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Should I ship a Post-apocalyptic Logic game?
Logic + Post-apocalyptic
Of 33 developers who shipped a Post-apocalyptic Logic game 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.. 60 more are announced, ×3.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×1.1 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240; 1 in 20 cleared $100k, ×160 the market median. Revenue is up 55% on the market; 60 games are announced against 16 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $719 (exactly $719) |
| Top 25% | $4.6k (exactly $4,641) |
| Top 5% | $101k (exactly $100,543) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 33 |
| Released games | 78 |
| Announced | 60 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 55% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Logic
- effort 2 / 10 · high · deductive rules and grids
- Post-apocalyptic
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Logic; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Puzzle, Exploration
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, 2D, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 1,899 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 8 in 10 of the 19 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 60 games are announced against 16 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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XCOM® 2 2016 · $48M 
The Talos Principle 2 2023 · $11M 
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The Light Remake 2020 · $219k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | XCOM® 2 | older | $19.99 | 79,998 84% | 2.4M | $48M (exactly $47,974,801) | Firaxis Games, Feral Interactive (Mac),… (Firaxis Games, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)) |
| | The Talos Principle 2 | older | $29.99 | 12,478 94% | 374k | $11M (exactly $11,226,457) | Croteam |
| | The Talos Principle: Reawakened | $39.99 | 1,085 90% | 33k | $1.3M (exactly $1,301,674) | Croteam | |
| | The Signal State | older | $19.99 | 649 86% | 19k | $389k (exactly $389,205) | Reckoner Industries |
| | The Light Remake | older | $4.99 | 1,462 87% | 44k | $219k (exactly $218,861) | Носков Сергей |
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 | Remoteness | older | $19.99 | 98 61% | 2.9k | $59k (exactly $58,771) | KR Games |
 | Rauniot | older | $14.99 | 130 86% | 3.9k | $58k (exactly $58,461) | Act Normal Games |
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 | 60 Minutes to Extinction: Escape Room | $7.99 | 153 82% | 4.6k | $37k (exactly $36,674) | mc2games | |
 | Puzzle Depot | $19.99 | 61 100% | 1.8k | $37k (exactly $36,582) | Laughing Manatee Games | |
 | Golemworks | $6.99 | 82 90% | 2.5k | $17k (exactly $17,195) | evilalbert | |
 | Venice After Dark | $19.99 | 22 90% | 660 | $13k (exactly $13,193) | Sebastian Grünwald, Weltenwandler Desig… (Sebastian Grünwald, Weltenwandler Designagentur GmbH) | |
 | Zombies and Orcs | $9.99 | 16 62% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | Gamesforgames | |
 | Overencumbered In Another World | $4.99 | 31 100% | 930 | $4.6k (exactly $4,641) | Hawaiian Shirt Games | |
 | Filtration | $19.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $4.2k (exactly $4,198) | Whirligig Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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