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Should I ship a Precision Platformer Survival game?
Survival + Precision Platformer
Of 35 developers who shipped a Precision Platformer Survival game 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.. 28 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $270 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 24 developers shipped in the last year and 28 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $356 (exactly $356) |
| Top 25% | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) |
| Top 5% | $12k (exactly $11,696) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 35 |
| Released games | 120 |
| Announced | 28 |
| 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 down 30% on the market, supply 120% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Survival
- 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
- Survival, Precision Platformer; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Adventure, Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $10.99 or above
- Art
- 3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Stylized, Linear
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $10.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 542 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. 9 in 10 of the 15 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 28 games are announced against 24 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Survival with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Disc Room 2020 · $430k 
Space Accident VR 2025 · $118k 
Backrooms Cats and Lava 2024 · $94k 
Digital Meow 2024 · $91k 
Dofamine VR 2025 · $52k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Disc Room | older | $14.99 | 957 92% | 29k | $430k (exactly $430,363) | Terri, Dose, Kitty, JW |
| | Space Accident VR | $16.99 | 231 82% | 6.9k | $118k (exactly $117,741) | VR-WRG | |
| | Backrooms Cats and Lava | older | $29.99 | 105 79% | 3.2k | $94k (exactly $94,468) | Galactic Geckon |
| | Digital Meow | older | $29.99 | 101 83% | 3.0k | $91k (exactly $90,870) | Galactic Geckon |
| | Dofamine VR | $9.99 | 173 82% | 5.2k | $52k (exactly $51,848) | VR-WRG | |
 | Icycle: On Thin Ice | older | $6.99 | 107 96% | 3.2k | $22k (exactly $22,438) | Damp Gnat |
 | The Narrator Is a DICK | older | $4.99 | 107 76% | 3.2k | $16k (exactly $16,018) | Adam DeLease |
 | Flying Tobacco Eggs | older | $39.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $16k (exactly $15,596) | Gamesforgames |
 | Squirreltopia | older | $4.99 | 88 69% | 2.6k | $13k (exactly $13,174) | SD |
 | E.Z | older | $1.99 | 213 92% | 6.4k | $13k (exactly $12,716) | Totally Normal Creature |
 | Skullbreaker | $29.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $12k (exactly $11,696) | Sharkgame | |
 | Good Luck | $4.99 | 42 69% | 1.3k | $6.3k (exactly $6,287) | Happybara Games | |
 | I HATE MY LEGS | $10.99 | 17 100% | 510 | $5.6k (exactly $5,605) | Subhumans Studio | |
 | Prison Escape Simulator | $9.99 | 18 77% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | PEGAX Studios | |
 | Perfect Liar | $3.99 | 20 100% | 600 | $2.4k (exactly $2,394) | eightworks allware | |
 | Null Transit | $5.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | Halfway Games | |
 | UwU Hunter | $3.69 | 12 91% | 360 | $1.3k (exactly $1,328) | ZuggtGames | |
 | Only Up 3 | $4.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | WGI GAMING |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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