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Should I ship a Platformer Party Game?
Party Game + Platformer
Of 107 developers who shipped a Platformer Party 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.. 166 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450, ×0.9 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $60; 1 in 20 cleared $27k, ×58 the market median. Revenue is down 75% on the market; 166 games are announced against 89 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $2.5k (exactly $2,545) |
| Top 5% | $27k (exactly $27,326) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 107 |
| Released games | 192 |
| Announced | 166 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 down 75% on the market, supply 395% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Party Game
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Party Game, Platformer; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Online Co-Op, Physics
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $7.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Funny, Colorful, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $7.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 71% positive over 1,475 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. 9 in 10 of the 19 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 166 games are announced against 89 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Party Game with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Board GameFair
- + RhythmFair
- + DeckbuildingFair
- + Card BattlerFair
- + MinigamesPoor odds
- + RoguelitePoor odds
- + RoguelikePoor odds
- + Vehicular CombatPoor odds
- + DestructionPoor odds
- + DrivingPoor odds
- + SurvivalPoor odds
- + HorrorPoor odds
Comparable games
Ultimate Chicken Horse 2016 · $18M 
Move or Die 2016 · $7.4M 
ROUNDS 2021 · $6.4M 
Super Bunny Man 2023 · $4.6M 
PICO PARK 2021 · $3.6M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ultimate Chicken Horse | older | $14.99 | 41,060 95% | 1.2M | $18M (exactly $18,464,682) | Clever Endeavour Games |
| | Move or Die | older | $14.99 | 16,479 89% | 494k | $7.4M (exactly $7,410,606) | Xelu, Those Awesome Guys |
| | ROUNDS | older | $5.99 | 35,738 95% | 1.1M | $6.4M (exactly $6,422,119) | Landfall |
| | Super Bunny Man | older | $14.99 | 10,143 85% | 304k | $4.6M (exactly $4,561,307) | Catobyte |
| | PICO PARK | older | $4.99 | 23,751 91% | 713k | $3.6M (exactly $3,555,525) | TECOPARK |
 | Nidhogg | older | $9.99 | 5,717 90% | 172k | $1.7M (exactly $1,713,385) | Messhof |
 | TowerFall Ascension | older | $14.99 | 2,942 95% | 88k | $1.3M (exactly $1,323,017) | Maddy Makes Games Inc., Extremely OK Ga… (Maddy Makes Games Inc., Extremely OK Games, Ltd.) |
 | Climber Animals: Together | older | $3.99 | 6,014 73% | 180k | $720k (exactly $719,876) | Devotion Interactive |
 | Heave Ho | older | $9.99 | 2,019 91% | 61k | $605k (exactly $605,094) | Le Cartel Studio |
 | Fling to the Finish | older | $19.99 | 849 85% | 25k | $509k (exactly $509,145) | SplitSide Games |
 | Ultimate Sheep Raccoon | $19.99 | 205 45% | 6.2k | $123k (exactly $122,938) | Clever Endeavour Games | |
 | Head's Adventures:chibichibi | $7.99 | 334 97% | 10k | $80k (exactly $80,060) | ManaWanderer | |
 | Jumping Jazz Cats | $8.99 | 148 74% | 4.4k | $40k (exactly $39,916) | Le Catnip Collective | |
 | Unicycle Together | $4.99 | 194 89% | 5.8k | $29k (exactly $29,042) | Eneskp, Yusuf Demirhan | |
 | Hold Your King | $5.99 | 154 83% | 4.6k | $28k (exactly $27,674) | Next Big Game Studio | |
 | Shady job | $7.99 | 114 70% | 3.4k | $27k (exactly $27,326) | GAZE IN GAMES | |
 | 捣蛋蛙（Croak Squad） | $3.99 | 172 27% | 5.2k | $21k (exactly $20,588) | BonkersLab | |
 | Lunars | · EA | $14.99 | 40 97% | 1.2k | $18k (exactly $17,988) | Anubis Arts |
 | Break The Chain | · EA | $4.99 | 63 39% | 1.9k | $9.4k (exactly $9,431) | Devlo Games |
 | WHAT THE PAK?! | · EA | $5.99 | 51 72% | 1.5k | $9.2k (exactly $9,165) | Wendigo Games, Broken Lyre Entertainment |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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