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Should I ship a Quick-Time Events Parkour game?
Parkour + Quick-Time Events
Of 25 developers who shipped a Quick-Time Events 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.. 19 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $270 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 12 developers shipped in the last year and 19 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $269 (exactly $269) |
| Top 25% | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 5% | $1.6k (exactly $1,648) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 25 |
| Released games | 60 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $2.99 |
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 140% on the market, supply 10% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, 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
- Quick-Time Events
- 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
- Parkour, Quick-Time Events; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Action-Adventure, Precision Platformer
- Price point
- $2.99 typical · top 25% priced $8.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Funny, Third Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $8.99 or above; the middle game at $2.99.
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 63 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. All of the 16 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Parkour with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + Combat RacingFair
- + Precision PlatformerLong shot
- + MetroidvaniaPoor odds
- + SkateboardingPoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + CatsPoor odds
- + DestructionPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
Comparable games
Call of Duty®: Black Ops III 2015 · $284M 
Assassin’s Creed® Rogue 2015 · $13M 
Aerial_Knight's Never Yield 2021 · $15k 
Bad Way 2022 · $9.3k 
BandRoll 2023 · EA · $5.9k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Call of Duty®: Black Ops III | older | $59.99 | 157,694 88% | 4.7M | $284M (exactly $283,801,892) | Treyarch, Aspyr (Mac) |
| | Assassin’s Creed® Rogue | older | $19.99 | 21,310 86% | 639k | $13M (exactly $12,779,607) | Ubisoft Sofia, Ubisoft Kiev |
| | Aerial_Knight's Never Yield | older | $4.99 | 102 79% | 3.1k | $15k (exactly $15,269) | Aerial_Knight |
| | Bad Way | older | $4.99 | 62 72% | 1.9k | $9.3k (exactly $9,281) | Montee Games |
| | BandRoll | · EA older | $1.99 | 98 85% | 2.9k | $5.9k (exactly $5,851) | Bluespy Studios |
 | Aerial_Knight's We Never Yield | older | $14.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $4.9k (exactly $4,947) | Aerial_Knight, BetaJester |
 | Dynamic Shooting VR | older | $9.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | Polyfun Games |
 | Time Warp Infinite | older | $9.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Zoglu |
 | The Way of Cooking | older | $7.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $2.9k (exactly $2,876) | 大连酷码星数字科技有限公司 |
 | BSurfing | · EA older | $5.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $2.3k (exactly $2,336) | RiadDev |
 | Super Miaoyin | $8.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $1.9k (exactly $1,888) | Hou Xiaohou | |
 | UNPLUG - The Game | · EA | $10.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.6k (exactly $1,648) | GoldLime Studios |
 | Who move my key? | $4.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | 与众第九艺术 | |
 | The King of Wall Street | $4.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Yogo Studio | |
 | Rush Roulette | · EA | $6.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Terralithic |
 | RollBot | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Tsukoni | |
 | The Pirate's Casino | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Nihat temel, Özgür Arslan | |
 | Fumpers: Dual Realms | $1.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $597 (exactly $597) | Fırat Kurt, KurtSoft | |
 | 浪尖舞动 Surf Dance | $1.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $418 (exactly $418) | Youliang Wuhan Network Technology Co.,… (Youliang Wuhan Network Technology Co., Ltd.) | |
 | TaterUp | $2.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $359 (exactly $359) | Ash and Pause |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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