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Should I ship a Gun Customization Level Editor game?
Gun Customization + Level Editor
Only 6 developers shipped a Gun Customization Level Editor 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, Domain of Hallucination, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced, ×3.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $420 in the last 2 years and $420 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 18 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $419 (exactly $419) |
| Top 25% | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 5% | $628 (exactly $628) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 400% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 27%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Gun Customization
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Level Editor
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Gun Customization, Level Editor
- 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 4,893 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 18 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Pistol Whip 2019 · $3.2M 
No Plan B 2024 · $342k 
Siege of Centauri 2019 · $157k 
Destructive Physics - Destruction Simulator 2021 · $52k 
Groove Gunner 2022 · $15k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Pistol Whip | older | $29.99 | 3,586 94% | 108k | $3.2M (exactly $3,226,324) | Cloudhead Games Ltd. |
| | No Plan B | older | $14.99 | 761 86% | 23k | $342k (exactly $342,222) | GFX47 |
| | Siege of Centauri | older | $14.99 | 350 64% | 11k | $157k (exactly $157,395) | Stardock Entertainment |
| | Destructive Physics - Destruction Simulator | older | $19.99 | 87 78% | 2.6k | $52k (exactly $52,174) | KreizLand Games |
| | Groove Gunner | older | $16.99 | 30 83% | 900 | $15k (exactly $15,291) | BitCutter Studios Inc. |
 | Practical Shooting Simulator | · EA older | $29.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $7.2k (exactly $7,198) | 269th lab games softworks |
 | Geballer | older | $3.99 | 46 95% | 1.4k | $5.5k (exactly $5,506) | Stuffed Wombat, Inko, Niklas Ström |
 | GraveRun | · EA older | $7.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) | W@ Games |
 | Rogue Ascent VR | older | $9.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | Nooner Bear Studio LLC |
 | The Rewind Factory | older | $4.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Fire Dev |
 | Domain of Hallucination | · EA | $2.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Livio Cozzio, Marcel Schürch, Carla Wid… (Livio Cozzio, Marcel Schürch, Carla Widmer, Jonas Wiesli, rnaisa) |
 | AO: Containment Breach | · EA | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Prismatix- |
 | Mod Mage Mike | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | ZilpZilp Games | |
 | Attribute2 | $0.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | GreatZaochen | |
 | I Like to Dig | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Lisen Kaci | |
 | Cyber Spartan | · EA | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | PLICA GAMES |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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