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Should I ship a Mythological Score Attack game?
Score Attack + Mythology
Only 19 developers shipped a Mythological Score Attack 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, Achilles: Survivor, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 30 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $480 in the last 2 years and $480 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 10 developers shipped in the last year and 30 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $479 (exactly $479) |
| Top 25% | $3.0k (exactly $2,967) |
| Top 5% | $392k (exactly $392,144) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 49 |
| Announced | 30 |
| 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 down 85% on the market, supply 10% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Score Attack
- 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
- Score Attack; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Bullet Hell, Combat
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Anime, Dark
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 1,659 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 8 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 30 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Score Attack with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + CookingFair
- + SuperheroFair
- + Female ProtagonistFair
- + GolfFair
- + GothicFair
- + ModernFair
- + Choose Your Own AdventureFair
- + UndergroundFair
Comparable games
Achilles: Survivor 2025 · $392k 
DaemonBride:ADDITIONAL GAIN 2025 · $56k 
The Tale of Onogoro 2022 · $50k 
Escape from Naraka 2021 · $44k 
Good Knight - One-Button Bullet-Hell 2021 · EA · $26k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Achilles: Survivor | $8.99 | 1,454 81% | 44k | $392k (exactly $392,144) | Dark Point Games | |
| | DaemonBride:ADDITIONAL GAIN | $19.99 | 94 82% | 2.8k | $56k (exactly $56,372) | Team Arcana, Kizawaya | |
| | The Tale of Onogoro | older | $34.99 | 48 79% | 1.4k | $50k (exactly $50,386) | AMATA Games |
| | Escape from Naraka | older | $14.99 | 97 76% | 2.9k | $44k (exactly $43,621) | XeloGames |
| | Good Knight - One-Button Bullet-Hell | · EA older | $14.99 | 57 94% | 1.7k | $26k (exactly $25,633) | Good Knight Collective |
 | Schildmaid MX | older | $14.99 | 33 90% | 990 | $15k (exactly $14,840) | HitP Studio |
 | Takkoman -Kouzatsu World- | older | $9.99 | 48 89% | 1.4k | $14k (exactly $14,386) | illuCalab |
 | Wunder: The Double-Sided Deckbuilder | · EA | $7.99 | 28 100% | 840 | $6.7k (exactly $6,712) | BumbleMumble |
 | Erogoddess: Mirage | $5.99 | 33 96% | 990 | $5.9k (exactly $5,930) | Moobly | |
 | Hermes: Tricks of Thanatos | older | $6.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $3.8k (exactly $3,775) | GameMixer |
 | Kimono Cats | $8.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $3.0k (exactly $2,967) | HumaNature Studios | |
 | Blasted Dice | $7.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $2.4k (exactly $2,397) | Rodrigo Serôdio | |
 | Seas of Hydra | $6.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $2.1k (exactly $2,097) | Caelen Trevino, Nicholas Schulz, Xavier… (Caelen Trevino, Nicholas Schulz, Xavier Cipriano, Jake Brooks, Aspen Causey) | |
 | Gorgon's quest | $3.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.2k (exactly $1,197) | Swansong games | |
 | Mining And Achievements 挖矿与成就 | $3.99 | 7 0% | 210 | $838 (exactly $838) | 贪玩狗工作室 | |
 | Call of Elmore | $7.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | Broadwood Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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