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Should I ship a Bullet Hell Vehicular Combat game?
Vehicular Combat + Bullet Hell
Of 57 developers who shipped a Bullet Hell Vehicular Combat 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.. 109 more are announced, ×2.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300, ×0.5 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120. 109 games are announced against 38 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.9 per shipper, while revenue is up 90% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $2.4k (exactly $2,388) |
| Top 5% | $26k (exactly $25,720) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 57 |
| Released games | 147 |
| Announced | 109 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 90% on the market, supply 100% more 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.
- Vehicular Combat
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Bullet Hell
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Vehicular Combat, Bullet Hell; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Shooter, Action Roguelike
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Pixel Graphics, Top-Down
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 2,685 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 21 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 109 games are announced against 38 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Vehicular Combat with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Looter ShooterFair
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Real Time TacticsPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
Comparable games
TerraTech Legion 2026 · $632k 
Disassembly 3D 2017 · $278k 
Titan Attacks! 2012 · $196k 
Wee Tanks! 2023 · $164k 
Aggressor 2021 · EA · $103k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | TerraTech Legion | $9.99 | 2,109 81% | 63k | $632k (exactly $632,067) | Payload Studios | |
| | Disassembly 3D | older | $29.99 | 309 81% | 9.3k | $278k (exactly $278,007) | Khor Chin Heong |
| | Titan Attacks! | older | $9.99 | 654 92% | 20k | $196k (exactly $196,004) | Puppygames |
| | Wee Tanks! | older | $9.99 | 548 90% | 16k | $164k (exactly $164,236) | Studio Kit |
| | Aggressor | · EA older | $19.99 | 172 61% | 5.2k | $103k (exactly $103,148) | Flashpoint Studios |
 | Raiden Legacy - Steam Edition | older | $9.99 | 259 54% | 7.8k | $78k (exactly $77,622) | Dotemu |
 | Beach Invasion 1945 - Pacific | older | $9.99 | 255 78% | 7.7k | $76k (exactly $76,424) | AIx2 Games |
 | Motordoom | older | $13.99 | 174 94% | 5.2k | $73k (exactly $73,028) | Hobo Cat Games |
 | Gearshifters | older | $24.99 | 85 80% | 2.6k | $64k (exactly $63,724) | Red Phantom Games |
 | Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition | older | $2.99 | 494 75% | 15k | $44k (exactly $44,312) | Scott Host |
 | Driveloop: Survivors | · EA | $9.99 | 96 76% | 2.9k | $29k (exactly $28,771) | Stunbyte |
 | Gunboat God | $12.99 | 66 90% | 2.0k | $26k (exactly $25,720) | Janson RAD | |
 | BROTANK | $4.99 | 153 81% | 4.6k | $23k (exactly $22,904) | Dfirend Games | |
 | SCAD | · EA | $7.99 | 86 76% | 2.6k | $21k (exactly $20,614) | NAISU |
 | RoadOut | $14.99 | 34 97% | 1.0k | $15k (exactly $15,290) | Rastrolabs Game Studio | |
 | Space Dragons | $9.99 | 36 83% | 1.1k | $11k (exactly $10,789) | TEAM Black Hat Robot | |
 | Chaos on Wheels | $9.99 | 34 67% | 1.0k | $10k (exactly $10,190) | Acodeon Development | |
 | Dungeons & Drivers | $9.99 | 26 84% | 780 | $7.8k (exactly $7,792) | Digital Synapsis | |
 | Threads of War | $4.99 | 45 97% | 1.4k | $6.7k (exactly $6,736) | KoS |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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