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Should I ship a Sokoban Score Attack game?
Score Attack + Sokoban
Only 15 developers shipped a Sokoban Score Attack game 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, Pop Optics, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $0 in the last 2 years and $150 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 3 / 10 build. 12 developers shipped in the last year and 9 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $0 (exactly $0) |
| Top 25% | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 5% | $839 (exactly $839) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 9 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 300% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 6%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Score Attack
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Sokoban
- effort 2 / 10 · high · grid pushing rules and level files
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Score Attack, Sokoban
- Price point
- $3.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 100% positive over 26 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
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Comparable games
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Puzzledorf 2021 · $4.5k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Hexologic | older | $4.99 | 684 96% | 21k | $102k (exactly $102,395) | MythicOwl |
| | Last Stand Delivery | older | $6.99 | 65 100% | 2.0k | $14k (exactly $13,630) | CalypsoMini |
| | Threes! | older | $5.99 | 56 96% | 1.7k | $10k (exactly $10,063) | Asher Vollmer, Greg Wohlwend, BigGiantC… (Asher Vollmer, Greg Wohlwend, BigGiantCircles) |
| | Kubikon 3D | older | $9.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $4.8k (exactly $4,795) | KUBI Games |
| | Puzzledorf | older | $9.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | SPG (Stuart's Pixel Games) |
 | Mushroom Hunter | older | $4.99 | 22 90% | 660 | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) | Ancient Civilizations Enigmas |
 | CubeCubeRubik | older | $3.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $1.2k (exactly $1,197) | iceblue Studio |
 | LoBlocks | older | $2.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) | Colossus Game Studio |
 | Pop Optics | $6.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $839 (exactly $839) | Nanotron Studio | |
 | Pingo's Revenge | older | $1.99 | 14 85% | 420 | $836 (exactly $836) | rogerinfanger.com |
 | Fluffy Arena | $1.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $776 (exactly $776) | Pet Party | |
 | Merge Coin: Mai | $1.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $298 (exactly $298) | GhostTempura | |
 | SantaCorps: Snow Patrol | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Virtuoso Neomedia | |
 | ToneTrek | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Dark Waters Games | |
 | Moon Garden Optimizer | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Tristan Miller | |
 | Lawin Catch The Kim | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | StrawHat Studio | |
 | A Simple Square | $4.79 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Antharuu | |
 | King's Beat | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Mikko Savikko | |
 | Pipeworks Puzzle | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Bile Beans For Biliousness |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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