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Should I ship a Female-Led Looter Shooter?
Looter Shooter + Female Protagonist
Only 14 developers shipped a Female-Led Looter 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, SYNDUALITY Echo of Ada, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 42 more are announced, ×6.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 8 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.9k, ×1.3 the market's $1.5k for a 8 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $630; 1 in 20 cleared $3.9M, ×2645 the market median. Revenue is down 45% on the market; 42 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $628 (exactly $628) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.9k (exactly $1,918) |
| Top 25% | $15k (exactly $15,467) |
| Top 5% | $4.0M (exactly $3,962,609) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 43 |
| Announced | 42 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 45% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 9%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Looter Shooter
- effort 8 / 10 · low · online co-op and a loot economy on top of a shooter
- Female Protagonist
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Looter Shooter; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Action Roguelike, Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $39.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Anime, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $39.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 51% positive over 4,584 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $630. 5 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 42 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Looter Shooter with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + MechsFair
- + Vehicular CombatFair
- + IdlerFair
- + 3D PlatformerLong shot
- + Extraction ShooterPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Twin Stick ShooterPoor odds
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + Inventory ManagementPoor odds
Comparable games
Necromunda: Hired Gun 2021 · $7.1M 
SYNDUALITY Echo of Ada 2025 · $4.0M 
Nightmare Reaper 2022 · $2.5M 
Soundfall 2022 · $896k 
Battle Shapers 2024 · $738k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Necromunda: Hired Gun | older | $39.99 | 5,892 68% | 177k | $7.1M (exactly $7,068,632) | Streum On Studio |
| | SYNDUALITY Echo of Ada | $39.99 | 3,303 40% | 99k | $4.0M (exactly $3,962,609) | Game Studio Inc. | |
| | Nightmare Reaper | older | $24.99 | 3,394 93% | 102k | $2.5M (exactly $2,544,482) | Blazing Bit Games |
| | Soundfall | older | $29.99 | 996 73% | 30k | $896k (exactly $896,101) | Drastic Games |
| | Battle Shapers | $24.99 | 984 80% | 30k | $738k (exactly $737,705) | Metric Empire | |
 | Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend | older | $14.99 | 1,087 52% | 33k | $489k (exactly $488,824) | Sigma Team Inc. |
 | The Shadow of Yidhra | older | $10.99 | 1,355 89% | 41k | $447k (exactly $446,744) | WhitePeach |
 | Black Ice | · EA older | $19.99 | 515 95% | 15k | $309k (exactly $308,846) | Nonadecimal Creative, Super Duper Garre… (Nonadecimal Creative, Super Duper Garrett Cooper) |
 | Gangs of Sherwood | older | $39.99 | 189 38% | 5.7k | $227k (exactly $226,743) | Appeal Studios |
 | HSS:Reload | $8.99 | 181 71% | 5.4k | $49k (exactly $48,816) | SmokingBear Studio | |
 | HOPE 01 | · EA | $11.99 | 43 88% | 1.3k | $15k (exactly $15,467) | Bending Boy Games |
 | Bail Force: Cyberpunk Bounty Hunters | $9.99 | 21 90% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | SeblaccSoft | |
 | Lycoris | $9.99 | 15 33% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | Miki Games | |
 | Crystalyn | · EA | $7.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $1.9k (exactly $1,918) | Soulstone Forge |
 | DarkMytholoqy:Lucy | $2.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $1.4k (exactly $1,435) | Kioren Game | |
 | Gensou Gold Rush | $5.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) | SOMARIYA | |
 | Street grabbing of territory | $2.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Southern Vermilion Bird |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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