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Should I ship a Collectathon Looter Shooter?
Looter Shooter + Collectathon
Only 10 developers shipped a Collectathon Looter 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, Deadline Escape, 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, ×5.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 8 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $13k against a market of $1.5k. 15 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $13k (exactly $12,529) |
| Top 25% | $14k (exactly $13,526) |
| Top 5% | $65k (exactly $64,820) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 16085% on the market, supply 55% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Looter Shooter
- effort 8 / 10 · low · online co-op and a loot economy on top of a shooter
- Collectathon
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Looter Shooter, Collectathon
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 81% positive over 682 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. All of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Looter Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + MechsFair
- + Vehicular CombatFair
- + IdlerFair
- + 3D PlatformerLong shot
- + Extraction ShooterPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Twin Stick ShooterPoor odds
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + Inventory ManagementPoor odds
Comparable games
Soundfall 2022 · $896k 
The Brew Barons 2024 · $546k 
Almighty: Kill Your Gods 2021 · EA · $241k 
Deadline Escape 2026 · EA · $65k 
Deadtime Defenders 2025 · $14k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Soundfall | older | $29.99 | 996 73% | 30k | $896k (exactly $896,101) | Drastic Games |
| | The Brew Barons | older | $21.99 | 828 75% | 25k | $546k (exactly $546,232) | Lifetap Studios |
| | Almighty: Kill Your Gods | · EA older | $24.99 | 321 61% | 9.6k | $241k (exactly $240,654) | RUNWILD Entertainment |
| | Deadline Escape | · EA | $4.99 | 433 84% | 13k | $65k (exactly $64,820) | DeadlineEscape |
| | Deadtime Defenders | $9.99 | 48 79% | 1.4k | $14k (exactly $14,386) | Arcane Embers | |
 | Farming Incremental But With Guns | $3.99 | 113 88% | 3.4k | $14k (exactly $13,526) | Clementine Wolf Games | |
 | Duneborn | $11.99 | 35 51% | 1.1k | $13k (exactly $12,590) | A.P Games | |
 | Wild Alone | $10.99 | 38 47% | 1.1k | $13k (exactly $12,529) | Wild Alone 21 | |
 | Hacker Man | older | $19.99 | 8 12% | 240 | $4.8k (exactly $4,798) | GamesBraz |
 | Bank Robber | older | $2.99 | 47 68% | 1.4k | $4.2k (exactly $4,216) | Softwaves |
 | Seeker Quest: The Creature Collector | $6.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) | Jestercraft | |
 | Silent Survivor: Under The Crisis | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Silent Dream | |
 | The Key | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hetosoft Sistemas | |
 | Over Shooter | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Chilled Out Duck Games | |
 | another game ahhh! situation | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | pixelitstudios, pixelitstudios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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