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Should I ship a Robot Puzzle Platformer?
Puzzle Platformer + Robots
Of 53 developers who shipped a Robot Puzzle Platformer 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.. 106 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 30 developers shipped in the last year and 106 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $7.6k (exactly $7,552) |
| Top 5% | $129k (exactly $128,871) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 53 |
| Released games | 215 |
| Announced | 106 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 up 35% on the market, supply 30% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Puzzle Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Robots
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Puzzle Platformer; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Platformer, Action
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, Linear, Pixel Graphics
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 3,219 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 9 in 10 of the 31 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 106 games are announced against 30 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Puzzle Platformer with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + RomanceFair
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + Life SimFair
- + SimulationFair
- + Grid-Based MovementFair
- + SokobanFair
- + LovecraftianPoor odds
- + Co-op CampaignPoor odds
- + MetroidvaniaPoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + Split ScreenPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
Comparable games
Haydee 2016 · $2.8M 
Deliver Us Mars 2023 · $2.0M 
ElecHead 2021 · $423k 
Mind Over Magnet 2024 · $403k 
Hypogea 2025 · $245k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Haydee | older | $14.99 | 6,226 84% | 187k | $2.8M (exactly $2,799,832) | Haydee Interactive |
| | Deliver Us Mars | older | $29.99 | 2,271 74% | 68k | $2.0M (exactly $2,043,219) | KeokeN Interactive |
| | ElecHead | older | $9.99 | 1,412 96% | 42k | $423k (exactly $423,176) | NamaTakahashi, Tsuyomi |
| | Mind Over Magnet | $9.99 | 1,344 89% | 40k | $403k (exactly $402,797) | Game Maker's Toolkit | |
| | Hypogea | $9.99 | 817 97% | 25k | $245k (exactly $244,855) | Charlie Wagner | |
 | Copy Kitty | older | $14.99 | 345 97% | 10k | $155k (exactly $155,146) | Nuclear Strawberry |
 | MotionRec | $9.99 | 430 99% | 13k | $129k (exactly $128,871) | HANDSUM | |
 | NODE | $24.99 | 146 91% | 4.4k | $109k (exactly $109,456) | Lapsus Games | |
 | Retro Machina | older | $16.99 | 197 86% | 5.9k | $100k (exactly $100,411) | Orbit Studio |
 | Unmechanical | older | $9.99 | 310 92% | 9.3k | $93k (exactly $92,907) | Talawa Games |
 | Brave Escape | $19.99 | 145 97% | 4.4k | $87k (exactly $86,956) | Hit Start Studios | |
 | Unusual and not safe experiments | $29.99 | 86 89% | 2.6k | $77k (exactly $77,374) | Galactic Geckon | |
 | Lost in Tandem | $14.99 | 39 84% | 1.2k | $18k (exactly $17,538) | Tempete Studio | |
 | Junkster | $9.99 | 56 98% | 1.7k | $17k (exactly $16,783) | Stormcloud Games Limited | |
 | SECTOR ZERO | $3.99 | 138 93% | 4.1k | $17k (exactly $16,519) | Ondrej Angelovic | |
 | NBB.EXE | $19.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $11k (exactly $10,795) | Raptus Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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