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Sports + On-Rails Shooter
Only 6 developers shipped an On-Rails Shooter Sports 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, Whisker Squadron: Survivor, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 4 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 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. 4 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $538 (exactly $538) |
| Top 25% | $4.6k (exactly $4,641) |
| Top 5% | $291k (exactly $290,854) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 4 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 down 50% on the market, supply as many developers as 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.
- Sports
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- On-Rails Shooter
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Sports, On-Rails Shooter
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $4.99.
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 1,480 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 4 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
New Retro Arcade: Neon 2016 · $347k 
Whisker Squadron: Survivor 2025 · $291k 
Viro Move 2021 · $17k 
Rocket Skates VR 2021 · $16k 
Reload 2015 · $14k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | New Retro Arcade: Neon | older | $19.99 | 579 78% | 17k | $347k (exactly $347,226) | Digital Cybercherries |
| | Whisker Squadron: Survivor | $19.99 | 485 77% | 15k | $291k (exactly $290,854) | Flippfly LLC | |
| | Viro Move | older | $24.99 | 23 43% | 690 | $17k (exactly $17,243) | FIT REALITY |
| | Rocket Skates VR | older | $9.99 | 53 81% | 1.6k | $16k (exactly $15,884) | EpiXR Games UG |
| | Reload | older | $4.99 | 95 70% | 2.9k | $14k (exactly $14,222) | Top3Line s.r.o. |
 | Candy Smash VR | older | $4.99 | 78 76% | 2.3k | $12k (exactly $11,677) | Wadup Games |
 | 69 Ways to Kill a Zombie | older | $4.99 | 70 64% | 2.1k | $10k (exactly $10,479) | Wadup Games |
 | BioCrisis | older | $2.99 | 73 93% | 2.2k | $6.5k (exactly $6,548) | Jim |
 | BangBang PewPew | older | $24.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $6.0k (exactly $5,998) | Molerat Digital Art Ltd. |
 | Dynamic Shooting VR | older | $9.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | Polyfun Games |
 | Moorhuhn 2 | $4.99 | 31 96% | 930 | $4.6k (exactly $4,641) | Higgs Games GmbH, GeekPit Studio | |
 | Moorhuhn Winter Edition | $4.99 | 20 90% | 600 | $3.0k (exactly $2,994) | Higgs Games GmbH, GeekPit Studio | |
 | Voodoo Pin | $2.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Type-B | |
 | Medieval Archer Simulator | · EA | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Hard Shark Games |
 | Bulletball | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Crosscades | |
 | Ding! Pocket It!: Rogue Simulator | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Handcrank Workshop |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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