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Shooter + God Game
Only 6 developers shipped a God Game 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, Fox Sex Farm, 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, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $270 in the last 2 years and $270 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 12 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $270 (exactly $270) |
| Top 25% | $9.5k (exactly $9,524) |
| Top 5% | $223k (exactly $222,896) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Shooter, God Game
- Price point
- $8.99 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 $17.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 10,197 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 12 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dating SimFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + VampiresFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Match 3Fair
- + SnowFair
- + Boss RushFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + ArcadeLong shot
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
Comparable games
Fox Sex Farm 2025 · $223k 
Bean Battles 2018 · $201k 
[ECHOSTASIS] 2024 · $129k 
TYRONE vs COPS 2022 · $65k 
Warbox Sandbox 2022 · $59k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Fox Sex Farm | $17.99 | 413 82% | 12k | $223k (exactly $222,896) | R's | |
| | Bean Battles | older | $0.99 | 6,783 94% | 203k | $201k (exactly $201,455) | Gupa Games |
| | [ECHOSTASIS] | older | $19.99 | 215 90% | 6.5k | $129k (exactly $128,935) | ENIGMA STUDIO |
| | TYRONE vs COPS | older | $0.99 | 2,201 94% | 66k | $65k (exactly $65,370) | Team SNEED |
| | Warbox Sandbox | older | $6.99 | 279 78% | 8.4k | $59k (exactly $58,506) | Madar Games |
 | Gravity Badgers | older | $4.99 | 213 71% | 6.4k | $32k (exactly $31,886) | Wales Interactive |
 | Holy Shot | $5.99 | 53 84% | 1.6k | $9.5k (exactly $9,524) | LoneWolf Digital Arts | |
 | Exo Mayhem: A Supervillain Experience | older | $19.99 | 11 81% | 330 | $6.6k (exactly $6,597) | KomodoBit Games |
 | Metal Gunner | older | $9.99 | 19 73% | 570 | $5.7k (exactly $5,694) | KIMYS STUDIO |
 | StressOut | · EA older | $6.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $2.1k (exactly $2,097) | VRmadillo |
 | Vanishing In The Island Halphéra | $8.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $270 (exactly $270) | Soghoxal | |
 | DARK DANCE | · EA | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | NNIX Inc. |
 | The Light and the Shadow | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | EnrolaDev | |
 | Hades Hinderance | $10.50 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Tony Irvine |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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