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Should I ship a Crime Bullet Hell?
Bullet Hell + Crime
Only 11 developers shipped a Crime Bullet Hell 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, Karate Survivor, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $480, ×0.8 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $440k, ×714 the market median. Revenue is down 80% on the market; 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $480 (exactly $480) |
| Top 25% | $9.0k (exactly $8,997) |
| Top 5% | $449k (exactly $448,651) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 80% on the market, supply 30% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Bullet Hell
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Crime
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Bullet Hell
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 3,460 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 8 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Bullet Hell with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SuperheroStrong odds
- + FaithFair
- + VampiresFair
- + Creature CollectorFair
- + Strategy RPGFair
- + PiratesFair
- + CatsFair
- + HackingFair
- + Time ManagementFair
- + Card BattlerFair
- + DemonsFair
- + Naval CombatFair
Comparable games
Karate Survivor 2024 · $449k 
BEHEMOTH 2024 · $49k 
Yurukill: The Calumniation Games 2022 · $38k 
Super Ledgehop: Double Laser 2018 · $22k 
Mr. Fast 2020 · $16k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Karate Survivor | $4.99 | 2,997 85% | 90k | $449k (exactly $448,651) | Alawar | |
| | BEHEMOTH | $3.99 | 412 88% | 12k | $49k (exactly $49,316) | The Behemoth | |
| | Yurukill: The Calumniation Games | older | $19.99 | 64 76% | 1.9k | $38k (exactly $38,381) | IzanagiGames, G.rev Ltd., ESQUADRA,inc. |
| | Super Ledgehop: Double Laser | older | $0.99 | 744 96% | 22k | $22k (exactly $22,097) | LAME Dimension |
| | Mr. Fast | older | $4.99 | 105 79% | 3.2k | $16k (exactly $15,718) | ZHANG FAN |
 | TwinCop | older | $14.99 | 28 89% | 840 | $13k (exactly $12,592) | Finite Reflection Studios |
 | Super Space Pug | older | $1.99 | 185 55% | 5.6k | $11k (exactly $11,044) | Digital Dawn Studios |
 | TYRONE SOULZ | older | $1.95 | 178 86% | 5.3k | $10k (exactly $10,413) | Team SNEED |
 | PIZZA WESTERN 🍕 | $29.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $9.0k (exactly $8,997) | Lola Fisher | |
 | Bloody Rampage City | older | $4.99 | 37 70% | 1.1k | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) | Crimson Chaos Studios |
 | The Shape Killer - Sniper Game | $4.99 | 23 86% | 690 | $3.4k (exactly $3,443) | SouthBoxStudio | |
 | Blaster Bunny Redemption | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Powergames1142 | |
 | Snake Eyes | $2.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $718 (exactly $718) | Jake Slutzky, Amber Cardamone | |
 | Cartel | $15.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $480 (exactly $480) | ren studios | |
 | Blaster Bunny Sacrilege | $7.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | Powergames1142 | |
 | Nephew's Vendetta | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Colossus Game Studio | |
 | Clippy Commando | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Daniel Harnden |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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