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Should I ship a Nature Precision Platformer?
Precision Platformer + Nature
Of 93 developers who shipped a Nature Precision Platformer in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 114 more are announced, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $480 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 3 / 10 build. 53 developers shipped in the last year and 114 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $2.2k (exactly $2,246) |
| Top 5% | $18k (exactly $17,988) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 93 |
| Released games | 242 |
| Announced | 114 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 65% on the market, supply 30% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Precision Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Nature
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Precision Platformer; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Platformer, Adventure, Action
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Colorful, 2D, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 79% positive over 1,010 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 9 in 10 of the 52 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 114 games are announced against 53 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 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
BETON BRUTAL 2023 · $258k 
PsiloSybil 2024 · $90k 
Curiosity: A Cat Climbing Game 2025 · $66k 
Archaeogem 2024 · $64k 
Brush Burial 2023 · $58k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | BETON BRUTAL | older | $6.99 | 1,232 94% | 37k | $258k (exactly $258,350) | Jan Malitschek |
| | PsiloSybil | $12.99 | 232 85% | 7.0k | $90k (exactly $90,410) | bad_vertex | |
| | Curiosity: A Cat Climbing Game | $9.99 | 220 96% | 6.6k | $66k (exactly $65,934) | DarkBear Studios, iNightGaming LLC | |
| | Archaeogem | older | $9.99 | 214 85% | 6.4k | $64k (exactly $64,136) | Gagonfe, HugoBDesigner |
| | Brush Burial | older | $6.99 | 276 87% | 8.3k | $58k (exactly $57,877) | Knife Demon Software |
 | The Shape of Things | older | $6.99 | 267 88% | 8.0k | $56k (exactly $55,990) | Hyper Three Studio |
 | Unrooted | older | $15.99 | 101 85% | 3.0k | $48k (exactly $48,450) | 85 Plus Games |
 | Protodroid DeLTA | older | $19.99 | 74 72% | 2.2k | $44k (exactly $44,378) | Adam Kareem |
 | Galumb | $7.99 | 148 28% | 4.4k | $35k (exactly $35,476) | OB | |
 | Dangerous Mountain Together | $4.99 | 164 73% | 4.9k | $25k (exactly $24,551) | Çağatay Demir, Doğukan Şahin | |
 | A Fox Tale | $14.99 | 40 97% | 1.2k | $18k (exactly $17,988) | Danny Peet | |
 | Smack Monkey | $9.99 | 32 100% | 960 | $9.6k (exactly $9,590) | DrDrub | |
 | Don't Pop The Balloon | $4.99 | 57 98% | 1.7k | $8.5k (exactly $8,533) | Emirhan ÇAT, Bedirhan ÇAT | |
 | Bat to Bed | · EA | $3.99 | 64 82% | 1.9k | $7.7k (exactly $7,661) | Brothers Make Games |
 | I HATE MY LEGS | $10.99 | 17 100% | 510 | $5.6k (exactly $5,605) | Subhumans Studio | |
 | Dragon Hop | $4.99 | 36 100% | 1.1k | $5.4k (exactly $5,389) | Dustrider Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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