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Should I ship a Medieval Hero Shooter?
Hero Shooter + Medieval
Only 10 developers shipped a Medieval Hero 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, Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap, 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.
Verdict: long shot, for a 9 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $150, ×0.1 the market's $1.3k for a 9 / 10 build, but 1 in 20 cleared $3.6M, ×2707 the market median. Revenue is down 10% on the market; 12 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 25% | $2.5k (exactly $2,514) |
| Top 5% | $3.6M (exactly $3,646,484) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 9 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 10% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hero Shooter
- effort 9 / 10 · low · competitive netcode plus hero balance and content cadence
- Medieval
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 9 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Hero Shooter
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 69% positive over 4,095 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. 12 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Hero Shooter with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SimulationLong shot
- + Bullet HellLong shot
- + Boomer ShooterLong shot
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + SuperheroPoor odds
- + Battle RoyalePoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + PvPPoor odds
- + PlatformerPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + PhysicsPoor odds
- + AliensPoor odds
Comparable games
Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap 2025 · $3.6M 
Witch The Bloodlines 2018 · $12k 
Dice Knight: Mystery of the Moirai 2021 · $5.4k 
Middle Evil: The Priest 2024 · $5.2k 
HellEscape 2024 · $4.7k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Orcs Must Die! Deathtrap | $29.99 | 4,053 69% | 122k | $3.6M (exactly $3,646,484) | Robot Entertainment | |
| | Witch The Bloodlines | older | $14.99 | 27 40% | 810 | $12k (exactly $12,142) | Kerim Kumbasar |
| | Dice Knight: Mystery of the Moirai | older | $11.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Die of Death Games |
| | Middle Evil: The Priest | older | $5.99 | 29 93% | 870 | $5.2k (exactly $5,211) | diedemor studio |
| | HellEscape | older | $3.99 | 39 74% | 1.2k | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) | RogoNess |
 | Iron Age | older | $4.99 | 28 71% | 840 | $4.2k (exactly $4,192) | GeoTECH |
 | HEARTDUST | · EA | $6.99 | 17 94% | 510 | $3.6k (exactly $3,565) | Heartbyte Studios |
 | Rilla Shotgun | · EA older | $7.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) | SpaceRex Games |
 | Valkyrie Champions | older | $3.99 | 26 69% | 780 | $3.1k (exactly $3,112) | Valorware |
 | Super Weapon Master 超级武器大师 | $3.99 | 21 57% | 630 | $2.5k (exactly $2,514) | Idea Cat | |
 | Accurate Adjacent Ballistics Simulator | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | MagusForge | |
 | The Christopher Redemption - I | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Secernate Games Private Limited | |
 | Crusader | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Recoil Mojo | |
 | Band of Heroes | · EA | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | VoltNight Studios |
 | Clash at the Crossroads | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Tevniyal Studios | |
 | Flip Crystal League | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Judox Studio | |
 | TD Master | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Martin Vaupell Christensen |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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