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Specimen · observed

Should I ship a Robot Score Attack game?

Score Attack + Robots

Of 62 developers who shipped a Robot Score Attack 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.. 85 more are announced, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.

Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.

The middle developer here made $450, ×0.7 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $65k, ×104 the market median. Revenue is down 70% on the market; 85 games are announced against 36 developers who shipped in the last year.

Deciding numbers: median 0.7 times the market baseline, revenue down 70% on the market, 85 announced, ×2.4 per developer who shipped in the last year.
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Score Attack + Robots
Fig. 1 · this niche among 16,100
Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr n = 62
Median est. gross by half-year cohort, 2023 H1 to 2026 H2: $4.3k → $2.7k → $3.0k → $2.4k → $959 → $449 → $90 (still earning) → $2.9k (still earning)
The last cohort is still earning.
Outcomes for Score Attack + Robots: Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr, n = 62
Bottom 30% $150 (exactly $150)
Median $449 (exactly $449)
Top 25% $4.6k (exactly $4,585)
Top 5% $65k (exactly $65,206)
Developers, 2 yr 62
Released games 182
Announced 85
Effort 5 / 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 70% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.

Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.

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Plate 2 · systems and tooling

Can AI deliver it?

AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.

Score Attack
effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
Robots
effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band

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Plate 3 · the cost side

What it takes

Effort
5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
Systems
Score Attack; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Shooter, Arcade
Price point
$4.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
Art
4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Retro, 3D, Pixel Graphics
Plate 4 · demand

Why players buy here

The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.

The top 10 games average 90% positive over 1,990 reviews.

Plate 5 · the loss side

What kills games here

Developer outcomes in the last 2 years by share: 3 in 10 under $150, median $450, 1 in 4 over $4.5k, 1 in 20 over $65k.

3 in 10 developers made under $150. 9 in 10 of the 32 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 85 games are announced against 36 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper.

Plate 6 · same mechanic, other settings

Adjacent niches

Score Attack with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.

  1. + MechsFair23 devs · median $6.2k · 24 announced
  2. + Spectacle fighterFair31 devs · median $4.3k · 29 announced
  3. + DragonsFair16 devs · median $2.1k · 11 announced
  4. + VampiresFair16 devs · median $1.7k · 14 announced
  5. + CookingFair28 devs · median $1.4k · 30 announced
  6. + SuperheroFair11 devs · median $1.3k · 5 announced
  7. + Female ProtagonistFair112 devs · median $1.2k · 104 announced
  8. + GolfFair11 devs · median $1.2k · 8 announced
  9. + GothicFair20 devs · median $959 · 14 announced
  10. + ModernFair53 devs · median $899 · 43 announced
  11. + Choose Your Own AdventureFair14 devs · median $898 · 11 announced
  12. + UndergroundFair23 devs · median $748 · 18 announced

All 200 pairs on the Score Attack page

Plate 7 · comparable specimens, by est. revenue

Comparable games

ULTRAKILL 2020 · EA · $192M MULLET MADJACK 2024 · $4.9M Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense 2024 · $423k BZZZT 2023 · $342k Neon Inferno 2025 · $227k
Capsule Game Released Price Reviews Est. copies Est. revenue Developer
ULTRAKILL · EA older $29.99 213,450 97% 6.4M $192M (exactly $192,040,965) Arsi "Hakita" Patala
MULLET MADJACK older $19.99 8,235 97% 247k $4.9M (exactly $4,938,530) HAMMER95
Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense $19.99 706 85% 21k $423k (exactly $423,388) Element Studios
BZZZT older $11.99 952 93% 29k $342k (exactly $342,434) KO.DLL
Neon Inferno $19.99 378 92% 11k $227k (exactly $226,687) Zenovia Interactive
Drunken Robot Pornography older $14.99 489 83% 15k $220k (exactly $219,903) Dejobaan Games, LLC
RIVE older $14.99 468 83% 14k $210k (exactly $210,460) Two Tribes
MotionRec $9.99 430 99% 13k $129k (exactly $128,871) HANDSUM
Defunct older $4.99 599 80% 18k $90k (exactly $89,670) Freshly Squeezed
REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR older $9.99 294 93% 8.8k $88k (exactly $88,112) Cross Eaglet
閃攻機人アスラ - ASURA THE STRIKER - $14.99 145 91% 4.4k $65k (exactly $65,206) LeftOver
CODE Bunny $9.99 143 93% 4.3k $43k (exactly $42,857) Team Seventh Star
I, Robot $14.99 38 92% 1.1k $17k (exactly $17,089) Llamasoft Ltd.
Jenny the Witch $7.99 69 88% 2.1k $17k (exactly $16,539) Catbird Soft
FZ: Formation Z $29.99 16 87% 480 $14k (exactly $14,395) Granzella Inc.
Steel Knight's ARMIS $9.99 40 57% 1.2k $12k (exactly $11,988) Izanami Game Lab, Inc., FORCES
AI.VI $13.99 25 100% 750 $10k (exactly $10,492) Out of Time

Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.