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Should I ship a Military Twin Stick Shooter?
Twin Stick Shooter + Military
Only 12 developers shipped a Military 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, Cleared Hot, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 40 more are announced, ×8.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 40 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $748 (exactly $748) |
| Top 5% | $2.1M (exactly $2,123,180) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 47 |
| Announced | 40 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 up 80% on the market, supply 30% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, 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
- Military
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Twin Stick Shooter
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 96% positive over 4,033 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 40 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×8.0 per shipper.
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
War Mongrels 2021 · $2.5M 
Cleared Hot 2025 · EA · $2.1M 
Furious Angels 2017 · $52k 
DESTRUCTURE: Among Debris 2023 · $47k 
Naval Warfare 2011 · $40k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | War Mongrels | older | $44.99 | 1,826 72% | 55k | $2.5M (exactly $2,464,552) | Destructive Creations |
| | Cleared Hot | · EA | $17.99 | 3,934 96% | 118k | $2.1M (exactly $2,123,180) | Not Knowing Corporation |
| | Furious Angels | older | $4.99 | 345 87% | 10k | $52k (exactly $51,646) | MorfeoDev |
| | DESTRUCTURE: Among Debris | older | $9.99 | 158 90% | 4.7k | $47k (exactly $47,353) | Team Instant Defeat |
| | Naval Warfare | older | $6.99 | 189 58% | 5.7k | $40k (exactly $39,633) | Game Distillery s.r.o. |
 | Blackwind | older | $24.99 | 46 52% | 1.4k | $34k (exactly $34,486) | Drakkar Dev |
 | Son of a Gun | $9.99 | 80 78% | 2.4k | $24k (exactly $23,976) | Crank Goblin | |
 | Cloud Cutter | older | $7.99 | 98 85% | 2.9k | $23k (exactly $23,491) | Just Two ltd. |
 | Tanky Tanks 2 | older | $9.99 | 45 100% | 1.4k | $13k (exactly $13,486) | EpiXR Games UG |
 | Die Again | older | $12.99 | 31 90% | 930 | $12k (exactly $12,081) | VarnGameDev |
 | Tacticell Arena | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Antheed | |
 | Frame Machina - OcularZero | $3.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | Demigrz | |
 | Dead Christmas | $14.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Mad Park Games | |
 | DreadHold | · EA | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Sam Parton, Tecno |
 | Blitz Society | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Ryan Evans | |
 | Breaching Harkon | $2.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | 8x8BitGames, Connor Langan | |
 | One Shot All Kill | $1.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | Creative Universe | |
 | Escape the Kreegan | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Entropy Is Software Development |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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