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Should I ship a Logic Shoot 'Em Up?
Shoot 'Em Up + Logic
Only 10 developers shipped a Logic Shoot 'Em Up 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, CPU Invaders - Aim Hero, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240 in the last 2 years and $210 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 3 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 10 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $240 (exactly $240) |
| Top 25% | $1.2k (exactly $1,197) |
| Top 5% | $1.6k (exactly $1,574) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 615% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Shoot 'Em Up
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Logic
- effort 2 / 10 · high · deductive rules and grids
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Shoot 'Em Up, Logic
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 96% positive over 77 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
They Сame From Above 2021 · $12k 
Oik Memory 2017 · $7.2k 
Aegis Legends 2018 · EA · $4.8k 
Oik 5 2019 · $4.6k 
Bug Butcher 2022 · $4.3k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | They Сame From Above | older | $24.99 | 16 62% | 480 | $12k (exactly $11,995) | Piece Of Voxel |
| | Oik Memory | older | $0.99 | 243 86% | 7.3k | $7.2k (exactly $7,217) | Crew Lab |
| | Aegis Legends | · EA older | $4.99 | 32 90% | 960 | $4.8k (exactly $4,790) | Aurox Studios |
| | Oik 5 | older | $0.99 | 156 88% | 4.7k | $4.6k (exactly $4,633) | Crew Lab |
| | Bug Butcher | older | $4.99 | 29 72% | 870 | $4.3k (exactly $4,341) | Chuvdji |
 | Mike's Arcade | older | $7.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $2.9k (exactly $2,876) | Mike Sedore |
 | Go, Go Cowboy | older | $4.99 | 17 82% | 510 | $2.5k (exactly $2,545) | PhoenixFire Games |
 | Novi Cube | older | $1.99 | 34 79% | 1.0k | $2.0k (exactly $2,030) | Rand.Exe Studios |
 | CPU Invaders - Aim Hero | $0.99 | 53 100% | 1.6k | $1.6k (exactly $1,574) | Microblast Games | |
 | Doomsday Tower Defense | $15.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) | Urban Isotope | |
 | Dyno Burst: Bubble Shooter | $3.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.2k (exactly $1,197) | Popoko VM Games | |
 | Chromadi | · EA | $3.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $838 (exactly $838) | Kleanup Games |
 | Shuriken Practice 3 | $7.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | myBad Studios | |
 | Along the Edge of the Sky | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Dark Star Nova | |
 | Astro Raid | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Coding Alpaka | |
 | Abrez | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Haruka Nitaka, S.Daas, Tony Tutty, Suss… (Haruka Nitaka, S.Daas, Tony Tutty, Sussanne Beaujeu, T.Beaujeu) | |
 | Slightly Overweight Superhero and the seven levels of death | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Nathan Laird | |
 | Cursor Blast | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | NRZGAMES |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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