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Should I ship a Grid-Based Movement Runner?
Grid-Based Movement + Runner
Only 13 developers shipped a Grid-Based Movement Runner 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, Tetro Runner, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 5 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $0 in the last 2 years and $30 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 3 / 10 build. 10 developers shipped in the last year and 5 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $0 (exactly $0) |
| Top 25% | $90 (exactly $90) |
| Top 5% | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 5 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $2.99 |
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 235% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 23%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Grid-Based Movement
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Runner
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Grid-Based Movement, Runner
- Price point
- $2.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 6 games average 91% positive over 11 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 5 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
PathBlasters 2024 · $9.0k 
SUPER Dungeon Muncher 2024 · $6.2k 
Flying Soldiers 2020 · $4.9k 
We See You 2022 · $2.9k 
Highway of death 2018 · $2.1k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | PathBlasters | older | $11.99 | 25 92% | 750 | $9.0k (exactly $8,992) | Sine Coda |
| | SUPER Dungeon Muncher | older | $3.99 | 52 61% | 1.6k | $6.2k (exactly $6,224) | n_nexy |
| | Flying Soldiers | older | $17.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $4.9k (exactly $4,857) | WildSphere |
| | We See You | older | $6.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) | Paulius Giniotis |
| | Highway of death | older | $1.99 | 35 68% | 1.1k | $2.1k (exactly $2,090) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Tetro Runner | $9.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Rollmop Games Studio | |
 | Sole Survivor: Stages of Death | older | $3.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | WhaleWhistle |
 | Block Wizard | older | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Lefkos Savvides |
 | Warp Dash | $3.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Adweb | |
 | Gravity | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | VortexStudio | |
 | Cyber Sprinters | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Low-Poly Arcade | |
 | Miner to Die | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Mercimek Games | |
 | Infinite Bowling | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Alpex | |
 | King's Beat | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Mikko Savikko | |
 | PYRO | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Yanfer | |
 | Unbeatable Maze | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Logical Fun Games | |
 | snaze | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Double E |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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