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Should I ship a Top-Down Shooter Fighting game?
Fighting + Top-Down Shooter
Only 8 developers shipped a Top-Down Shooter Fighting game 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, Kitchen Wars, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced, ×6.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.3k against a market of $1.5k. 12 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $959 (exactly $959) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.3k (exactly $1,348) |
| Top 25% | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) |
| Top 5% | $6.7k (exactly $6,736) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 65% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, 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
- Top-Down Shooter
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Fighting, Top-Down Shooter
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 2,959 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $960. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 12 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.0 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
Midnight Fight Express 2022 · $1.2M 
God's Trigger 2019 · $198k 
Hyper Jam 2019 · $168k 
Kitchen Wars 2025 · $6.7k 
The Henchmen 2026 · $6.3k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Midnight Fight Express | older | $19.99 | 1,981 90% | 59k | $1.2M (exactly $1,188,006) | Jacob Dzwinel |
| | God's Trigger | older | $14.99 | 441 72% | 13k | $198k (exactly $198,318) | One More Level |
| | Hyper Jam | older | $12.99 | 431 93% | 13k | $168k (exactly $167,961) | Bit Dragon |
| | Kitchen Wars | $4.99 | 45 80% | 1.4k | $6.7k (exactly $6,736) | Silent Owl | |
| | The Henchmen | $9.99 | 21 76% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | Alex Von Bronx | |
 | Pulsar Crash | $14.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $4.5k (exactly $4,497) | Little Doctor Games | |
 | Cymatically Muffed | older | $14.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $3.6k (exactly $3,598) | Kelsam |
 | Whiskey & Zombies: The Great Southern Zombie Escape | older | $9.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | Nuttery Entertainment |
 | Ace Pilot Europe | older | $4.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | Hubert cachat |
 | Shop Town Dooter | $8.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.3k (exactly $1,348) | Game Sandwich | |
 | BreakBall | $7.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | eyedromeda | |
 | Robots with Guns | $7.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $959 (exactly $959) | Flash of Stars | |
 | Stopping Santa | $1.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $716 (exactly $716) | Hephaestus Games | |
 | Mordeny | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Mordeny |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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