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Should I ship a Crime Shoot 'Em Up?
Shoot 'Em Up + Crime
Only 10 developers shipped a Crime Shoot 'Em Up 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, PIZZA WESTERN 🍕, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 25 more are announced, ×8.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $360 against a market of $630. 25 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $269 (exactly $269) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $2.4k (exactly $2,352) |
| Top 5% | $9.0k (exactly $8,997) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 49 |
| Announced | 25 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 55% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Shoot 'Em Up
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Crime
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Shoot 'Em Up
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 90% positive over 59 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $270. All of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 25 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×8.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
PAYDAY 3 2023 · $44M 
Squirrel with a Gun 2024 · $1.9M 
Arrest of a stone Buddha 2020 · $180k 
Super Ledgehop: Double Laser 2018 · $22k 
Super Space Pug 2016 · $11k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | PAYDAY 3 | older | $29.99 | 49,305 45% | 1.5M | $44M (exactly $44,359,708) | Starbreeze Studios |
| | Squirrel with a Gun | older | $19.99 | 3,112 86% | 93k | $1.9M (exactly $1,866,266) | Dee Dee Creations LLC |
| | Arrest of a stone Buddha | older | $14.99 | 400 69% | 12k | $180k (exactly $179,880) | yeo |
| | Super Ledgehop: Double Laser | older | $0.99 | 744 96% | 22k | $22k (exactly $22,097) | LAME Dimension |
| | Super Space Pug | older | $1.99 | 185 55% | 5.6k | $11k (exactly $11,044) | Digital Dawn Studios |
 | PIZZA WESTERN 🍕 | $29.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $9.0k (exactly $8,997) | Lola Fisher | |
 | MAFIA: Family's Secret | older | $6.99 | 32 75% | 960 | $6.7k (exactly $6,710) | Tails Games |
 | Bloody Rampage City | older | $4.99 | 37 70% | 1.1k | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) | Crimson Chaos Studios |
 | Hacker Man | older | $19.99 | 8 12% | 240 | $4.8k (exactly $4,798) | GamesBraz |
 | Bullet Noir | $11.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $4.7k (exactly $4,676) | WOLCEN Studio | |
 | Miami Horizon 2077 | $4.90 | 16 75% | 480 | $2.4k (exactly $2,352) | CJ | |
 | MIDNIGHT GETAWAY | $7.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | Final Offer | |
 | Clippy Commando | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Daniel Harnden | |
 | Lethal Dose | · EA | $0.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $356 (exactly $356) | Fraser Hislop |
 | SpyGuys | $2.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | Olly | |
 | SZX | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Venagon | |
 | The graveyard duty fall of the last demon | · EA | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Faustina Mutamba |
 | Suqare: Hired Gun | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 2102 Game Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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