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Should I ship a Psychological-Horror Hero Shooter?
Hero Shooter + Psychological Horror
Only 7 developers shipped a Psychological-Horror 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, Marathon, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced, ×5.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 9 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.8k against a market of $1.3k. 11 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $628 (exactly $628) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) |
| Top 25% | $44k (exactly $44,012) |
| Top 5% | $54M (exactly $53,889,324) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 11 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 60% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, 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
- Psychological Horror
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 9 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Hero Shooter
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $9.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 49,467 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $630. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hero Shooter with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SimulationLong shot
- + Bullet HellLong shot
- + Boomer ShooterLong shot
- + MedievalLong shot
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + SuperheroPoor odds
- + Battle RoyalePoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + PvPPoor odds
- + PlatformerPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + PhysicsPoor odds
Comparable games
Marathon 2026 · $54M 
KUNKUN Defender 2024 · $74k 
TYRONE vs COPS 2022 · $65k 
Grand Pigeon's Duty 2016 · $54k 
KUNKUN Defender 2 2025 · $44k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Marathon | $39.99 | 44,919 81% | 1.3M | $54M (exactly $53,889,324) | Bungie | |
| | KUNKUN Defender | older | $2.99 | 822 97% | 25k | $74k (exactly $73,733) | Seal |
| | TYRONE vs COPS | older | $0.99 | 2,201 94% | 66k | $65k (exactly $65,370) | Team SNEED |
| | Grand Pigeon's Duty | older | $3.99 | 448 76% | 13k | $54k (exactly $53,626) | WolfgangIs |
| | KUNKUN Defender 2 | $4.99 | 294 94% | 8.8k | $44k (exactly $44,012) | Seal | |
 | Rescue Operation | older | $3.99 | 253 87% | 7.6k | $30k (exactly $30,284) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Zombie Survivals [18+]🧟♀️🔞 | older | $3.99 | 180 61% | 5.4k | $22k (exactly $21,546) | Pirates Of The Digital Sea |
 | Last Village | older | $9.99 | 32 84% | 960 | $9.6k (exactly $9,590) | AK Studio |
 | H.E.N.T.A.L.K.E.R. | older | $0.99 | 301 78% | 9.0k | $8.9k (exactly $8,940) | Who We Are Games |
 | Dark Invasion VR: Doomsday | · EA older | $12.99 | 17 64% | 510 | $6.6k (exactly $6,625) | darksciencelab |
 | HEARTDUST | · EA | $6.99 | 17 94% | 510 | $3.6k (exactly $3,565) | Heartbyte Studios |
 | Arachnoid | $4.99 | 12 33% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | Horrid Vision LLC | |
 | Backrooms: The Yellow Dream | $2.99 | 7 71% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | Crow Games | |
 | Last Stand: Zombie Horde | $1.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $478 (exactly $478) | KOZGAMES | |
 | Losted Mind | $0.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $178 (exactly $178) | Dzianis Kazakou |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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