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Should I ship a Third-Person Shooter Open World Survival Craft?
Open World Survival Craft + Third-Person Shooter
Only 11 developers shipped a Third-Person Shooter Open World Survival Craft 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, Palworld, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 26 more are announced, ×6.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 9 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $120k against a market of $1.3k. 26 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $69k (exactly $68,609) |
|---|---|
| Median | $125k (exactly $124,871) |
| Top 25% | $1.4M (exactly $1,369,715) |
| Top 5% | $371M (exactly $370,628,716) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 26 |
| Effort | 9 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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 70% on the market, supply 45% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Open World Survival Craft
- effort 9 / 10 · low · dedicated multiplayer servers over a huge content build
- Third-Person Shooter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
What it takes
- Effort
- 9 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Open World Survival Craft, Third-Person Shooter
- Price point
- $14.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 453,283 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $69k. 3 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 26 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Open World Survival Craft with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + AutomationFair
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + Immersive SimPoor odds
- + PhysicsPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
- + MedievalPoor odds
- + ShooterPoor odds
- + PvPPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
Comparable games
Palworld 2026 · $371M 
Days Gone 2021 · $99M 
Deadside 2024 · $26M 
SurrounDead 2022 · EA · $8.8M 
DeadPoly 2022 · EA · $1.6M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Palworld | $29.99 | 411,947 94% | 12M | $371M (exactly $370,628,716) | Pocketpair | |
| | Days Gone | older | $39.99 | 82,655 92% | 2.5M | $99M (exactly $99,161,204) | Bend Studio |
| | Deadside | $24.99 | 34,560 76% | 1.0M | $26M (exactly $25,909,632) | Bad Pixel | |
| | SurrounDead | · EA older | $11.99 | 24,538 91% | 736k | $8.8M (exactly $8,826,319) | Zurvivor |
| | DeadPoly | · EA older | $9.99 | 5,384 78% | 162k | $1.6M (exactly $1,613,585) | TFL Games |
 | IfSunSets | · EA | $19.99 | 2,284 74% | 69k | $1.4M (exactly $1,369,715) | POLYMORPH |
 | DUCKSIDE | · EA | $14.99 | 2,692 72% | 81k | $1.2M (exactly $1,210,592) | tinyBuild Riga |
 | Plains of Pain | · EA older | $19.99 | 956 82% | 29k | $573k (exactly $573,313) | Cobra Byte Digital |
 | Bad 2 Bad: Apocalypse | $19.99 | 905 77% | 27k | $543k (exactly $542,728) | DAWINSTONE | |
 | How To Survive: Third Person Standalone | older | $9.99 | 1,134 56% | 34k | $340k (exactly $339,860) | Eko Software |
 | Afterinfection | $8.99 | 463 56% | 14k | $125k (exactly $124,871) | RePatrick21 | |
 | Not Quite Dead: Open World Survival | · EA | $12.99 | 218 61% | 6.5k | $85k (exactly $84,955) | Voidecho Studio |
 | Western Rye | · EA | $21.99 | 104 53% | 3.1k | $69k (exactly $68,609) | Nixalon Studios |
 | World Crafter TD | $14.99 | 70 48% | 2.1k | $31k (exactly $31,479) | Tbjbu2 | |
 | Shatterland | $7.99 | 40 62% | 1.2k | $9.6k (exactly $9,588) | LastPulse Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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