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Should I ship a Shoot 'Em Up Puzzle Platformer?
Puzzle Platformer + Shoot 'Em Up
Only 5 developers shipped a Shoot 'Em Up Puzzle Platformer 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, Blue Flow, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×7.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $0 against a market of $480. 15 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $0 (exactly $0) |
| Top 25% | $179 (exactly $179) |
| Top 5% | $538 (exactly $538) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 47 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $2.99 |
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 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Puzzle Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Shoot 'Em Up
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Puzzle Platformer, Shoot 'Em Up
- Price point
- $2.99 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 $9.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 7,448 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 15 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×7.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Puzzle Platformer with a different second tag, 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
Out There Somewhere 2016 · $1.8M 
Super Time Force Ultra 2014 · $304k 
Monster Bash HD 2021 · $27k 
Squirbs 2016 · $11k 
Explosionade DX 2015 · $8.4k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Out There Somewhere | older | $9.99 | 6,160 92% | 185k | $1.8M (exactly $1,846,152) | MiniBoss |
| | Super Time Force Ultra | older | $14.99 | 677 90% | 20k | $304k (exactly $304,447) | Capybara Games |
| | Monster Bash HD | older | $9.99 | 91 95% | 2.7k | $27k (exactly $27,273) | Emberheart Games |
| | Squirbs | older | $0.99 | 366 65% | 11k | $11k (exactly $10,870) | Team Indev |
| | Explosionade DX | older | $5.99 | 47 87% | 1.4k | $8.4k (exactly $8,446) | Mommy's Best Games |
 | Super Mega Zero | older | $9.99 | 24 100% | 720 | $7.2k (exactly $7,193) | Silkworm |
 | Guns N' Runs | older | $6.99 | 31 90% | 930 | $6.5k (exactly $6,501) | Statera Studio |
 | Knife To Meet You | older | $14.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $5.8k (exactly $5,846) | Mate Magyar |
 | Marabundle | older | $9.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | Astral Game Studio, Clops Game Studio,… (Astral Game Studio, Clops Game Studio, Ops Game Studio, Wired Dreams Studio) |
 | Run Ralph Run | older | $4.99 | 26 73% | 780 | $3.9k (exactly $3,892) | Dnovel |
 | Blue Flow | $2.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Zulfu Ulas Sahin | |
 | Laser Battle Cats - travel & destroy! | $1.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | HowDeerYou | |
 | Luke Jump | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Lazycat Games | |
 | Space IXI Frontier Wars | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Roberto Joaquin Garay Medrano | |
 | Corp.S.E.: Escape | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gulf Park Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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