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Should I ship an Incremental Sokoban?
Sokoban + Incremental
Only 5 developers shipped an Incremental Sokoban 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, Mate'Morphosis, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 8 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 2 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $150 against a market of $120. 8 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $148 (exactly $148) |
| Top 25% | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 5% | $4.4k (exactly $4,395) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 2 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $2.99 |
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 300% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Sokoban
- effort 2 / 10 · high · grid pushing rules and level files
- Incremental
- effort 1 / 10 · high · formulas and upgrade tables
What it takes
- Effort
- 2 / 10 · static 2D art, simple logic
- Systems
- Sokoban, Incremental
- Price point
- $2.99 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 $1.99 or above; the middle game at $1.99.
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 3,131 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 8 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Sokoban with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + CollectathonFair
- + Turn-Based StrategyFair
- + CatsFair
- + LogicFair
- + Grid-Based MovementFair
- + PuzzleFair
- + ProgrammingFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + StrategyFair
- + Puzzle PlatformerFair
- + FuturisticLong shot
- + Open WorldPoor odds
Comparable games
Akin 2016 · $75k 
Seek Girl Ⅶ 2020 · $71k 
Seek Girl Ⅵ 2020 · $66k 
Fluffy Cubed 2021 · $5.8k 
Mate'Morphosis 2026 · $4.4k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Akin | older | $4.99 | 498 86% | 15k | $75k (exactly $74,551) | ThinkOfGames |
| | Seek Girl Ⅶ | older | $1.99 | 1,197 70% | 36k | $71k (exactly $71,461) | DSGame |
| | Seek Girl Ⅵ | older | $1.99 | 1,099 77% | 33k | $66k (exactly $65,610) | DSGame |
| | Fluffy Cubed | older | $1.99 | 97 93% | 2.9k | $5.8k (exactly $5,791) | Naoka Games |
| | Mate'Morphosis | $2.99 | 49 95% | 1.5k | $4.4k (exactly $4,395) | WiseMonkeES, Bruder Studio | |
 | Dungeon Slime 2: Puzzle in the Dark Forest | older | $1.99 | 45 97% | 1.4k | $2.7k (exactly $2,686) | Daniel Siqueira Abdelnur |
 | Hentai ASMR | older | $1.99 | 35 60% | 1.1k | $2.1k (exactly $2,090) | Boom Team |
 | Puzzle Light: Slide | older | $0.99 | 39 92% | 1.2k | $1.2k (exactly $1,158) | Waidy Andrade |
 | Chesskoban - Chess Puzzles | older | $0.99 | 39 94% | 1.2k | $1.2k (exactly $1,158) | Heimo Game Studio |
 | Chesskoban Bishop | older | $0.99 | 33 100% | 990 | $980 (exactly $980) | Heimo Game Studio |
 | Cat Block - Sliding Puzzle | $2.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | ZT-Studio | |
 | GridFiller | $0.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $148 (exactly $148) | AlchemistGame | |
 | Weapon Rearing | $0.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $119 (exactly $119) | JIYUTORISEI | |
 | CTR | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Pisuke |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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