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Should I ship a Survival Horror Hero Shooter?
Hero Shooter + Survival Horror
Only 14 developers shipped a Survival 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, The Living Remain, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced, ×4.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 9 / 10 build.
Only 3 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. 14 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $360 (exactly $360) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) |
| Top 25% | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) |
| Top 5% | $173k (exactly $173,313) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 61 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 9 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 80% on the market, supply 75% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, 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
- Survival Horror
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 9 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Hero Shooter, Survival Horror; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Action-Adventure, Adventure
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Realistic, Atmospheric
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 75% positive over 1,062 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 7 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 14 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hero Shooter with a different second tag, 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
Them and Us 2021 · $1.5M 
RIPOUT 2024 · $470k 
Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque 2022 · $418k 
The Living Remain 2025 · $173k 
KUNKUN Defender 2024 · $74k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Them and Us | older | $39.99 | 1,216 76% | 36k | $1.5M (exactly $1,458,835) | TendoGames Co., Ltd. |
| | RIPOUT | older | $19.99 | 783 65% | 23k | $470k (exactly $469,565) | Pet Project Games |
| | Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque | older | $14.99 | 930 96% | 28k | $418k (exactly $418,221) | Nidal Nijm Games |
| | The Living Remain | $19.99 | 289 79% | 8.7k | $173k (exactly $173,313) | Five Finger Studios | |
| | KUNKUN Defender | older | $2.99 | 822 97% | 25k | $74k (exactly $73,733) | Seal |
 | Fossilfuel | older | $14.99 | 153 70% | 4.6k | $69k (exactly $68,804) | DangerousBob Studio LLC |
 | Lust 'n Dead 🔞 | $9.99 | 212 66% | 6.4k | $64k (exactly $63,536) | Octo Games | |
 | KUNKUN Defender 2 | $4.99 | 294 94% | 8.8k | $44k (exactly $44,012) | Seal | |
 | LUST Eternal 🔞 | $4.99 | 212 55% | 6.4k | $32k (exactly $31,736) | Octo Games | |
 | Horror Legends | older | $4.99 | 113 88% | 3.4k | $17k (exactly $16,916) | October Games |
 | Cat Apocalypse | · EA | $9.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | Rocket Regios studios |
 | Hunter Moonstrike : Ai NPCs version | $15.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $1.9k (exactly $1,919) | 10nstudio | |
 | Horror in the forest | $29.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Static Production | |
 | 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 | |
 | Hunt Skeletons Together | $0.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $446 (exactly $446) | cnsgames |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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