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Should I ship a War On-Rails Shooter?
On-Rails Shooter + War
Only 11 developers shipped a War 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, Good Kill!, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.5k, ×2.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $660; 1 in 20 cleared $43k, ×70 the market median. Revenue is down 95% on the market; 11 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $657 (exactly $657) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) |
| Top 25% | $17k (exactly $17,498) |
| Top 5% | $44k (exactly $43,649) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 41 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 95% on the market, supply 75% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, 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
- War
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- On-Rails Shooter
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 70% positive over 299 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $660. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
On-Rails Shooter with a different setting or mood, 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 
IS Defense 2016 · $263k 
Crisis Brigade 2 reloaded 2021 · $194k 
Beach Invasion 1945 - Pacific 2023 · $76k 
Good Kill! 2024 · EA · $44k | 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 |
| | IS Defense | older | $5.99 | 1,465 91% | 44k | $263k (exactly $263,260) | Destructive Creations |
| | Crisis Brigade 2 reloaded | older | $19.99 | 324 84% | 9.7k | $194k (exactly $194,303) | Sumalab |
| | Beach Invasion 1945 - Pacific | older | $9.99 | 255 78% | 7.7k | $76k (exactly $76,424) | AIx2 Games |
| | Good Kill! | · EA | $13.99 | 104 68% | 3.1k | $44k (exactly $43,649) | gamegine |
 | BeachHead | older | $14.99 | 95 66% | 2.9k | $43k (exactly $42,722) | Digital Fusion Inc. |
 | Operation Night Strikers | $24.99 | 48 77% | 1.4k | $36k (exactly $35,986) | M2 Co., Ltd. | |
 | Heavy Fire: Afghanistan | older | $2.99 | 205 64% | 6.2k | $18k (exactly $18,388) | Teyon |
 | Beach Invasion 1915-Gallipoli | $7.99 | 73 71% | 2.2k | $17k (exactly $17,498) | AIx2 Games | |
 | Reload | older | $4.99 | 95 70% | 2.9k | $14k (exactly $14,222) | Top3Line s.r.o. |
 | The Danger Zone | $8.99 | 28 64% | 840 | $7.6k (exactly $7,552) | Haver | |
 | BeachHead Gold Edition | $6.99 | 22 50% | 660 | $4.6k (exactly $4,613) | Digital Fusion Inc. | |
 | Echo Wars - Road Rage | $9.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | Ivanovich Games | |
 | Alastrius: Star-Fighter | $11.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $1.1k (exactly $1,079) | Caledonia Interactive | |
 | EDM Ballistics | $1.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $657 (exactly $657) | MindFlow | |
 | Furball Over the Front | $4.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Page Blue House | |
 | Soviet Tide Arising! | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Page Blue House |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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