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Should I ship a Superhero Physics game?
Physics + Superhero
Only 9 developers shipped a Superhero Physics 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, Spectacular Team: Assemble, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360, ×0.2 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 21 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper, while revenue is up 305% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $898 (exactly $898) |
| Top 5% | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 43 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 305% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, 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
- Physics
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 75% positive over 4,129 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Megaton Rainfall 2017 · $1.0M 
Amazing Frog? 2 2022 · EA · $435k 
Project Demigod 2024 · $238k 
Superfly 2022 · $234k 
Death Horizon: Reloaded 2023 · $46k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Megaton Rainfall | older | $15.99 | 2,155 71% | 65k | $1.0M (exactly $1,033,754) | Pentadimensional Games, SL |
| | Amazing Frog? 2 | · EA older | $19.99 | 726 77% | 22k | $435k (exactly $435,382) | Fayju |
| | Project Demigod | older | $19.99 | 397 69% | 12k | $238k (exactly $238,081) | Omnifarious Studios LLC |
| | Superfly | older | $14.99 | 520 90% | 16k | $234k (exactly $233,844) | Loco Motion Devs |
| | Death Horizon: Reloaded | older | $19.99 | 76 80% | 2.3k | $46k (exactly $45,577) | Horizon Lab LLP |
 | Airborn | older | $12.99 | 93 88% | 2.8k | $36k (exactly $36,242) | Still Not Sure |
 | Turbo Chicken Simulator | · EA older | $14.99 | 41 87% | 1.2k | $18k (exactly $18,438) | Balkanware |
 | Otokomizu～漢水～ | older | $19.99 | 29 89% | 870 | $17k (exactly $17,391) | BIG BOYS STUDIO |
 | Conquer Humanity | · EA older | $2.99 | 60 68% | 1.8k | $5.4k (exactly $5,382) | Adi Zhavo |
 | Evil Superhero VR - Superhero Simulator | older | $4.99 | 32 53% | 960 | $4.8k (exactly $4,790) | Anark Studios |
 | Spectacular Team: Assemble | $7.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $3.1k (exactly $3,116) | Sengi Games | |
 | Hop Drop | $5.99 | 5 60% | 150 | $898 (exactly $898) | Goon Squad | |
 | SuperEats | $4.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | PoisonGames | |
 | Outer Space Bar | $8.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | OZNA STUDIO | |
 | 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 | |
 | Slightly Overweight Superhero and the seven levels of death | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Nathan Laird | |
 | Slap Fighter | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Curious Games | |
 | AIZASIA | $19.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | LLC Onisino |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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