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Should I ship a Puzzle Lemmings game?
Lemmings + Puzzle
Only 13 developers shipped a Puzzle Lemmings game 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, Craftlings, 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: fair, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $960, ×2.0 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $120. Revenue is up 505% on the market; 11 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $959 (exactly $959) |
| Top 25% | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) |
| Top 5% | $187k (exactly $186,507) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 66 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 up 505% on the market, supply 15% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Lemmings, Puzzle; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Building, City Builder, Logic
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Relaxing, 3D, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 440 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Lemmings with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Puzzle PlatformerDead
- + ActionDead
- + StrategyDead
- + PhysicsDead
- + AdventureDead
- + PlatformerDead
Comparable games
Zombie Night Terror 2016 · $1.3M 
HUMANITY 2023 · $439k 
Contraption Maker 2014 · $359k 
Craftlings 2026 · $187k 
Tethered 2017 · $114k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Zombie Night Terror | older | $12.99 | 3,352 93% | 101k | $1.3M (exactly $1,306,274) | NoClip |
| | HUMANITY | older | $29.99 | 488 92% | 15k | $439k (exactly $439,054) | tha ltd., Enhance |
| | Contraption Maker | older | $12.99 | 922 92% | 28k | $359k (exactly $359,303) | Kevin Ryan |
| | Craftlings | $19.99 | 311 86% | 9.3k | $187k (exactly $186,507) | ARIANO Games GmbH | |
| | Tethered | older | $18.99 | 200 81% | 6.0k | $114k (exactly $113,940) | Secret Sorcery Limited |
 | Cargo! The Quest for Gravity | older | $9.99 | 312 83% | 9.4k | $94k (exactly $93,506) | Ice-Pick Lodge |
 | Moons Of Darsalon | older | $19.67 | 131 78% | 3.9k | $77k (exactly $77,303) | Dr. Kucho! Games |
 | MouseCraft | older | $9.99 | 200 85% | 6.0k | $60k (exactly $59,940) | Crunching Koalas |
 | Flockers™ | older | $9.99 | 158 76% | 4.7k | $47k (exactly $47,353) | Team17 Digital Ltd |
 | Tin Hearts | older | $19.99 | 75 85% | 2.3k | $45k (exactly $44,978) | Rogue Sun |
 | Tempopo | $19.99 | 39 97% | 1.2k | $23k (exactly $23,388) | Witch Beam | |
 | Grooveyard | $4.99 | 35 100% | 1.1k | $5.2k (exactly $5,240) | GuavaGoose Games | |
 | For the Crown | $9.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | Gierki Dev | |
 | Nickelodeon Splat Pack | $14.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $2.7k (exactly $2,698) | Mighty Rabbit Studios | |
 | Inflatum | $8.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.6k (exactly $1,618) | Michael Henderson, Inflatum Forum, Infl… (Michael Henderson, Inflatum Forum, Inflatum Announcements) | |
 | Pit Pioneers | $7.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $959 (exactly $959) | Shearware | |
 | Mine Safety | $0.99 | 27 100% | 810 | $802 (exactly $802) | DIG Games | |
 | Royal Impostor | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Maylop Games | |
 | Population Goals! | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Thirty55 Design |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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