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Should I ship a Demon Gun Customization game?
Gun Customization + Demons
Only 14 developers shipped a Demon Gun Customization 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, Project Warlock II, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 32 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $750, ×1.2 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $180; 1 in 20 cleared $620k, ×1001 the market median. Revenue is down 85% on the market; 32 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $748 (exactly $748) |
| Top 25% | $8.1k (exactly $8,095) |
| Top 5% | $628k (exactly $628,460) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 32 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $10.50 |
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 85% on the market, supply 35% more 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.
- Gun Customization
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Demons
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Gun Customization
- Price point
- $10.50 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 79% positive over 1,358 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 32 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Gun Customization with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Immersive SimPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Resource ManagementPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
Comparable games
Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Extraction 2023 · $3.4M 
Dread Templar 2023 · $657k 
Project Warlock II 2025 · $628k 
Anima : The Reign of Darkness 2021 · $220k 
EVERSLAUGHT 2021 · EA · $201k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Extraction | older | $39.99 | 2,865 66% | 86k | $3.4M (exactly $3,437,140) | Ubisoft Montreal |
| | Dread Templar | older | $19.99 | 1,096 82% | 33k | $657k (exactly $657,271) | T19 Games |
| | Project Warlock II | $16.99 | 1,233 80% | 37k | $628k (exactly $628,460) | Buckshot Software | |
| | Anima : The Reign of Darkness | older | $11.99 | 613 69% | 18k | $220k (exactly $220,496) | Redeev |
| | EVERSLAUGHT | · EA older | $19.99 | 336 61% | 10k | $201k (exactly $201,499) | MobX GmbH |
 | LEVEL UP 80 | older | $39.99 | 99 79% | 3.0k | $119k (exactly $118,770) | Galactic Geckon |
 | Cemetery Warrior 4 | older | $29.99 | 87 68% | 2.6k | $78k (exactly $78,274) | Falco Software, kazakovstudios |
 | Project RIP | older | $13.99 | 121 61% | 3.6k | $51k (exactly $50,784) | Storming Tech |
 | Hell Survivors | · EA | $7.99 | 38 55% | 1.1k | $9.1k (exactly $9,109) | Aerilon |
 | ZIX | · EA | $9.99 | 28 78% | 840 | $8.4k (exactly $8,392) | Hidden IO |
 | Deadzone Haunt | $14.99 | 18 83% | 540 | $8.1k (exactly $8,095) | GeamGames | |
 | Magical Hellhound Lust | · EA | $19.99 | 13 53% | 390 | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) | Mildaponno |
 | No More Demon | · EA | $12.99 | 16 87% | 480 | $6.2k (exactly $6,235) | Mundus Games |
 | Enough with the Witch | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Birdy Games | |
 | Assassin of Demon | $3.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | Saylor Games | |
 | Heart Keeper | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | autoselff | |
 | Paragon Of Time | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Webcess |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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