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Should I ship a Fighting Third-Person Shooter?
Fighting + Third-Person Shooter
Only 6 developers shipped a Fighting Third-Person 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, Cyberpunk SFX, 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, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $150 in the last 2 years and $300 over 4, against a market of $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 11 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 25% | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 5% | $55k (exactly $54,845) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 7 / 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 400% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 26%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Fighting
- effort 7 / 10 · low · frame data, hitboxes and rollback netcode
- Third-Person Shooter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Fighting, Third-Person 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 133,958 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 11 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Fighting with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SandboxStrong odds
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + Souls-likePoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CyberpunkPoor odds
- + Local Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
Comparable games
Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition 2014 · $42M 
Batman™: Arkham Origins 2013 · $27M 
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™ 2009 · $3.4M 
Gigantic: Rampage Edition 2024 · $2.3M 
BLACK CLOVER: QUARTET KNIGHTS 2018 · $1.2M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Sleeping Dogs: Definitive Edition | older | $19.99 | 70,499 94% | 2.1M | $42M (exactly $42,278,250) | United Front Games, Feral Interactive (… (United Front Games, Feral Interactive (Mac)) |
| | Batman™: Arkham Origins | older | $19.99 | 45,536 90% | 1.4M | $27M (exactly $27,307,939) | WB Games Montreal, Splash Damage |
| | STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™ | older | $9.99 | 11,290 96% | 339k | $3.4M (exactly $3,383,613) | Raven Software |
| | Gigantic: Rampage Edition | older | $19.99 | 3,795 65% | 114k | $2.3M (exactly $2,275,862) | Abstraction Games |
| | BLACK CLOVER: QUARTET KNIGHTS | older | $49.99 | 832 75% | 25k | $1.2M (exactly $1,247,750) | ILINX, Inc. |
 | DAVIGO: VR vs. PC | · EA older | $24.99 | 1,200 84% | 36k | $900k (exactly $899,640) | Davigo Studio |
 | Prime & Load : 1776 | older | $7.99 | 313 76% | 9.4k | $75k (exactly $75,026) | Radio Silence Entertainment |
 | Cyberpunk SFX | $9.99 | 183 83% | 5.5k | $55k (exactly $54,845) | Whale Rock Games | |
 | Iron Warriors: T-72 Tank Command | older | $5.99 | 268 65% | 8.0k | $48k (exactly $48,160) | Crazy House |
 | Elden Gunfire 2 | older | $13.99 | 42 64% | 1.3k | $18k (exactly $17,627) | Amonga99 |
 | DAMex : DArk Matter Exodus | $4.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Benoit Locu | |
 | Home Invaders | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Umongus | |
 | Ranger Force | $19.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | J Studios Gaming LLC | |
 | Pillow Fight | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | StudyFun | |
 | Emotional Combat: Ratio V Motus | · EA | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | VX Core Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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