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Should I ship a Crime Score Attack game?

Score Attack + Crime

Only 15 developers shipped a Crime Score Attack game 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, PAKO 4, 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.

Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.

The middle developer here made $360, ×0.6 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $6.8k, ×11 the market median. Revenue is up 10% on the market; 15 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.

Deciding numbers: median 0.6 times the market baseline, revenue up 10% on the market, 15 announced, ×1.4 per developer who shipped in the last year.
Nobody has said they are building this yet.
Score Attack + Crime
Fig. 1 · this niche among 16,100
Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr n = 15
Median est. gross by half-year cohort, 2023 H1 to 2026 H2: $359 → $599 → $179 (still earning)
The last cohort is still earning.
Outcomes for Score Attack + Crime: Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr, n = 15
Bottom 30% $150 (exactly $150)
Median $359 (exactly $359)
Top 25% $2.1k (exactly $2,098)
Top 5% $6.9k (exactly $6,893)
Developers, 2 yr 15
Released games 27
Announced 15
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 175% more developers than the period before.

Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.

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Plate 2 · systems and tooling

Can AI deliver it?

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

Score Attack
effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
Crime
effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band

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Plate 3 · the cost side

What it takes

Effort
6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
Systems
Score Attack
Price point
$4.99 typical
Plate 4 · demand

Why players buy here

The top 10 games average 73% positive over 84 reviews.

Plate 5 · the loss side

What kills games here

Developer outcomes in the last 2 years by share: 3 in 10 under $150, median $360, 1 in 4 over $2.0k, 1 in 20 over $6.8k.

3 in 10 developers made under $150. 15 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.

Plate 6 · same mechanic, other settings

Adjacent niches

Score Attack with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.

  1. + MechsFair23 devs · median $6.2k · 24 announced
  2. + Spectacle fighterFair31 devs · median $4.3k · 29 announced
  3. + DragonsFair16 devs · median $2.1k · 11 announced
  4. + VampiresFair16 devs · median $1.7k · 14 announced
  5. + CookingFair28 devs · median $1.4k · 30 announced
  6. + SuperheroFair11 devs · median $1.3k · 5 announced
  7. + Female ProtagonistFair112 devs · median $1.2k · 104 announced
  8. + GolfFair11 devs · median $1.2k · 8 announced
  9. + GothicFair20 devs · median $959 · 14 announced
  10. + ModernFair53 devs · median $899 · 43 announced
  11. + Choose Your Own AdventureFair14 devs · median $898 · 11 announced
  12. + UndergroundFair23 devs · median $748 · 18 announced

All 200 pairs on the Score Attack page

Plate 7 · comparable specimens, by est. revenue

Comparable games

Hitman: Absolution™ 2012 · $30M Desperate Vlad 2022 · $33k PAKO 4 2025 · EA · $6.9k Red Chair 2025 · EA · $4.2k MultiTaskMaster 2018 · $3.6k
Capsule Game Released Price Reviews Est. copies Est. revenue Developer
Hitman: Absolution™ older $19.99 49,637 93% 1.5M $30M (exactly $29,767,309) Io-Interactive A/S
Desperate Vlad older $14.99 73 84% 2.2k $33k (exactly $32,828) MIROWIN
PAKO 4 · EA $9.99 23 91% 690 $6.9k (exactly $6,893) Tree Men Games
Red Chair · EA $9.99 14 21% 420 $4.2k (exactly $4,196) RedChair Gameworks
MultiTaskMaster older $9.99 12 100% 360 $3.6k (exactly $3,596) WyvernWare
Mini Car Money Chase older $4.99 20 95% 600 $3.0k (exactly $2,994) xproject
NEVER HAPPENED $3.99 18 66% 540 $2.2k (exactly $2,155) SF Create
Jack's 510 Racing $9.99 7 100% 210 $2.1k (exactly $2,098) heartingNinja
DopeNet older $4.99 13 100% 390 $1.9k (exactly $1,946) WeirdoMart
1964 Operation Velvet Twins $5.99 8 87% 240 $1.4k (exactly $1,438) SEEP
Second Chance at a Billion $10.00 2 50% 60 $600 (exactly $600) ElderYew
Favela Defender $4.99 4 100% 120 $599 (exactly $599) Palmsoft Games
Nephew's Vendetta $5.99 2 100% 60 $359 (exactly $359) Colossus Game Studio
HANDY NEW YEAR! $3.99 3 100% 90 $359 (exactly $359) Serio Studio
1B1E $1.99 3 66% 90 $179 (exactly $179) BedCoder

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