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Should I ship a Mech Gun Customization game?
Gun Customization + Mechs
Only 12 developers shipped a Mech Gun Customization 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, The Forever Winter, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 32 more are announced, ×6.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $11k, ×18 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.7k; 1 in 20 cleared $19M, ×30624 the market median. Revenue is down 25% on the market; 32 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) |
|---|---|
| Median | $11k (exactly $11,301) |
| Top 25% | $510k (exactly $509,790) |
| Top 5% | $19M (exactly $19,231,987) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 32 |
| 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 down 25% on the market, supply 40% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 6%, 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
- Mechs
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Gun Customization
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 70% positive over 27,418 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.7k. 6 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 32 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Gun Customization with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Immersive SimPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Resource ManagementPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
Comparable games
The Forever Winter 2024 · EA · $19M 
M.A.S.S. Builder 2025 · $2.8M 
SAND LAND 2024 · $1.8M 
Vox Machinae 2022 · $1.1M 
Cavalry Girls 2023 · $675k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Forever Winter | · EA | $29.99 | 21,376 68% | 641k | $19M (exactly $19,231,987) | Fun Dog Studios |
| | M.A.S.S. Builder | $24.99 | 3,729 85% | 112k | $2.8M (exactly $2,795,631) | Vermillion Digital | |
| | SAND LAND | older | $59.99 | 1,018 86% | 31k | $1.8M (exactly $1,832,095) | ILCA, Inc. |
| | Vox Machinae | older | $29.99 | 1,177 87% | 35k | $1.1M (exactly $1,058,947) | Space Bullet Dynamics Corporation |
| | Cavalry Girls | older | $11.99 | 1,877 88% | 56k | $675k (exactly $675,157) | 中子星游戏研究所 |
 | EMPULSE | · EA | $9.99 | 1,701 60% | 51k | $510k (exactly $509,790) | 1047 Games |
 | BREAK ARTS II | older | $14.99 | 662 74% | 20k | $298k (exactly $297,701) | MercuryStudio |
 | Dreadhunter | · EA older | $24.99 | 141 77% | 4.2k | $106k (exactly $105,708) | Trickster Arts |
 | Time Treker | $6.99 | 399 65% | 12k | $84k (exactly $83,670) | Fuse Game | |
 | Nimbus INFINITY | older | $14.99 | 112 50% | 3.4k | $50k (exactly $50,366) | GameCrafterTeam, GameTomo Co., Ltd. |
 | Ghosts Keep Out | $3.99 | 130 75% | 3.9k | $16k (exactly $15,561) | Only Fun Games | |
 | M.O.O.D.S. | $12.99 | 29 82% | 870 | $11k (exactly $11,301) | StickyStoneStudio | |
 | Vehicle No. 4 | $6.99 | 23 86% | 690 | $4.8k (exactly $4,823) | indiejoh | |
 | AIRANBLADE | $8.99 | 17 94% | 510 | $4.6k (exactly $4,585) | ANIMABOX | |
 | Suit Up | $4.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | Awkward Wolf Studios Limited | |
 | Robot Fury: Mech Combat Simulator | · EA | $12.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $1.2k (exactly $1,169) | Hard Shark Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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