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Should I ship a Platformer Survival Horror?
Survival Horror + Platformer
Of 47 developers who shipped a Platformer Survival Horror 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.. 72 more are announced, ×2.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.8k, ×2.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $900; 1 in 20 cleared $820k, ×1308 the market median. Revenue is flat on the market; 72 games are announced against 29 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $898 (exactly $898) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,797) |
| Top 25% | $8.6k (exactly $8,630) |
| Top 5% | $822k (exactly $821,602) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 47 |
| Released games | 132 |
| Announced | 72 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 flat on the market, supply 55% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Survival Horror
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Platformer
- 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
- Survival Horror, Platformer; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Action, Exploration
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $16.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, Dark, First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $16.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 94% positive over 318,022 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $900. 7 in 10 of the 23 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 72 games are announced against 29 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Survival Horror with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVFair
- + DrivingFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + SnowFair
- + SportsFair
- + Outbreak SimFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + Boomer ShooterFair
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Spectacle fighterPoor odds
Comparable games
PEAK 2025 · $72M 
Rain World 2017 · $35M 
Gorilla Tag 2023 · $32M 
Little Nightmares 2017 · $31M 
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy 2017 · $18M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | PEAK | $7.99 | 301,964 94% | 9.1M | $72M (exactly $72,380,771) | Team PEAK | |
| | Rain World | older | $24.99 | 46,871 94% | 1.4M | $35M (exactly $35,139,189) | Videocult |
| | Gorilla Tag | older | $19.99 | 52,637 93% | 1.6M | $32M (exactly $31,566,409) | Another Axiom Inc. |
| | Little Nightmares | older | $19.99 | 52,184 94% | 1.6M | $31M (exactly $31,294,745) | Tarsier Studios |
| | Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy | older | $7.99 | 75,118 82% | 2.3M | $18M (exactly $18,005,785) | Bennett Foddy |
 | White Knuckle | · EA | $16.99 | 13,356 98% | 401k | $6.8M (exactly $6,807,553) | Dark Machine Games |
 | A Difficult Game About Climbing | older | $9.99 | 5,399 87% | 162k | $1.6M (exactly $1,618,080) | Pontypants |
 | Twisted Tower | $14.99 | 1,827 93% | 55k | $822k (exactly $821,602) | Atmos Games | |
 | The Upturned | older | $9.99 | 2,482 99% | 74k | $744k (exactly $743,855) | Zeekerss |
 | Lakeview Cabin Collection | older | $9.99 | 1,599 94% | 48k | $479k (exactly $479,220) | Roope Tamminen |
 | Kong: Survivor Instinct | $24.99 | 338 71% | 10k | $253k (exactly $253,399) | 7Levels | |
 | Ayasa: Shadows of Silence | $24.99 | 110 74% | 3.3k | $82k (exactly $82,467) | Aya Games | |
 | Clamb | $5.99 | 155 65% | 4.7k | $28k (exactly $27,854) | OP Softworks | |
 | Submerge | · EA | $9.99 | 92 61% | 2.8k | $28k (exactly $27,572) | Neuron Activation |
 | Death Frame | $14.99 | 57 98% | 1.7k | $26k (exactly $25,633) | EpiXR Games UG | |
 | VonGarland Castle : Beyond Blood | $14.99 | 42 57% | 1.3k | $19k (exactly $18,887) | Ash Jackson | |
 | Don't Look Behind | $4.99 | 81 58% | 2.4k | $12k (exactly $12,126) | Simon Au Yeung |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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