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Should I ship a Fighting FPS?
Fighting + FPS
Only 6 developers shipped a Fighting FPS 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, Melon Simulator™, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×7.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $720 against a market of $1.5k. 21 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $719 (exactly $719) |
| Top 25% | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 5% | $11k (exactly $11,078) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 69 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 50% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 23%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Fighting, FPS
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $6.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 140,267 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 21 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.0 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
MORDHAU 2019 · $82M 
Paint the Town Red 2021 · $17M 
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™ 2009 · $3.4M 
War Dust VR: 32v32 Battlefields 2020 · $1.1M 
Zeno Clash 2009 · $649k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | MORDHAU | older | $29.99 | 91,678 80% | 2.8M | $82M (exactly $82,482,697) | Triternion |
| | Paint the Town Red | older | $19.99 | 29,141 96% | 874k | $17M (exactly $17,475,858) | South East Games |
| | STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™ | older | $9.99 | 11,290 96% | 339k | $3.4M (exactly $3,383,613) | Raven Software |
| | War Dust VR: 32v32 Battlefields | older | $24.99 | 1,489 80% | 45k | $1.1M (exactly $1,116,303) | raptor lab |
| | Zeno Clash | older | $9.99 | 2,164 88% | 65k | $649k (exactly $648,551) | ACE Team |
 | The Shore | older | $11.99 | 1,763 70% | 53k | $634k (exactly $634,151) | Ares Dragonis |
 | Zeno Clash 2 | older | $14.99 | 733 84% | 22k | $330k (exactly $329,630) | ACE Team |
 | Shark Attack Deathmatch 2 | older | $4.99 | 1,415 74% | 42k | $212k (exactly $211,826) | Lighthouse Games Studio |
 | Omikron: The Nomad Soul | older | $9.99 | 420 68% | 13k | $126k (exactly $125,874) | Quantic Dream |
 | Afterlife VR | older | $14.99 | 174 82% | 5.2k | $78k (exactly $78,248) | Split Light Studio |
 | Melon Simulator™ | $4.99 | 74 85% | 2.2k | $11k (exactly $11,078) | Delirious & Co. | |
 | Hellfire Rampage VR | $9.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | Nazar Korinnyi | |
 | The Final Shuffle | $5.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $719 (exactly $719) | KaashFusionStudio | |
 | BattleHeights | · EA | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Wondersoft Studio |
 | Ninja Arena | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Lunar Code Studio | |
 | Ninja Vs Bomb | $3.00 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Sprem |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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