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On-Rails Shooter + Top-Down Shooter
Only 8 developers shipped a Top-Down Shooter On-Rails 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, MagicCar of Delicious, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×5.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $60 against a market of $480. 20 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $60 (exactly $60) |
| Top 25% | $7.4k (exactly $7,368) |
| Top 5% | $7.8k (exactly $7,792) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 15400% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 6%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- On-Rails Shooter
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Top-Down Shooter
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- On-Rails Shooter, Top-Down 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $1.99.
The top 10 games average 67% positive over 739 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 20 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
On-Rails Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + CyberpunkFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + SimulationFair
- + Bullet TimeLong shot
- + RoguelitePoor odds
- + Bullet HellPoor odds
- + FuturisticPoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + RoguelikePoor odds
- + FantasyPoor odds
Comparable games
CYGNI: All Guns Blazing 2024 · $403k 
SHINORUBI 2024 · $12k 
MagicCar of Delicious 2025 · $7.8k 
Choo Choo Survivor 2 2025 · $7.4k 
Radioactive Dwarfs: Evil From The Sewers 2021 · $6.6k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | CYGNI: All Guns Blazing | older | $29.99 | 448 60% | 13k | $403k (exactly $403,066) | KeelWorks |
| | SHINORUBI | older | $24.99 | 16 50% | 480 | $12k (exactly $11,995) | Last Boss 88 |
| | MagicCar of Delicious | $9.99 | 26 76% | 780 | $7.8k (exactly $7,792) | YINGGUO GAME | |
| | Choo Choo Survivor 2 | $5.99 | 41 85% | 1.2k | $7.4k (exactly $7,368) | GTGD | |
| | Radioactive Dwarfs: Evil From The Sewers | older | $4.99 | 44 95% | 1.3k | $6.6k (exactly $6,587) | Slay Buherman |
 | I, AI | older | $3.99 | 53 67% | 1.6k | $6.3k (exactly $6,344) | Satur Entertainment |
 | REDSIDE episode 1 | older | $7.99 | 25 64% | 750 | $6.0k (exactly $5,992) | Energy Milk |
 | Astro Flame: Starfighter | $9.99 | 17 76% | 510 | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) | Satur Entertainment | |
 | Sniper Ships: Shoot'em Up on Rails | older | $4.99 | 22 86% | 660 | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) | Sensen Games |
 | 枪神出击 | older | $0.99 | 47 76% | 1.4k | $1.4k (exactly $1,396) | vk |
 | Let it ride! | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Retro Decadance | |
 | Void Breaker | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | AA Mini Games Studio | |
 | Bullet Voyage | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Wending Studio | |
 | Alien Shooters | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Frame Sixty LLC | |
 | Spinochet | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Juriklabs |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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