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Should I ship a Twin Stick Shooter FPS?
FPS + Twin Stick Shooter
Only 10 developers shipped a Twin Stick Shooter 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, Bad Pixels, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced, ×3.3 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 $360 against a market of $1.5k. 10 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $180 (exactly $180) |
|---|---|
| Median | $358 (exactly $358) |
| Top 25% | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 5% | $7.9k (exactly $7,913) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 10 |
| 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 up 255% on the market, supply 55% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- FPS
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Twin Stick 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
- FPS, Twin Stick Shooter
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 91% positive over 48 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 per shipper.
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Comparable games
Guardians Frontline 2023 · $215k 
Guns'n'Stories: Bulletproof VR 2018 · $116k 
AHEGAL 2018 · $70k 
Bad Pixels 2026 · EA · $7.9k 
Aster Fpv Drone Simulator 2020 · $7.8k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Guardians Frontline | older | $24.99 | 287 83% | 8.6k | $215k (exactly $215,164) | VirtualAge |
| | Guns'n'Stories: Bulletproof VR | older | $9.99 | 387 87% | 12k | $116k (exactly $115,984) | MIROWIN |
| | AHEGAL | older | $1.99 | 1,165 88% | 35k | $70k (exactly $69,550) | OppaiMan 2D |
| | Bad Pixels | · EA | $11.99 | 22 95% | 660 | $7.9k (exactly $7,913) | Dadako |
| | Aster Fpv Drone Simulator | older | $19.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) | Emmanuel Perrillon |
 | Disputed Space | older | $1.99 | 80 61% | 2.4k | $4.8k (exactly $4,776) | ShilohGames |
 | ROBOCRACY | $11.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $3.2k (exactly $3,237) | DGMA | |
 | Pangman | older | $11.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $2.9k (exactly $2,878) | Ivanovich Games |
 | BattleTanks - Animal Wars | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Kasur Games | |
 | Dead Christmas | $14.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Mad Park Games | |
 | Brainrot Tung Tung Sahur | $1.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $358 (exactly $358) | Onlygames S.R.L. | |
 | Void Daggers | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | mobx.games | |
 | Circuit Runner | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | No Sleep Till Monday | |
 | Void Breaker | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | AA Mini Games Studio | |
 | KunlunWonderland | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | He WenYuan | |
 | The Drone Lord | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Ian Chambers |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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