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Should I ship an Underwater Logic game?
Logic + Underwater
Only 10 developers shipped an Underwater Logic 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, Power Sink, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced, ×2.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $480 in the last 2 years and $480 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 13 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $479 (exactly $479) |
| Top 25% | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) |
| Top 5% | $12k (exactly $11,692) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply as many developers as the period before.
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
- Underwater
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Logic
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 6 games average 86% positive over 50 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 per shipper.
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Comparable games
Microcosmum: survival of cells 2015 · $268k 
Lost Artifacts: Golden Island 2019 · $17k 
Underwater battles 2022 · $14k 
Tiny Bubbles 2018 · $13k 
Power Sink 2025 · $12k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Microcosmum: survival of cells | older | $7.99 | 1,117 80% | 34k | $268k (exactly $267,745) | Satur Entertainment |
| | Lost Artifacts: Golden Island | older | $14.99 | 37 72% | 1.1k | $17k (exactly $16,639) | Creobit, GameOn Production |
| | Underwater battles | older | $39.99 | 12 75% | 360 | $14k (exactly $14,396) | Stas Paty9mkin |
| | Tiny Bubbles | older | $9.99 | 44 90% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $13,187) | Pine Street Codeworks LLC |
| | Power Sink | $14.99 | 26 96% | 780 | $12k (exactly $11,692) | Winterwire Games | |
 | Neko Beach | older | $0.99 | 265 78% | 8.0k | $7.9k (exactly $7,870) | Yummy Yummy Studio |
 | Liquidum | older | $4.99 | 34 91% | 1.0k | $5.1k (exactly $5,090) | Marvellous Soft |
 | Animals Memory: Underwater Kingdom | older | $3.99 | 36 77% | 1.1k | $4.3k (exactly $4,309) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | SEARCH ALL - SEASHELLS | older | $2.99 | 48 89% | 1.4k | $4.3k (exactly $4,306) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Water Ball | older | $9.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Stas Paty9mkin |
 | New Yankee: Pirate Trap | $6.99 | 11 81% | 330 | $2.3k (exactly $2,307) | Alawar Casual | |
 | Meduziak | $9.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | Fieldfare Studios | |
 | Dive and Dine Simulator | · EA | $9.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Alessandro Muscente |
 | Killer Depths | $7.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | Stardust Smithy | |
 | It was beautiful | $1.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | Tudor Croitoru | |
 | Slightly Overweight Superhero and the seven levels of death | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Nathan Laird | |
 | Bubble Ball! | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Isaac Madsen | |
 | Pinchi-Stingi | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Opilio | |
 | bubble | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | prefowl |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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