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Should I ship a Demon Hero Shooter?
Hero Shooter + Demons
Only 6 developers shipped a Demon Hero 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, Project Warlock II, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced, ×9.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 9 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $32k against a market of $1.3k. 18 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $32k (exactly $31,736) |
| Top 25% | $98k (exactly $97,751) |
| Top 5% | $628k (exactly $628,460) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 9 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hero Shooter
- effort 9 / 10 · low · competitive netcode plus hero balance and content cadence
- Demons
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 9 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Hero Shooter
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 79% positive over 2,078 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. 18 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×9.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hero Shooter with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SimulationLong shot
- + Bullet HellLong shot
- + Boomer ShooterLong shot
- + MedievalLong shot
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + SuperheroPoor odds
- + Battle RoyalePoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + PvPPoor odds
- + PlatformerPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + PhysicsPoor odds
Comparable games
Project Warlock II 2025 · $628k 
Devilated 2024 · $98k 
LUST Eternal 🔞 2025 · $32k 
Rescue Operation 2021 · $30k 
Horror Legends 2021 · $17k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Project Warlock II | $16.99 | 1,233 80% | 37k | $628k (exactly $628,460) | Buckshot Software | |
| | Devilated | $19.99 | 163 85% | 4.9k | $98k (exactly $97,751) | Trunka | |
| | LUST Eternal 🔞 | $4.99 | 212 55% | 6.4k | $32k (exactly $31,736) | Octo Games | |
| | Rescue Operation | older | $3.99 | 253 87% | 7.6k | $30k (exactly $30,284) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
| | Horror Legends | older | $4.99 | 113 88% | 3.4k | $17k (exactly $16,916) | October Games |
 | The Dark Method | · EA older | $12.99 | 38 89% | 1.1k | $15k (exactly $14,809) | Analog Joker LLC |
 | Magic War | older | $24.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $7.5k (exactly $7,497) | Gamesforgames |
 | Hologram | older | $19.99 | 8 25% | 240 | $4.8k (exactly $4,798) | Enlighteneer |
 | Cemetery Warrior V | older | $3.99 | 32 71% | 960 | $3.8k (exactly $3,830) | Falco Software |
 | Boulette Hell | older | $6.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $3.4k (exactly $3,355) | Lucas Delvallet, Quentin Delvallet |
 | Hunt Skeletons Together | $0.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $446 (exactly $446) | cnsgames | |
 | OUTBREAK FALL: BIOHAZARD | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Eclipse Interactive | |
 | Space IXI Frontier Wars | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Roberto Joaquin Garay Medrano |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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