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Should I ship a Horror Precision Platformer?
Precision Platformer + Horror
Of 68 developers who shipped a Horror Precision Platformer in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 69 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.0k, ×2.2 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $270. Revenue is down 10% on the market; 69 games are announced against 38 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $270 (exactly $270) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
| Top 25% | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) |
| Top 5% | $199k (exactly $198,747) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 68 |
| Released games | 167 |
| Announced | 69 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 10% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Precision Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Horror
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Precision Platformer; 9 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Platformer, Action, Adventure
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, Funny, Difficult
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 96% positive over 16,780 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $270. 9 in 10 of the 37 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 69 games are announced against 38 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Precision Platformer with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DemonsFair
- + FPSFair
- + GothicFair
- + Character CustomizationFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Action RoguelikeFair
- + Time ManipulationFair
- + SandboxFair
- + Procedural GenerationFair
- + RPGFair
- + Souls-likeLong shot
Comparable games
White Knuckle 2025 · EA · $6.8M 
Jump King 2019 · $4.8M 
A Difficult Game About Climbing 2024 · $1.6M 
SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell 2016 · $922k 
Luna Abyss 2026 · $830k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | White Knuckle | · EA | $16.99 | 13,356 98% | 401k | $6.8M (exactly $6,807,553) | Dark Machine Games |
| | Jump King | older | $12.99 | 12,342 90% | 370k | $4.8M (exactly $4,809,677) | Nexile |
| | A Difficult Game About Climbing | older | $9.99 | 5,399 87% | 162k | $1.6M (exactly $1,618,080) | Pontypants |
| | SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell | older | $14.99 | 2,050 95% | 62k | $922k (exactly $921,885) | Pine Studio |
| | Luna Abyss | $29.99 | 923 86% | 28k | $830k (exactly $830,423) | Kwalee Labs | |
 | They Bleed Pixels | older | $9.99 | 2,040 84% | 61k | $611k (exactly $611,388) | Spooky Squid Games Inc. |
 | Egging On | $14.99 | 747 74% | 22k | $336k (exactly $335,926) | Egobounds | |
 | BETON BRUTAL | older | $6.99 | 1,232 94% | 37k | $258k (exactly $258,350) | Jan Malitschek |
 | BAIONLENJA | · EA | $12.99 | 510 97% | 15k | $199k (exactly $198,747) | BAION |
 | LOVE ETERNAL | $9.99 | 453 96% | 14k | $136k (exactly $135,764) | brlka | |
 | PsiloSybil | $12.99 | 232 85% | 7.0k | $90k (exactly $90,410) | bad_vertex | |
 | Curiosity: A Cat Climbing Game | $9.99 | 220 96% | 6.6k | $66k (exactly $65,934) | DarkBear Studios, iNightGaming LLC | |
 | Stuck Together | $11.99 | 161 88% | 4.8k | $58k (exactly $57,912) | Hugecalf Studios | |
 | Turnip Mountain | $10.49 | 78 97% | 2.3k | $25k (exactly $24,547) | Luke Sanderson | |
 | Someday Youll Get There(언젠가는 도착해) | $7.99 | 100 97% | 3.0k | $24k (exactly $23,970) | After School Vtuber |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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