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Should I ship a Precision Platformer Stealth game?
Stealth + Precision Platformer
Only 11 developers shipped a Precision Platformer Stealth 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, Azooma Escape, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $180 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 14 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $180 (exactly $180) |
| Top 25% | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 5% | $35k (exactly $34,627) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 46 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 up 10% on the market, supply 20% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Stealth
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Precision 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
- Stealth, Precision Platformer
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 91% positive over 96 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 14 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Tchia 2024 · $514k 
Master Spy 2015 · $83k 
Brush Burial 2023 · $58k 
Azooma Escape 2025 · $35k 
Vox Populi Vox Dei 2 2015 · $22k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Tchia | older | $29.99 | 571 89% | 17k | $514k (exactly $513,729) | Awaceb |
| | Master Spy | older | $9.99 | 278 77% | 8.3k | $83k (exactly $83,317) | TURBOGUN |
| | Brush Burial | older | $6.99 | 276 87% | 8.3k | $58k (exactly $57,877) | Knife Demon Software |
| | Azooma Escape | $14.99 | 77 89% | 2.3k | $35k (exactly $34,627) | Ash Games Studio | |
| | Vox Populi Vox Dei 2 | older | $2.99 | 246 82% | 7.4k | $22k (exactly $22,066) | Great Cogs |
 | Super Clown: Lost Diamonds | older | $4.99 | 56 82% | 1.7k | $8.4k (exactly $8,383) | Tero Lunkka, Valkeala Software, Blackth… (Tero Lunkka, Valkeala Software, Blackthug, NTStudios) |
 | FLATLAND Vol.1 | older | $4.99 | 41 90% | 1.2k | $6.1k (exactly $6,138) | kyuu Fujisaki, Minimol Games |
 | Pale Night | older | $11.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Pretty French Games |
 | Be a Pirate | older | $9.99 | 18 77% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | Amfich |
 | Flatland Vol.2 | older | $4.99 | 32 100% | 960 | $4.8k (exactly $4,790) | kyuu Fujisaki |
 | Filtration | $19.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $4.2k (exactly $4,198) | Whirligig Studios | |
 | Escape 2049 | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | OrionSoft | |
 | Only for Gamers | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Merhaba Yazılım | |
 | Fragile Packages: Handle with Care | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Jon Warner Studios | |
 | Homeshift | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Harjutales | |
 | NEKRO3 | · EA | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | CHVDR |
 | Sqube Escape | $1.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | RH POSITIVE | |
 | Detective Pig | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Young Man | |
 | Clim Snail | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | nuk |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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