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Should I ship a Mini Golf Strategy game?
Strategy + Mini Golf
Only 8 developers shipped a Mini Golf Strategy 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, Up to Par, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced, ×6.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $540 against a market of $630. 12 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $539 (exactly $539) |
| Top 25% | $8.4k (exactly $8,392) |
| Top 5% | $29k (exactly $29,385) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 12 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 65% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Strategy, Mini Golf
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 77,894 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 12 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.0 per shipper.
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Comparable games
Golf With Your Friends 2020 · $23M 
Golf It! 2023 · $6.7M 
GolfTopia 2021 · $286k 
Golf Peaks 2018 · $161k 
Golfie 2023 · $148k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Golf With Your Friends | older | $14.99 | 50,748 88% | 1.5M | $23M (exactly $22,821,376) | Blacklight Interactive, Team17 |
| | Golf It! | older | $8.99 | 24,695 90% | 741k | $6.7M (exactly $6,660,242) | Perfuse Entertainment |
| | GolfTopia | older | $19.99 | 477 95% | 14k | $286k (exactly $286,057) | MinMax Games Ltd. |
| | Golf Peaks | older | $4.99 | 1,076 95% | 32k | $161k (exactly $161,077) | Afterburn |
| | Golfie | older | $17.99 | 275 66% | 8.3k | $148k (exactly $148,418) | Triheart Studio |
 | Worms Crazy Golf | older | $9.99 | 407 82% | 12k | $122k (exactly $121,978) | Team17 Digital Ltd |
 | Pixel Golf Club | older | $29.99 | 40 80% | 1.2k | $36k (exactly $35,988) | Galactic Geckon |
 | Up to Par | $19.99 | 49 73% | 1.5k | $29k (exactly $29,385) | It's Anecdotal | |
 | Trivia Vault: Golf Trivia | older | $13.99 | 69 69% | 2.1k | $29k (exactly $28,959) | Ripknot Systems |
 | Forest Golf Planner | older | $8.99 | 58 74% | 1.7k | $16k (exactly $15,643) | Kairosoft Co.,Ltd |
 | Golf Gambit | · EA | $9.99 | 28 85% | 840 | $8.4k (exactly $8,392) | KB Entertainment |
 | Disc Dungeon | $9.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Fire Titan Games | |
 | Sycamore | $5.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $539 (exactly $539) | [untitledDev] | |
 | The Herd | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Levelhead Interactive | |
 | Physics Puzzle Ball | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | DotDot Games | |
 | Rocket Golf - Tap | · EA | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Stephen Rickman |
 | Mini Golf Simulator | · EA | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hard Shark Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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