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Should I ship a Steampunk Puzzle Platformer?
Puzzle Platformer + Steampunk
Only 6 developers shipped a Steampunk 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, Power Sink, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 26 more are announced, ×13 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $450 against a market of $630. 26 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $180 (exactly $180) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) |
| Top 5% | $12k (exactly $11,692) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 52 |
| Announced | 26 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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 50% fewer 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
- Steampunk
- 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
- Price point
- $14.99 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 $9.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 36,460 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 26 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×13 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
FAR: Lone Sails 2018 · $11M 
DARQ: Complete Edition 2019 · $2.1M 
Contrast 2013 · $1.4M 
Teslagrad 2013 · $512k 
Slice of Sea 2021 · $392k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | FAR: Lone Sails | older | $14.99 | 24,474 95% | 734k | $11M (exactly $11,005,958) | Okomotive |
| | DARQ: Complete Edition | older | $19.99 | 3,575 94% | 107k | $2.1M (exactly $2,143,928) | Unfold Games |
| | Contrast | older | $9.99 | 4,548 90% | 136k | $1.4M (exactly $1,363,036) | Compulsion Games |
| | Teslagrad | older | $9.99 | 1,709 83% | 51k | $512k (exactly $512,187) | Rain Games |
| | Slice of Sea | older | $24.99 | 523 90% | 16k | $392k (exactly $392,093) | Mateusz Skutnik |
 | Teslagrad 2 | older | $19.99 | 419 76% | 13k | $251k (exactly $251,274) | Rain Games |
 | Leo’s Fortune - HD Edition | older | $6.99 | 430 92% | 13k | $90k (exactly $90,171) | 1337 & Senri AB |
 | Another Sight - Definitive Edition | older | $19.99 | 144 76% | 4.3k | $86k (exactly $86,357) | Lunar Great Wall Studios |
 | Vessel | older | $4.99 | 428 89% | 13k | $64k (exactly $64,072) | Strange Loop Games |
 | Teslagrad Remastered | older | $9.99 | 210 81% | 6.3k | $63k (exactly $62,937) | Rain Games |
 | Power Sink | $14.99 | 26 96% | 780 | $12k (exactly $11,692) | Winterwire Games | |
 | The Wilds of Dacrima: Field Notes from a Poorly Supervised Alchemist and his Unruly Clockwork Companion | $19.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) | Antler Studios | |
 | Hopward | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | GoodGhostGames | |
 | About a Boy | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Return 0 Game Studio | |
 | Homam: An Inventor's Fist | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Jerfas Studio | |
 | Escape from Chancellor's Chambers | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Diogras Entertainment |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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