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Should I ship a Life Sim Third-Person Shooter?
Third-Person Shooter + Life Sim
Only 16 developers shipped a Life Sim Third-Person 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, Sex Trainer's Diary: Hidden Kink, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 32 more are announced, ×3.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $630, ×0.4 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $180. 32 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper, while revenue is up 110% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $178 (exactly $178) |
|---|---|
| Median | $629 (exactly $629) |
| Top 25% | $10k (exactly $10,329) |
| Top 5% | $110k (exactly $110,345) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 42 |
| Announced | 32 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 110% on the market, supply 45% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Third-Person Shooter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Life Sim
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Third-Person Shooter, Life Sim; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Action, Immersive Sim
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Colorful, Comedy
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 67% positive over 435 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 32 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Third-Person Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RhythmStrong odds
- + WesternFair
- + CollectathonLong shot
- + Time ManagementLong shot
- + Walking SimulatorLong shot
- + Class-BasedPoor odds
- + Creature CollectorPoor odds
- + DinosaursPoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Alternate HistoryPoor odds
- + Level EditorPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
Comparable games
Saints Row®: The Third™ Remastered 2021 · $3.6M 
CUSTOM MECH WARS 2023 · $844k 
Sex Trainer's Diary: Hidden Kink 2026 · $110k 
Tru Or Die 2023 · $101k 
ScrewUp 2021 · $78k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Saints Row®: The Third™ Remastered | older | $29.99 | 3,968 73% | 119k | $3.6M (exactly $3,570,010) | Deep Silver Volition, Sperasoft |
| | CUSTOM MECH WARS | older | $49.99 | 563 41% | 17k | $844k (exactly $844,331) | D3PUBLISHER |
| | Sex Trainer's Diary: Hidden Kink | $19.99 | 184 70% | 5.5k | $110k (exactly $110,345) | 老二打鐵舖, 072 Localize, NOVA CONCEPT | |
| | Tru Or Die | older | $9.99 | 336 52% | 10k | $101k (exactly $100,699) | Tru Hunnit |
| | ScrewUp | older | $9.99 | 259 68% | 7.8k | $78k (exactly $77,622) | 199 Cents STUDIO |
 | Sex Shop Simulator: Sinful Girls | $7.99 | 57 43% | 1.7k | $14k (exactly $13,663) | Bits, Bytes & Sins | |
 | Valand | older | $7.99 | 54 59% | 1.6k | $13k (exactly $12,944) | LOMS Studio |
 | Apartment Story | $7.00 | 55 94% | 1.7k | $12k (exactly $11,550) | Blue Rider Interactive | |
 | Casino Boss Simulator | $4.99 | 69 56% | 2.1k | $10k (exactly $10,329) | Nons Games | |
 | Organic Burger Simulator | · EA | $14.99 | 12 58% | 360 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Mehmet Bilici, Hüseyin Doğan |
 | Money Theft 3 Last Mission | $4.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | Tero Lunkka, Valkeala Software | |
 | The Isolated | · EA | $0.99 | 33 66% | 990 | $980 (exactly $980) | STuNT |
 | Cockroach Simulation | $6.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | WIZWIN | |
 | 牛马模拟器 | · EA | $5.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $539 (exactly $539) | BossyuGames |
 | Big Theft Valkeala 2: San Piritori | $2.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Tero Lunkka, Valkeala Software |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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