | $6.2k (exactly $6,203) | MovingPixels | |
 | Glass Cannon | $4.99 | 29 89% | 870 | $4.3k (exactly $4,341) | LisiSoft | |
 | Crazy Robot Ball | $5.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $3.2k (exactly $3,235) | Blue Band Studio | |
 | Biida-Bash | $6.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) | Silver Thumb Games | |
 | Snooker Billiard | $24.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $1.5k (exactly $1,499) | DotStudio | |
 | Disc Dungeon | $9.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Fire Titan Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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