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Should I ship a Music Twin Stick Shooter?
Twin Stick Shooter + Music
Only 6 developers shipped a Music 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, Look Mum No Computer, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 7 more are announced, ×7.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
Only 0 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $7.2k against a market of $480. 7 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $7.2k (exactly $7,193) |
| Top 25% | $16k (exactly $16,189) |
| Top 5% | $27k (exactly $26,982) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 7 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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: too few recent games to read.
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
- Music
- 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
- $9.99 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 $18.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 94% positive over 38,082 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 7 games are announced against 0 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.0 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
Bastion 2011 · $13M 
Beat Hazard 2010 · $1.5M 
Beat Hazard 2 2019 · $795k 
BDSM: Big Drunk Satanic Massacre 2019 · $668k 
Beat Hazard 3 2024 · $351k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Bastion | older | $14.99 | 28,223 95% | 847k | $13M (exactly $12,691,883) | Supergiant Games |
| | Beat Hazard | older | $9.99 | 5,072 95% | 152k | $1.5M (exactly $1,520,078) | Cold Beam Games |
| | Beat Hazard 2 | older | $18.99 | 1,396 89% | 42k | $795k (exactly $795,301) | Cold Beam Games |
| | BDSM: Big Drunk Satanic Massacre | older | $19.99 | 1,114 87% | 33k | $668k (exactly $668,066) | Big Way Games |
| | Beat Hazard 3 | older | $19.99 | 586 84% | 18k | $351k (exactly $351,424) | Cold Beam Games |
 | Beat Blast | older | $10.99 | 387 89% | 12k | $128k (exactly $127,594) | Woolly Walrus Games |
 | Savant - Ascent REMIX | older | $9.99 | 330 92% | 9.9k | $99k (exactly $98,901) | D-Pad Studio |
 | Tormentor❌Punisher | older | $7.99 | 304 92% | 9.1k | $73k (exactly $72,869) | E-Studio |
 | Lithium City | older | $7.99 | 286 92% | 8.6k | $69k (exactly $68,554) | Nico Tuason |
 | Polygoneer | older | $4.99 | 384 85% | 12k | $57k (exactly $57,485) | NukGames |
 | Look Mum No Computer | $14.99 | 60 98% | 1.8k | $27k (exactly $26,982) | The Bitfather | |
 | Aaero2 | $14.99 | 36 94% | 1.1k | $16k (exactly $16,189) | Mad Fellows | |
 | KILLBEAT | $9.99 | 24 100% | 720 | $7.2k (exactly $7,193) | Kalma Games | |
 | Heartbeats | $3.99 | 17 94% | 510 | $2.0k (exactly $2,035) | First Impact Studio | |
 | Chroma Blasters | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Atomic Elk | |
 | EAGLE: Special Forces | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | AKIMBO |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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