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Should I ship a Choices Matter Hero Shooter?
Hero Shooter + Choices Matter
Only 6 developers shipped a Choices Matter Hero Shooter 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, Westwood Shadows, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×3.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 9 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $0 in the last 2 years and $240 over 4, against a market of $1.3k for a 9 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 19 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $0 (exactly $0) |
| Top 25% | $120 (exactly $120) |
| Top 5% | $11k (exactly $11,151) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 9 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $11.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 400% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hero Shooter
- effort 9 / 10 · low · competitive netcode plus hero balance and content cadence
- Choices Matter
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 9 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Hero Shooter, Choices Matter
- Price point
- $11.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $11.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 67% positive over 5,072 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 19 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hero Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SimulationLong shot
- + Bullet HellLong shot
- + Boomer ShooterLong shot
- + MedievalLong shot
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + SuperheroPoor odds
- + Battle RoyalePoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + PvPPoor odds
- + PlatformerPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + PhysicsPoor odds
Comparable games
Gigantic: Rampage Edition 2024 · $2.3M 
BE-A Walker 2020 · $195k 
Grand Pigeon's Duty 2016 · $54k 
Westwood Shadows 2026 · $11k 
Amazing Superhero Squad 2021 · $6.6k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Gigantic: Rampage Edition | older | $19.99 | 3,795 65% | 114k | $2.3M (exactly $2,275,862) | Abstraction Games |
| | BE-A Walker | older | $9.99 | 651 72% | 20k | $195k (exactly $195,105) | Tequilabyte Studio |
| | Grand Pigeon's Duty | older | $3.99 | 448 76% | 13k | $54k (exactly $53,626) | WolfgangIs |
| | Westwood Shadows | $11.99 | 31 67% | 930 | $11k (exactly $11,151) | RedSoup Studio | |
| | Amazing Superhero Squad | older | $5.99 | 37 64% | 1.1k | $6.6k (exactly $6,649) | Siberian Koala |
 | Dice Knight: Mystery of the Moirai | older | $11.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Die of Death Games |
 | Hijacker Jack : ARCADE FMV | older | $1.99 | 63 65% | 1.9k | $3.8k (exactly $3,761) | New IDEA Games |
 | Starfend | older | $9.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | Ranieri Silva |
 | NoAmmo | older | $3.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $2.2k (exactly $2,155) | · |
 | Demon Blast | · EA older | $14.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Start Warp |
 | Suds | · EA | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Honeybell Games |
 | POPOLOGIST® Camera Slinger | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Joe Rey, POPOLOGY® Networks | |
 | Over Shooter | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Chilled Out Duck Games | |
 | TD Master | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Martin Vaupell Christensen | |
 | Defender Zed-001 | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Robert E. Hull |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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