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Should I ship a Faith Puzzle Platformer?
Puzzle Platformer + Faith
Only 10 developers shipped a Faith Puzzle Platformer 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, The Cave Diver, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced, ×5.5 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 $210 against a market of $480. 11 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $210 (exactly $210) |
| Top 25% | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) |
| Top 5% | $37k (exactly $36,563) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 11 |
| 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 75% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Puzzle Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Faith
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Puzzle Platformer
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 76% positive over 147 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Puzzle Platformer with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RomanceFair
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + Life SimFair
- + SimulationFair
- + Grid-Based MovementFair
- + SokobanFair
- + LovecraftianPoor odds
- + Co-op CampaignPoor odds
- + MetroidvaniaPoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + Split ScreenPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
Comparable games
Kubinashi Recollection 2021 · $60k 
TEOCIDA 2021 · $42k 
The Cave Diver 2026 · $37k 
Suns of Wiraqocha 2023 · $9.6k 
Altero 2022 · $6.5k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Kubinashi Recollection | older | $11.99 | 167 94% | 5.0k | $60k (exactly $60,070) | 給食頭蛮 |
| | TEOCIDA | older | $9.99 | 140 95% | 4.2k | $42k (exactly $41,958) | Vikintor |
| | The Cave Diver | $9.99 | 122 75% | 3.7k | $37k (exactly $36,563) | Ovsko | |
| | Suns of Wiraqocha | older | $4.99 | 64 98% | 1.9k | $9.6k (exactly $9,581) | Alejandro Medina, Rafael Gonzalez-Otoya… (Alejandro Medina, Rafael Gonzalez-Otoya B., Adrian Blume) |
| | Altero | older | $6.99 | 31 90% | 930 | $6.5k (exactly $6,501) | Sergio Schiavo |
 | 朱鹭子的奇妙冒险 | older | $5.99 | 34 100% | 1.0k | $6.1k (exactly $6,110) | 落羽社 |
 | Alveole | older | $0.99 | 71 80% | 2.1k | $2.1k (exactly $2,109) | Emil Ismaylov, Denis Petrov |
 | Screwball | $12.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.9k (exactly $1,948) | Scott Tipton | |
 | Welcome Back | older | $1.99 | 27 100% | 810 | $1.6k (exactly $1,612) | Slider Games Studio |
 | Inferno | older | $6.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.5k (exactly $1,468) | Blue Vertex |
 | Levitation Simulator 2 | $2.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) | OZNA STUDIO | |
 | Esau's World | $14.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $899 (exactly $899) | The Good Trash | |
 | Blind Trust: The City | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Bytelyft | |
 | Swap lives | $0.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | WANG LU QIAN | |
 | Tone | $1.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Realentlessly Hopeful, LLC | |
 | Space IXI Frontier Wars | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Roberto Joaquin Garay Medrano | |
 | Endless Salvation | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 炉火绘题本 | |
 | BibleGames - Erstes Buch Mose - Teil 1 | $11.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | JoniSoft - Jonas Efinger |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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