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Should I ship a Fishing Platformer?
Fishing + Platformer
Only 12 developers shipped a Fishing 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, Doloc Town, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×2.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $4.5k, ×9.5 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.2k; 1 in 20 cleared $1.8M, ×3997 the market median. Revenue is up 85% on the market; 19 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.1k (exactly $1,134) |
|---|---|
| Median | $4.5k (exactly $4,497) |
| Top 25% | $175k (exactly $174,725) |
| Top 5% | $1.9M (exactly $1,898,650) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 up 85% on the market, supply 200% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 20%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Fishing
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Fishing, Platformer
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 4,808 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.2k. 19 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Fishing with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FarmingFair
- + AutomationFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Score AttackFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + EconomyPoor odds
- + CapitalismPoor odds
- + AgriculturePoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
Comparable games
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition 2020 · $42M 
Doloc Town 2026 · $1.9M 
I Am Fish 2021 · $1.7M 
Phoenotopia: Awakening 2021 · $1.7M 
Here Comes Niko! 2021 · $787k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition | older | $29.99 | 47,176 94% | 1.4M | $42M (exactly $42,444,247) | Thunder Lotus |
| | Doloc Town | $19.99 | 3,166 94% | 95k | $1.9M (exactly $1,898,650) | RedSaw Games Studio | |
| | I Am Fish | older | $19.99 | 2,917 75% | 88k | $1.7M (exactly $1,749,325) | Bossa Studios |
| | Phoenotopia: Awakening | older | $19.99 | 2,755 82% | 83k | $1.7M (exactly $1,652,173) | Cape Cosmic |
| | Here Comes Niko! | older | $24.99 | 1,050 92% | 32k | $787k (exactly $787,185) | Frog Vibes |
 | Voodoo Fishin' | · EA | $9.99 | 800 81% | 24k | $240k (exactly $239,760) | Lost Arcade |
 | FISH | · EA | $9.99 | 583 94% | 17k | $175k (exactly $174,725) | dmcaguy |
 | Everdeep Aurora | $19.99 | 177 89% | 5.3k | $106k (exactly $106,147) | Nautilus Games | |
 | Fantasy Fishing Town | older | $6.99 | 81 77% | 2.4k | $17k (exactly $16,986) | RainbowStudio |
 | Koboo: The Tree Spirit | older | $14.99 | 35 82% | 1.1k | $16k (exactly $15,740) | Jerome Labelle, Simon Labelle |
 | Capri Care | · EA | $12.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $5.1k (exactly $5,066) | Jdfskitz, Kiyoshirei, Dark_KissQ121 |
 | Goldfish | $14.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $4.5k (exactly $4,497) | Gabry Corti | |
 | Upstream | $7.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $4.3k (exactly $4,315) | Gllama Games | |
 | Cattopia | $7.99 | 17 88% | 510 | $4.1k (exactly $4,075) | Timesoft | |
 | Eat or DIE! | $1.99 | 19 84% | 570 | $1.1k (exactly $1,134) | The Big Studio | |
 | Focus Froggy | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | BRTL Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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