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Should I ship a Mythological Precision Platformer?
Precision Platformer + Mythology
Only 17 developers shipped a Mythological Precision Platformer 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, The Pale Piper, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 25 more are announced, ×3.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.2k, ×1.9 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $600; 1 in 20 cleared $12k, ×20 the market median. Revenue is up 115% on the market; 25 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) |
| Top 25% | $2.4k (exactly $2,395) |
| Top 5% | $13k (exactly $12,592) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 43 |
| Announced | 25 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 115% on the market, supply 30% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Precision Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Mythology
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Precision Platformer; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Platformer, 2D Platformer
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $12.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, 3D, Difficult
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $12.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 196 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 9 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 25 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Precision Platformer with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DemonsFair
- + FPSFair
- + GothicFair
- + HorrorFair
- + Character CustomizationFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Action RoguelikeFair
- + Time ManipulationFair
- + SandboxFair
- + Procedural GenerationFair
- + RPGFair
Comparable games
Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU 2024 · $539k 
The Game of Sisyphus 2024 · $155k 
Tiny Thor 2023 · $124k 
Volgarr the Viking II 2024 · $51k 
Aztech Forgotten Gods 2022 · $45k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Tales of Kenzera™: ZAU | older | $19.99 | 898 82% | 27k | $539k (exactly $538,531) | Surgent Studios |
| | The Game of Sisyphus | older | $6.99 | 741 79% | 22k | $155k (exactly $155,388) | cream |
| | Tiny Thor | older | $19.99 | 207 79% | 6.2k | $124k (exactly $124,138) | Asylum Square |
| | Volgarr the Viking II | older | $19.99 | 85 81% | 2.6k | $51k (exactly $50,974) | Digital Eclipse, Crazy Viking Studios |
| | Aztech Forgotten Gods | older | $29.99 | 50 66% | 1.5k | $45k (exactly $44,985) | Lienzo |
 | Escape from Naraka | older | $14.99 | 97 76% | 2.9k | $44k (exactly $43,621) | XeloGames |
 | Chronicles of 2 Heroes: Amaterasu's Wrath | older | $19.99 | 35 62% | 1.1k | $21k (exactly $20,990) | Infinity Experience |
 | The Pale Piper | $14.99 | 28 92% | 840 | $13k (exactly $12,592) | FreeTimeDev | |
 | Pyramidion | · EA | $4.99 | 71 85% | 2.1k | $11k (exactly $10,629) | TechDevAYDIN |
 | 鸿运修仙传 | $5.99 | 34 76% | 1.0k | $6.1k (exactly $6,110) | 玉米工作室 | |
 | Bones Beneath | $12.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $2.7k (exactly $2,728) | Blue Herb Software | |
 | Arrows and Antiquity | $4.99 | 16 87% | 480 | $2.4k (exactly $2,395) | True Neutral Studios | |
 | Super Miaoyin | $8.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $1.9k (exactly $1,888) | Hou Xiaohou | |
 | DESCENT: A Bunnyhopping Odyssey | $5.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $1.6k (exactly $1,617) | Sora | |
 | Arm of Satan: Chapter 1 | $7.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | Ludophoria | |
 | Wolf Knight Memoir | $4.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Phat Playing Panda | |
 | Gorgon's quest | $3.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.2k (exactly $1,197) | Swansong games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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