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Should I ship a Platformer Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + Platformer
Of 34 developers who shipped a Platformer Spectacle fighter 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.. 46 more are announced, ×3.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.0k, ×2.0 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $960; 1 in 20 cleared $1.5M, ×1018 the market median. Revenue is up 15% on the market; 46 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $959 (exactly $959) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.0k (exactly $2,998) |
| Top 25% | $58k (exactly $57,698) |
| Top 5% | $1.5M (exactly $1,524,437) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 34 |
| Released games | 94 |
| Announced | 46 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 15% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 5%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Spectacle fighter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Spectacle fighter, Platformer; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, 2D Platformer, Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Cute, Pixel Graphics
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 13,067 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $960. 7 in 10 of the 21 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 46 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Spectacle fighter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Score AttackFair
- + HorrorFair
- + LootPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + MythologyPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + FightingPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
Comparable games
Hi-Fi RUSH 2023 · $25M 
DmC: Devil May Cry 2013 · $19M 
ICEY 2016 · $8.3M 
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight 2016 · $3.1M 
Stick It to the Stickman 2025 · EA · $2.8M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Hi-Fi RUSH | older | $29.99 | 27,454 97% | 824k | $25M (exactly $24,700,364) | Tango Gameworks |
| | DmC: Devil May Cry | older | $29.99 | 20,938 93% | 628k | $19M (exactly $18,837,919) | Ninja Theory |
| | ICEY | older | $10.99 | 25,142 89% | 754k | $8.3M (exactly $8,289,317) | FantaBlade Network |
| | Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight | older | $9.99 | 10,502 93% | 315k | $3.1M (exactly $3,147,449) | Bombservice |
| | Stick It to the Stickman | · EA | $11.99 | 7,918 96% | 238k | $2.8M (exactly $2,848,105) | Free Lives |
 | The Legend of Tianding | older | $19.99 | 3,272 94% | 98k | $2.0M (exactly $1,962,218) | Creative Games Computer Graphics Corpor… (Creative Games Computer Graphics Corporation, Neon Doctrine) |
 | MEGA MAN X DiVE Offline | older | $29.99 | 1,760 80% | 53k | $1.6M (exactly $1,583,472) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. |
 | Kotama and Academy Citadel | $19.99 | 2,542 80% | 76k | $1.5M (exactly $1,524,437) | Atomstring Games | |
 | Mighty Goose | older | $19.99 | 943 86% | 28k | $566k (exactly $565,517) | Blastmode, MP2 Games |
 | Shady Knight | $19.99 | 898 93% | 27k | $539k (exactly $538,531) | Alexey 'cptnsigh' | |
 | Divinum | $14.99 | 525 85% | 16k | $236k (exactly $236,092) | Sigil Games | |
 | Poetry of Blood: Eclipse | · EA | $14.99 | 406 91% | 12k | $183k (exactly $182,578) | ZeroGameStudio |
 | CONERU -DIMENSION GIRL- | $19.99 | 263 96% | 7.9k | $158k (exactly $157,721) | HIKE Inc., Eallin Japan Co.Ltd. | |
 | Decline's Drops | $14.99 | 170 96% | 5.1k | $76k (exactly $76,449) | Le Moulin aux Bulles | |
 | SoulQuest | $19.99 | 97 81% | 2.9k | $58k (exactly $58,171) | SoulBlade Studio LLC, TomasJPereyra | |
 | Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest | $10.99 | 175 89% | 5.3k | $58k (exactly $57,698) | Maddison Baek | |
 | DriveCrazy | $10.99 | 73 94% | 2.2k | $24k (exactly $24,068) | TubezGames |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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