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Parkour + Puzzle Platformer
Of 126 developers who shipped a Puzzle Platformer Parkour game 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.. 179 more are announced, ×2.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $540, ×0.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120; 1 in 20 cleared $41k, ×67 the market median. Revenue is flat on the market; 179 games are announced against 61 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $538 (exactly $538) |
| Top 25% | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) |
| Top 5% | $42k (exactly $41,940) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 126 |
| Released games | 375 |
| Announced | 179 |
| 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 flat on the market, supply 10% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Parkour
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Puzzle Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Parkour, Puzzle Platformer; 7 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Platformer, 3D Platformer
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Funny, 3D, Third Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 6,401 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 9 in 10 of the 82 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 179 games are announced against 61 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Parkour with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + CatsPoor odds
- + DestructionPoor odds
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Comparable games
Human Fall Flat 2016 · $105M 
Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst 2020 · $8.4M 
Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time 2008 · $1.5M 
Refunct 2015 · $1.4M 
Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered 2025 · $1.4M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Human Fall Flat | older | $19.99 | 174,835 94% | 5.2M | $105M (exactly $104,848,549) | No Brakes Games |
| | Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst | older | $19.99 | 14,078 79% | 422k | $8.4M (exactly $8,442,577) | DICE |
| | Prince of Persia®: The Sands of Time | older | $9.99 | 5,045 85% | 151k | $1.5M (exactly $1,511,986) | Kudosoft |
| | Refunct | older | $2.99 | 16,016 96% | 480k | $1.4M (exactly $1,436,635) | Dominique Grieshofer |
| | Tomb Raider IV-VI Remastered | $29.99 | 1,507 89% | 45k | $1.4M (exactly $1,355,848) | Aspyr, Crystal Dynamics | |
 | N++ (NPLUSPLUS) | older | $14.99 | 2,825 95% | 85k | $1.3M (exactly $1,270,402) | Metanet Software Inc. |
 | SEUM: Speedrunners from Hell | older | $14.99 | 2,050 95% | 62k | $922k (exactly $921,885) | Pine Studio |
 | Climber Animals: Together | older | $3.99 | 6,014 73% | 180k | $720k (exactly $719,876) | Devotion Interactive |
 | DeadCore | older | $9.99 | 1,584 85% | 48k | $475k (exactly $474,725) | 5 Bits Games |
 | Carry The Glass | $4.99 | 2,839 75% | 85k | $425k (exactly $424,998) | Çağatay Demir, Enes Kaplan | |
 | Everdeep Aurora | $19.99 | 177 89% | 5.3k | $106k (exactly $106,147) | Nautilus Games | |
 | Log Riders | $4.99 | 660 70% | 20k | $99k (exactly $98,802) | Bluespy Studios | |
 | Frog Sqwad 🐸 | $7.99 | 352 72% | 11k | $84k (exactly $84,374) | Panic Stations | |
 | Human Fall Flat VR | $12.99 | 128 47% | 3.8k | $50k (exactly $49,882) | No Brakes Games | |
 | Driving Is Hard | $6.99 | 200 79% | 6.0k | $42k (exactly $41,940) | Elegant Horse Studios | |
 | Galumb | $7.99 | 148 28% | 4.4k | $35k (exactly $35,476) | OB | |
 | An Eggstremely Hard Game | $4.99 | 196 84% | 5.9k | $29k (exactly $29,341) | BBear Studio | |
 | Unicycle Together | $4.99 | 194 89% | 5.8k | $29k (exactly $29,042) | Eneskp, Yusuf Demirhan |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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