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Should I ship a Lovecraftian Twin Stick Shooter?
Twin Stick Shooter + Lovecraftian
Only 9 developers shipped a Lovecraftian Twin Stick 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, Whisper Mountain Outbreak, 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: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.2k, ×2.5 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $580k, ×1222 the market median. Revenue is down 85% on the market; 11 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) |
| Top 25% | $12k (exactly $11,976) |
| Top 5% | $580k (exactly $580,314) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 down 85% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Twin Stick Shooter
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Lovecraftian
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Twin Stick Shooter
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 7,257 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 11 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Twin Stick Shooter with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Psychological HorrorFair
- + Looter ShooterPoor odds
- + Bullet HeavenPoor odds
- + Tower DefensePoor odds
- + MedievalPoor odds
- + LootPoor odds
- + Action RPGPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
- + 2D FighterPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + DestructionPoor odds
Comparable games
Whisper Mountain Outbreak 2025 · EA · $580k 
QUICKERFLAK 2022 · $422k 
Tesla vs Lovecraft 2018 · $383k 
Lovecraft's Untold Stories 2019 · $305k 
Skautfold: Into the Fray 2018 · $25k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Whisper Mountain Outbreak | · EA | $7.99 | 2,421 84% | 73k | $580k (exactly $580,314) | Toge Productions |
| | QUICKERFLAK | older | $4.99 | 2,819 87% | 85k | $422k (exactly $422,004) | Walter Machado |
| | Tesla vs Lovecraft | older | $14.99 | 851 89% | 26k | $383k (exactly $382,695) | 10tons Ltd |
| | Lovecraft's Untold Stories | older | $14.99 | 678 78% | 20k | $305k (exactly $304,897) | LLC Blini Games |
| | Skautfold: Into the Fray | older | $9.99 | 85 89% | 2.6k | $25k (exactly $25,474) | Steve Gal |
 | Angelstruck | older | $5.99 | 117 94% | 3.5k | $21k (exactly $21,025) | Feral Paw |
 | Cthulhu's Reach: Devil Reef | $9.99 | 68 80% | 2.0k | $20k (exactly $20,380) | The Fine Arc | |
 | Monsters 'til Midnight | older | $4.99 | 93 83% | 2.8k | $14k (exactly $13,922) | Retro Dreamer |
 | When the Light Dies | $4.99 | 80 71% | 2.4k | $12k (exactly $11,976) | Electric Monkeys, Secret Level Studios | |
 | Disfigure | older | $5.99 | 45 93% | 1.4k | $8.1k (exactly $8,086) | Cold Brew Entertainment |
 | SeaQuestDungeon | $7.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | AlchemistGame | |
 | Still Space | $2.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) | Sofa Interactive | |
 | Lovecraft Survivors | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Threshold Games | |
 | Mutant Tide | · EA | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Saltghost |
 | Doomed Stars | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Mischief & Mayhem Studios | |
 | Defy The Abyss | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | BeWolf Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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