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Should I ship a Music Grid-Based Movement game?
Grid-Based Movement + Music
Only 7 developers shipped a Music Grid-Based Movement 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, GRIDbeat!, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $23k, ×48 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $480; 1 in 20 cleared $55k, ×117 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $478 (exactly $478) |
|---|---|
| Median | $23k (exactly $22,772) |
| Top 25% | $30k (exactly $29,987) |
| Top 5% | $56k (exactly $55,772) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 150% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Grid-Based Movement
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Music
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Grid-Based Movement
- Price point
- $6.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 1,029 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $480. 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Grid-Based Movement with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Felix The Reaper 2019 · $65k 
GRIDbeat! 2026 · $56k 
Temple Of Snek 2023 · $46k 
Zen Garden 2017 · $41k 
KAZ 2026 · $30k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Felix The Reaper | older | $9.99 | 217 80% | 6.5k | $65k (exactly $65,035) | Kong Orange |
| | GRIDbeat! | $19.99 | 93 100% | 2.8k | $56k (exactly $55,772) | Ridiculous Games | |
| | Temple Of Snek | older | $14.99 | 102 90% | 3.1k | $46k (exactly $45,869) | Aetheric Games |
| | Zen Garden | older | $9.99 | 136 73% | 4.1k | $41k (exactly $40,759) | 300 fps |
| | KAZ | $6.99 | 143 94% | 4.3k | $30k (exactly $29,987) | Kalinarm | |
 | Tempopo | $19.99 | 39 97% | 1.2k | $23k (exactly $23,388) | Witch Beam | |
 | Swan Song | $7.99 | 95 96% | 2.9k | $23k (exactly $22,772) | Business Goose Studios | |
 | Hentai Boy | older | $4.99 | 131 79% | 3.9k | $20k (exactly $19,611) | Hentai X |
 | Dreamsweeper | older | $9.99 | 38 76% | 1.1k | $11k (exactly $11,389) | Etherlight, Oatmello |
 | Highway of death | older | $1.99 | 35 68% | 1.1k | $2.1k (exactly $2,090) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Thirsty Bird | · EA | $1.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $478 (exactly $478) | Ben Sulzinsky |
 | ELLUSION | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Project Oops! | |
 | Drawtris | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | elcanogames, LunaVioleta Estudios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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