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Parkour + Shoot 'Em Up
Only 7 developers shipped a Shoot 'Em Up Parkour game 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, CYBERSLAYER: No Time to Regret, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced, ×4.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $510 against a market of $630. 14 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $450 (exactly $450) |
|---|---|
| Median | $505 (exactly $505) |
| Top 25% | $2.2k (exactly $2,160) |
| Top 5% | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.00 |
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 645% on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, 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
- Shoot 'Em Up
- 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, Shoot 'Em Up
- Price point
- $4.00 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 71% positive over 7,367 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 14 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.7 per shipper.
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
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LONN 2022 · $181k 
Diatomic 2024 · $40k 
KUR 2022 · $28k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Hunt Down The Freeman | older | $9.99 | 3,785 54% | 114k | $1.1M (exactly $1,134,364) | Royal Rudius Entertainment |
| | Soda Crisis | older | $10.99 | 2,915 93% | 87k | $961k (exactly $961,076) | Team Soda |
| | LONN | older | $29.99 | 201 64% | 6.0k | $181k (exactly $180,840) | SixSense Studios |
| | Diatomic | older | $9.99 | 135 76% | 4.1k | $40k (exactly $40,460) | Diatomic Studios |
| | KUR | older | $19.99 | 46 60% | 1.4k | $28k (exactly $27,586) | Really Ragdoll |
 | KILLRUN | older | $4.99 | 153 67% | 4.6k | $23k (exactly $22,904) | BULKHEAD |
 | Verlet Ascend | older | $6.99 | 75 88% | 2.3k | $16k (exactly $15,728) | Sagewind Studio |
 | Dynamic Shooting VR | older | $9.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | Polyfun Games |
 | Voidside | older | $7.99 | 16 87% | 480 | $3.8k (exactly $3,835) | Spacepiano Games |
 | CYBERSLAYER: No Time to Regret | $4.99 | 25 92% | 750 | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) | KAEV Games | |
 | GUN.DOG.REVENGE | $4.00 | 18 100% | 540 | $2.2k (exactly $2,160) | MEWSTURBO | |
 | Mechanical Fury - Prologue | $4.99 | 14 78% | 420 | $2.1k (exactly $2,096) | Avian Hearts | |
 | Kill Dee | $0.99 | 17 82% | 510 | $505 (exactly $505) | BYE BYE, BUYBYEGames | |
 | Rockoon | $3.00 | 5 100% | 150 | $450 (exactly $450) | Rockoon Team | |
 | StreetSync | $0.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $297 (exactly $297) | Tyler L | |
 | Along the Edge of the Sky | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Dark Star Nova |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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