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Should I ship a Score Attack Stealth game?
Stealth + Score Attack
Only 19 developers shipped a Score Attack Stealth 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, Haneda Girl, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 22 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $210 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 14 developers shipped in the last year and 22 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $208 (exactly $208) |
| Top 25% | $719 (exactly $719) |
| Top 5% | $33k (exactly $33,278) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 46 |
| Announced | 22 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 65% on the market, supply 135% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 2%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Stealth
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Score Attack
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Stealth, Score Attack; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Action, Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $7.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with First-Person, Dark, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $7.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 91% positive over 239 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 22 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Stealth with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + DinosaursPoor odds
- + Gun CustomizationPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + WarPoor odds
Comparable games
Hitman: Absolution™ 2012 · $30M 
Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory 2024 · $185k 
Secret Agent HD 2021 · $44k 
Chupa Chupa VR 2020 · $40k 
Haneda Girl 2025 · $33k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Hitman: Absolution™ | older | $19.99 | 49,637 93% | 1.5M | $30M (exactly $29,767,309) | Io-Interactive A/S |
| | Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory | older | $9.99 | 618 89% | 19k | $185k (exactly $185,215) | Rockodile |
| | Secret Agent HD | older | $7.99 | 183 98% | 5.5k | $44k (exactly $43,865) | Emberheart Games |
| | Chupa Chupa VR | older | $10.99 | 121 90% | 3.6k | $40k (exactly $39,894) | kan.kikuchi |
| | Haneda Girl | $14.99 | 74 94% | 2.2k | $33k (exactly $33,278) | Studio Koba | |
 | TimeShifters | older | $4.99 | 167 93% | 5.0k | $25k (exactly $25,000) | FossettGaming |
 | Code Brown: A Game About Pooping | older | $2.99 | 193 89% | 5.8k | $17k (exactly $17,312) | CreaTeam |
 | Refund Me If You Can | older | $3.99 | 113 78% | 3.4k | $14k (exactly $13,526) | Sungame Studio |
 | Shoyu Ramen Forever | $4.99 | 66 89% | 2.0k | $9.9k (exactly $9,880) | POCKET HORROR BOX | |
 | Ball Scratch Simulator | $3.99 | 61 86% | 1.8k | $7.3k (exactly $7,302) | 10ft Games | |
 | The Lost Gallery | $5.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $2.0k (exactly $1,977) | AlleyInn | |
 | Labyrinth : Dracula's lair | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | MyceliumGames | |
 | IROONI - Color Tag - | $3.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $718 (exactly $718) | North Fox Games | |
 | Sneaky All-Nighter | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | SAT-BOX | |
 | Box Game | $3.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | BowieK | |
 | Maskared | $1.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $239 (exactly $239) | Scintillant | |
 | ATTENZIONE PICKPOCKET! | $0.99 | 7 71% | 210 | $208 (exactly $208) | Serio Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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