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Should I ship a Precision Platformer Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + Precision Platformer
Only 7 developers shipped a Precision Platformer Spectacle fighter 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, Decline's Drops, 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 $2.3k against a market of $1.5k. 8 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.6k (exactly $1,556) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.3k (exactly $2,336) |
| Top 25% | $65k (exactly $65,304) |
| Top 5% | $76k (exactly $76,449) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 60% 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.
- Spectacle fighter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Precision 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, Precision Platformer
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $4.99.
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 570 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.6k. 7 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 8 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 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
Decline's Drops 2024 · $76k 
Outrider Mako 2025 · $65k 
Stop Dead 2023 · EA · $36k 
Street Power Football 2020 · $30k 
Chronicles of 2 Heroes: Amaterasu's Wrath 2023 · $21k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Decline's Drops | $14.99 | 170 96% | 5.1k | $76k (exactly $76,449) | Le Moulin aux Bulles | |
| | Outrider Mako | $17.99 | 121 65% | 3.6k | $65k (exactly $65,304) | Asamado Games | |
| | Stop Dead | · EA older | $14.99 | 79 94% | 2.4k | $36k (exactly $35,526) | Gridsnap Games LLC |
| | Street Power Football | older | $29.99 | 33 51% | 990 | $30k (exactly $29,690) | SFL Interactive, Gamajun |
| | Chronicles of 2 Heroes: Amaterasu's Wrath | older | $19.99 | 35 62% | 1.1k | $21k (exactly $20,990) | Infinity Experience |
 | Agent Murphy | older | $4.99 | 47 72% | 1.4k | $7.0k (exactly $7,036) | xproject |
 | Darkanoid | older | $2.99 | 52 92% | 1.6k | $4.7k (exactly $4,664) | Shezo Games |
 | Flippin Kaktus | older | $11.99 | 10 50% | 300 | $3.6k (exactly $3,597) | rage++ |
 | Hammer of Pain | $10.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | SleepingFrog | |
 | Nice To Yeet You | · EA | $5.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $2.3k (exactly $2,336) | Empty Bottle |
 | KBF: Knight Bar Fight | $3.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.6k (exactly $1,556) | KBF Team | |
 | Arya's Blade | · EA | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | WorldMatrixGames |
 | ARO dangerous campaign | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Alexander Sevastianov |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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