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Should I ship a Gun Customization Building game?
Gun Customization + Building
Only 13 developers shipped a Gun Customization Building 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, Ultimate Zombie Defense 2, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 39 more are announced, ×6.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $16k, ×26 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.1k; 1 in 20 cleared $170k, ×281 the market median. Revenue is down 90% on the market; 39 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) |
|---|---|
| Median | $16k (exactly $16,184) |
| Top 25% | $51k (exactly $51,249) |
| Top 5% | $177k (exactly $176,523) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 49 |
| Announced | 39 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 down 90% on the market, supply 15% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Gun Customization
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Building
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Gun Customization, Building
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 71% positive over 1,213 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.1k. 6 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 39 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Gun Customization with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Immersive SimPoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Resource ManagementPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
Comparable games
Brick Rigs 2023 · $32M 
From the Depths 2020 · $8.3M 
Sprocket 2021 · EA · $7.4M 
NavalArt 2018 · EA · $1.4M 
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ISEKAI Chronicles 2024 · $441k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Brick Rigs | older | $19.99 | 53,749 95% | 1.6M | $32M (exactly $32,233,275) | Fluppisoft GmbH |
| | From the Depths | older | $24.99 | 11,059 89% | 332k | $8.3M (exactly $8,290,932) | Brilliant Skies Ltd. |
| | Sprocket | · EA older | $19.99 | 12,336 92% | 370k | $7.4M (exactly $7,397,899) | Hamish Dunn |
| | NavalArt | · EA older | $19.99 | 2,362 90% | 71k | $1.4M (exactly $1,416,491) | Rigidbody |
| | That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ISEKAI Chronicles | older | $49.99 | 294 52% | 8.8k | $441k (exactly $440,912) | ZOC Co.,Ltd. |
 | Rise of Gun | older | $12.99 | 1,094 84% | 33k | $426k (exactly $426,332) | PimpGameStudio |
 | Ultimate Zombie Defense 2 | $9.99 | 589 76% | 18k | $177k (exactly $176,523) | Terror Dog Studio | |
 | Weapons Genius | older | $5.99 | 475 53% | 14k | $85k (exactly $85,358) | JDM4iK, Droid Riot |
 | Gun Factory Simulator | · EA | $14.99 | 162 62% | 4.9k | $73k (exactly $72,851) | Broken Clock |
 | 5089: The Action RPG | older | $7.99 | 299 82% | 9.0k | $72k (exactly $71,670) | Phr00t's Software |
 | Territory Control 2 | · EA | $19.99 | 92 77% | 2.8k | $55k (exactly $55,172) | TFlippy, Knorrepot |
 | Decision Legacy Collection | $9.99 | 171 83% | 5.1k | $51k (exactly $51,249) | FlyAnvil | |
 | Crazy Islands | $13.99 | 73 68% | 2.2k | $31k (exactly $30,638) | Ge-Aivan | |
 | Blacksmith Simulator | $15.99 | 49 32% | 1.5k | $24k (exactly $23,505) | Potato Games | |
 | Gun Center Simulator | $9.99 | 54 33% | 1.6k | $16k (exactly $16,184) | Digital Melody | |
 | Turbotz Testing 20XX | $4.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | Zed-ex | |
 | Ashes of Ambition | $6.99 | 7 28% | 210 | $1.5k (exactly $1,468) | HiddenGem Studio | |
 | Palland: Creature Tamer World | $5.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) | BoggySoft |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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