Do I ship it?

Games › Character Customization › Character Customization + Precision Platformer

Specimen · observed

Should I ship a Character Customization Precision Platformer?

Character Customization + Precision Platformer

Of 103 developers who shipped a Character Customization Precision Platformer 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.. 116 more are announced.

Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.

The middle developer here made $750, ×1.2 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $270. Revenue is up 10% on the market; 116 games are announced against 58 developers who shipped in the last year.

Deciding numbers: median 1.2 times the market baseline, revenue up 10% on the market, 116 announced, ×2.0 per developer who shipped in the last year.
Nobody has said they are building this yet.
Character Customization + Precision Platformer
Fig. 1 · this niche among 16,100
Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr n = 103
Median est. gross by half-year cohort, 2023 H1 to 2026 H2: $2.8k → $479 → $386 → $1.8k → $898 → $1.5k → $598 (still earning) → $598 (still earning)
The last cohort is still earning.
Outcomes for Character Customization + Precision Platformer: Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr, n = 103
Bottom 30% $269 (exactly $269)
Median $748 (exactly $748)
Top 25% $3.6k (exactly $3,593)
Top 5% $41k (exactly $41,059)
Developers, 2 yr 103
Released games 297
Announced 116
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 10% on the market, supply 30% more developers than the period before.

Free games: 20%, excluded from money figures.

See every window in the explorer →

Plate 2 · systems and tooling

Can AI deliver it?

AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.

Character Customization
effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
Precision Platformer
effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band

How the rubric works →

Plate 3 · the cost side

What it takes

Effort
6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
Systems
Character Customization, Precision Platformer; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Platformer, Action, Adventure
Price point
$4.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
Art
4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Difficult, 3D, Colorful
Plate 4 · demand

Why players buy here

The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.

The top 10 games average 77% positive over 2,897 reviews.

Plate 5 · the loss side

What kills games here

Developer outcomes in the last 2 years by share: 3 in 10 under $270, median $750, 1 in 4 over $3.5k, 1 in 20 over $41k.

3 in 10 developers made under $270. 9 in 10 of the 58 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 116 games are announced against 58 developers who shipped in the last year.

Plate 6 · same mechanic, other settings

Adjacent niches

Character Customization with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.

  1. + Football (American)Strong odds14 devs · median $3.6k · 12 announced
  2. + Real-TimeStrong odds7 devs · median $2.0k · 6 announced
  3. + Music-Based Procedural GenerationFair10 devs · median $18k · 8 announced
  4. + TransportationFair19 devs · median $7.2k · 24 announced
  5. + MinigamesFair27 devs · median $5.7k · 34 announced
  6. + DwarvesFair7 devs · median $3.2k · 13 announced
  7. + BikesFair11 devs · median $1.5k · 10 announced
  8. + IdlerFair210 devs · median $1.2k · 286 announced
  9. + IncrementalFair146 devs · median $1.2k · 190 announced
  10. + GamblingFair30 devs · median $836 · 32 announced
  11. + TypingFair27 devs · median $539 · 38 announced
  12. + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds34 devs · median $116k · 60 announced

All 250 pairs on the Character Customization page

Plate 7 · comparable specimens, by est. revenue

Comparable games

Geometry Dash 2014 · $89M JUMP KING QUEST 2026 · $541k OlliOlli World 2022 · $539k Tchia 2024 · $514k LEGO® Horizon Adventures™ 2024 · $483k
Capsule Game Released Price Reviews Est. copies Est. revenue Developer
Geometry Dash older $4.99 595,606 93% 18M $89M (exactly $89,162,218) RobTop Games
JUMP KING QUEST $14.99 1,202 88% 36k $541k (exactly $540,539) Nexile
OlliOlli World older $19.99 898 93% 27k $539k (exactly $538,531) Roll7
Tchia older $29.99 571 89% 17k $514k (exactly $513,729) Awaceb
LEGO® Horizon Adventures™ $39.99 403 60% 12k $483k (exactly $483,479) Guerrilla Games, Studio Gobo
Only Climb: Better Together older $4.99 2,939 54% 88k $440k (exactly $439,968) Exbyte Studios
Wings of Vi older $14.99 955 83% 29k $429k (exactly $429,464) Grynsoft
JellyCar Worlds older $7.99 1,008 96% 30k $242k (exactly $241,618) Walaber Entertainment LLC
Runner3 older $19.99 261 75% 7.8k $157k (exactly $156,522) Choice Provisions
Golfie older $17.99 275 66% 8.3k $148k (exactly $148,418) Triheart Studio
PsiloSybil $12.99 232 85% 7.0k $90k (exactly $90,410) bad_vertex
4Wheel Challenge $3.99 409 57% 12k $49k (exactly $48,957) LJ3D STUDIOS
Driving Is Hard $6.99 200 79% 6.0k $42k (exactly $41,940) Elegant Horse Studios
Only Way is Down $9.99 137 63% 4.1k $41k (exactly $41,059) Jilted Generation Productions
Hold Your King $5.99 154 83% 4.6k $28k (exactly $27,674) Next Big Game Studio
Treasure Hunters: Raid Together $9.99 58 84% 1.7k $17k (exactly $17,383) Biax
Unaccessible $9.99 55 94% 1.7k $16k (exactly $16,484) REMBOT GAMES
One Box One Goal $7.99 47 82% 1.4k $11k (exactly $11,266) Paolo Orlandino

Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.