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Should I ship a Cooking Shooter?
Shooter + Cooking
Only 17 developers shipped a Cooking 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, SULFUR, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 28 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.1k, ×3.3 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.4k; 1 in 20 cleared $7.2M, ×11509 the market median. Revenue is down 95% on the market; 28 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.1k (exactly $2,096) |
| Top 25% | $41k (exactly $40,553) |
| Top 5% | $7.2M (exactly $7,227,858) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 28 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 95% on the market, supply 365% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 24%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Shooter, Cooking; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Exploration, Survival
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Difficult, First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 10,493 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.4k. 6 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 28 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dating SimFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + VampiresFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Match 3Fair
- + SnowFair
- + Boss RushFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + ArcadeLong shot
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
Comparable games
SULFUR 2024 · EA · $7.2M 
Badiya: Desert Survival 2016 · EA · $170k 
Project: Mist 2026 · EA · $139k 
Pizza Bandit 2025 · EA · $139k 
Abyss Kitchen 2026 · $73k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | SULFUR | · EA | $24.99 | 9,641 87% | 289k | $7.2M (exactly $7,227,858) | Perfect Random |
| | Badiya: Desert Survival | · EA older | $19.99 | 284 50% | 8.5k | $170k (exactly $170,315) | Semaphore |
| | Project: Mist | · EA | $17.99 | 257 72% | 7.7k | $139k (exactly $138,703) | Chicken Launcher |
| | Pizza Bandit | · EA | $24.99 | 185 82% | 5.6k | $139k (exactly $138,694) | JOFSOFT |
| | Abyss Kitchen | $11.99 | 202 89% | 6.1k | $73k (exactly $72,659) | Pico Games | |
 | Baking Bad | · EA | $10.99 | 123 32% | 3.7k | $41k (exactly $40,553) | FunkyArmor |
 | Territory | · EA older | $14.99 | 57 64% | 1.7k | $26k (exactly $25,633) | Threat Vector |
 | Zombie Chef | $9.99 | 40 50% | 1.2k | $12k (exactly $11,988) | Voidy | |
 | Terafall: Survival | older | $10.99 | 33 42% | 990 | $11k (exactly $10,880) | Terafall: Survival |
 | Kebabstar 🌯⭐ | · EA | $14.99 | 14 78% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | Zeybek |
 | Fade Survival | · EA | $14.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $2.2k (exactly $2,248) | Phoenix Gaming Studios |
 | Shawarma Wars | $4.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $2.1k (exactly $2,096) | Simply The Best | |
 | Candy Brain | $4.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | Muscular Kittens |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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