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Looter Shooter + Boomer Shooter
Of 29 developers who shipped a Boomer Shooter Looter Shooter 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.. 27 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 8 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $350 in the last 2 years and $350 over 4, against a market of $1.5k for a 8 / 10 build. 14 developers shipped in the last year and 27 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $345 (exactly $345) |
| Top 25% | $9.0k (exactly $8,997) |
| Top 5% | $738k (exactly $737,705) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 29 |
| Released games | 42 |
| Announced | 27 |
| 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 215% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 12%, 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
- Boomer Shooter
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Looter Shooter, Boomer Shooter; 9 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, FPS, Shooter
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Stylized, First-Person, Atmospheric
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 3,718 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 16 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 27 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year.
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
Nightmare Reaper 2022 · $2.5M 
ROBOBEAT 2024 · $1.0M 
Vampire Hunters 2024 · $873k 
Battle Shapers 2024 · $738k 
Holy Shoot 2025 · $104k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Nightmare Reaper | older | $24.99 | 3,394 93% | 102k | $2.5M (exactly $2,544,482) | Blazing Bit Games |
| | ROBOBEAT | older | $19.99 | 1,708 94% | 51k | $1.0M (exactly $1,024,288) | Simon Fredholm |
| | Vampire Hunters | $14.99 | 1,941 89% | 58k | $873k (exactly $872,868) | Gamecraft Studios | |
| | Battle Shapers | $24.99 | 984 80% | 30k | $738k (exactly $737,705) | Metric Empire | |
| | Holy Shoot | $12.99 | 267 78% | 8.0k | $104k (exactly $104,050) | Tale Era Interactive | |
 | AFTERBLAST | · EA | $14.99 | 223 76% | 6.7k | $100k (exactly $100,283) | Lumino Games |
 | UNYIELDER | $24.99 | 117 62% | 3.5k | $88k (exactly $87,715) | TrueWorld Studios | |
 | Second Sun | $19.99 | 115 69% | 3.5k | $69k (exactly $68,966) | Grey Wolf Entertainment | |
 | Tale of the Bullet Knight | · EA | $15.99 | 21 95% | 630 | $10k (exactly $10,074) | JAKALWIZARDSTUDIO |
 | PIZZA WESTERN 🍕 | $29.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $9.0k (exactly $8,997) | Lola Fisher | |
 | Ash & Adam's GOBSMACKED | $4.99 | 37 86% | 1.1k | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) | Ash & Adam's Games | |
 | Under Destruction | · EA | $18.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.7k (exactly $1,709) | Quantum Dynamics |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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