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Should I ship a Shoot 'Em Up Immersive Sim?
Immersive Sim + Shoot 'Em Up
Only 16 developers shipped a Shoot 'Em Up Immersive Sim 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, Split Second VR Tactical Shooter, 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.
Verdict: dead, for a 8 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $30 in the last 2 years and $59 over 4, against a market of $1.5k for a 8 / 10 build. 8 developers shipped in the last year and 11 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $30 (exactly $30) |
| Top 25% | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 5% | $15k (exactly $14,685) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 48 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 10%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Immersive Sim
- effort 8 / 10 · low · effort 8 sits in the low band
- Shoot 'Em Up
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Immersive Sim, Shoot 'Em Up
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 44% positive over 63 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Immersive Sim with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVStrong odds
- + Trading Card GameStrong odds
- + MinigamesStrong odds
- + WesternStrong odds
- + BoxingStrong odds
- + Job SimulatorFair
- + Asynchronous MultiplayerFair
- + Dating SimFair
- + RomanceFair
- + LGBTQ+Fair
- + Visual NovelFair
- + Split ScreenFair
Comparable games
Project Gunship 2022 · EA · $376k 
1976 - Back to midway 2020 · $58k 
Hell Road VR 2021 · $36k 
Insiders 2021 · $17k 
Split Second VR Tactical Shooter 2025 · EA · $15k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Project Gunship | · EA older | $14.99 | 836 75% | 25k | $376k (exactly $375,949) | Sklorite Studios LLC |
| | 1976 - Back to midway | older | $14.99 | 128 89% | 3.8k | $58k (exactly $57,562) | Ivanovich Games |
| | Hell Road VR | older | $19.99 | 60 85% | 1.8k | $36k (exactly $35,982) | Travolab Replay |
| | Insiders | older | $13.99 | 40 80% | 1.2k | $17k (exactly $16,788) | ANG People s.r.o. |
| | Split Second VR Tactical Shooter | · EA | $9.99 | 49 38% | 1.5k | $15k (exactly $14,685) | Robertson Gaming Studios |
 | BARRAGE / 铁幕 | older | $4.99 | 53 86% | 1.6k | $7.9k (exactly $7,934) | ChronoYuki |
 | Freediving Hunter Spearfishing the World | older | $19.99 | 11 72% | 330 | $6.6k (exactly $6,597) | Strongbox3d |
 | Hunkenstein | older | $7.99 | 22 72% | 660 | $5.3k (exactly $5,273) | Oubliette |
 | OLD SKOOL RACER | older | $19.99 | 6 0% | 180 | $3.6k (exactly $3,598) | Karma Play Limited |
 | Rick Henderson | older | $4.99 | 24 95% | 720 | $3.6k (exactly $3,593) | Fat Pug Studio |
 | Bread or Dead | · EA | $6.99 | 4 25% | 120 | $839 (exactly $839) | Paul Wallace, John Wallace |
 | Medic Simulator: Combat Zone | · EA | $11.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $360 (exactly $360) | Code Lab |
 | Accurate Adjacent Ballistics Simulator | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | MagusForge | |
 | Dinosaur Zoo VR : Dinosaur Hunting | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | dani360_studios | |
 | Void Breaker | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | AA Mini Games Studio | |
 | Molodoy Simulator | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Erich Meurer | |
 | ULTRA X-TREME HUNTING SIMULATOR 2001 | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Ref | |
 | VR Wilderness Survival | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | 夜行者, night walker | |
 | Fight Flight | $16.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | BoomerGames |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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