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Should I ship a Fantasy Precision Platformer?
Precision Platformer + Fantasy
Of 177 developers who shipped a Fantasy Precision Platformer in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 251 more are announced, ×3.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $480 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 4 / 10 build. 81 developers shipped in the last year and 251 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $105 (exactly $105) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $2.4k (exactly $2,394) |
| Top 5% | $27k (exactly $26,632) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 177 |
| Released games | 539 |
| Announced | 251 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 down 20% on the market, supply 15% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Precision Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Fantasy
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Precision Platformer; 7 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Platformer, Action, Adventure
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $12.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Pixel Graphics, Side Scroller
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $12.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 1,333 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $110. Nearly all of the 116 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 251 games are announced against 81 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Precision Platformer with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DemonsFair
- + FPSFair
- + GothicFair
- + HorrorFair
- + Character CustomizationFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Action RoguelikeFair
- + Time ManipulationFair
- + SandboxFair
- + Procedural GenerationFair
- + RPGFair
Comparable games
Jump King 2019 · $4.8M 
PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC 2022 · $1.5M 
Blue Fire 2021 · $1.1M 
Monument Valley 2 2022 · $845k 
Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU 2024 · $539k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Jump King | older | $12.99 | 12,342 90% | 370k | $4.8M (exactly $4,809,677) | Nexile |
| | PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC | older | $29.99 | 1,644 92% | 49k | $1.5M (exactly $1,479,107) | NOW PRODUCTION |
| | Blue Fire | older | $19.99 | 1,908 83% | 57k | $1.1M (exactly $1,144,228) | Robi Studios |
| | Monument Valley 2 | older | $7.99 | 3,526 93% | 106k | $845k (exactly $845,182) | ustwo games |
| | Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU | older | $19.99 | 898 82% | 27k | $539k (exactly $538,531) | Surgent Studios |
 | Kitsune Tails | older | $19.99 | 833 95% | 25k | $500k (exactly $499,550) | Kitsune Games |
 | Super Mombo Quest | older | $19.99 | 795 96% | 24k | $477k (exactly $476,761) | Orube Game Studio |
 | Only Climb: Better Together | older | $4.99 | 2,939 54% | 88k | $440k (exactly $439,968) | Exbyte Studios |
 | Wings of Vi | older | $14.99 | 955 83% | 29k | $429k (exactly $429,464) | Grynsoft |
 | Olija | older | $14.99 | 910 89% | 27k | $409k (exactly $409,227) | Skeleton Crew Studio, Thomas Olsson |
 | Symphonia | $19.99 | 325 88% | 9.8k | $195k (exactly $194,902) | Sunny Peak | |
 | TetherGeist | $16.99 | 299 97% | 9.0k | $152k (exactly $152,400) | O. and Co. Games, Out of Space Games | |
 | Outrider Mako | $17.99 | 121 65% | 3.6k | $65k (exactly $65,304) | Asamado Games | |
 | Return to Dark Castle | $19.99 | 80 95% | 2.4k | $48k (exactly $47,976) | Z Sculpt Entertainment | |
 | SomnaBuster | $14.99 | 89 97% | 2.7k | $40k (exactly $40,023) | PD_CGT | |
 | Aggelos 2 | $19.99 | 61 73% | 1.8k | $37k (exactly $36,582) | WONDERBOY BOBI | |
 | Aureole - Wings of Hope | $12.99 | 84 95% | 2.5k | $33k (exactly $32,735) | Team Stargazers | |
 | Beholgar 2 | $11.99 | 77 80% | 2.3k | $28k (exactly $27,697) | Serkan Bakar | |
 | Unnamed Pogo Game | $6.99 | 127 85% | 3.8k | $27k (exactly $26,632) | Unnamed Games | |
 | Janosik 2 | $8.99 | 70 95% | 2.1k | $19k (exactly $18,879) | Onix Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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