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Should I ship a Superhero Parkour game?
Parkour + Superhero
Only 5 developers shipped a Superhero 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, Hop Drop, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 8 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $120 against a market of $1.5k. 8 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $120 (exactly $120) |
| Top 25% | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 5% | $898 (exactly $898) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Parkour
- Price point
- $3.99 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 $49.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 187,961 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Parkour with a different setting or mood, 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
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered 2022 · $183M 
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales 2022 · $59M 
Prototype 2 2012 · $12M 
SpeedRunners 2016 · $10M 
Prototype™ 2009 · $7.5M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered | older | $59.99 | 101,879 96% | 3.1M | $183M (exactly $183,351,636) | Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software |
| | Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales | older | $49.99 | 39,234 93% | 1.2M | $59M (exactly $58,839,230) | Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software |
| | Prototype 2 | older | $39.99 | 10,389 75% | 312k | $12M (exactly $12,463,683) | Radical Entertainment |
| | SpeedRunners | older | $14.99 | 22,842 94% | 685k | $10M (exactly $10,272,047) | DoubleDutch Games |
| | Prototype™ | older | $19.99 | 12,518 80% | 376k | $7.5M (exactly $7,507,045) | Radical Entertainment |
 | Amazing Frog? 2 | · EA older | $19.99 | 726 77% | 22k | $435k (exactly $435,382) | Fayju |
 | Time To Stop Time | older | $9.99 | 161 71% | 4.8k | $48k (exactly $48,252) | Sicarius |
 | Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse | older | $4.99 | 153 55% | 4.6k | $23k (exactly $22,904) | Boogygames Studios |
 | SATORI | older | $7.99 | 43 76% | 1.3k | $10k (exactly $10,307) | EMOTION THEORY |
 | Deadbeat Heroes | older | $14.99 | 16 75% | 480 | $7.2k (exactly $7,195) | Upstream Arcade |
 | Hop Drop | $5.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $898 (exactly $898) | Goon Squad | |
 | Skyline Savior | $2.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $359 (exactly $359) | Beyond Horizon Games | |
 | RockOUT: Only up with Your Head | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Chronotope.App | |
 | Eletar Hero 2 | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | APGames | |
 | SOFIE SCOUT – Road to Poland | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | SOFIE SCOUT |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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