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Should I ship a Dating Sim Shoot 'Em Up?
Shoot 'Em Up + Dating Sim
Only 6 developers shipped a Dating Sim 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, LUST Eternal 🔞, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 6 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $4.2k against a market of $480. 6 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) |
| Top 25% | $8.0k (exactly $8,020) |
| Top 5% | $32k (exactly $31,736) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 6 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 6%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Shoot 'Em Up
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Dating Sim
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Shoot 'Em Up, Dating Sim
- Price point
- $6.99 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 $12.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 11,116 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 6 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
SEX with HITLER 2022 · $704k 
Wings of Seduction: Bust 'em out! 2024 · $352k 
Get To Work, Succubus-Chan! 2021 · $144k 
Hentai Crush 2019 · $134k 
BoneCraft 2019 · $113k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | SEX with HITLER | older | $6.99 | 3,358 81% | 101k | $704k (exactly $704,173) | Adolf Games |
| | Wings of Seduction: Bust 'em out! | older | $12.99 | 904 93% | 27k | $352k (exactly $352,289) | Ramen Cat Studio |
| | Get To Work, Succubus-Chan! | older | $9.99 | 480 78% | 14k | $144k (exactly $143,856) | SmallSqurriel, Eternal Alice Game |
| | Hentai Crush | older | $1.99 | 2,248 84% | 67k | $134k (exactly $134,206) | Mature Games |
| | BoneCraft | older | $14.99 | 252 80% | 7.6k | $113k (exactly $113,324) | D-Dub Software |
 | Hentai Asmodeus | older | $1.99 | 1,757 83% | 53k | $105k (exactly $104,893) | HEGA Studio |
 | AHEGAL | older | $1.99 | 1,165 88% | 35k | $70k (exactly $69,550) | OppaiMan 2D |
 | Love Rhythm | older | $2.99 | 571 78% | 17k | $51k (exactly $51,219) | Triple-S |
 | Breeding Village | older | $9.99 | 136 62% | 4.1k | $41k (exactly $40,759) | Miel |
 | 天降锦鲤 ~ My Lucky Koi | older | $4.99 | 245 93% | 7.4k | $37k (exactly $36,676) | V.P. TEAM |
 | LUST Eternal 🔞 | $4.99 | 212 55% | 6.4k | $32k (exactly $31,736) | Octo Games | |
 | Milky Rush-Two Paths | $3.99 | 67 74% | 2.0k | $8.0k (exactly $8,020) | snappixgames | |
 | Pizza Porno Panic | $9.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) | Blue Smut Studios | |
 | Dux Solaris | · EA | $6.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $839 (exactly $839) | MidnightMelon Games |
 | Stormwater - Complete Edition | $11.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Thinking of Cremation? | |
 | Wisp Gunner | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 000ghost |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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