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Should I ship a Score Attack Survival Horror?
Survival Horror + Score Attack
Only 17 developers shipped a Score Attack Survival Horror 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, White Knuckle, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×2.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×1.1 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $450; 1 in 20 cleared $6.8M, ×10840 the market median. Revenue is up 80% on the market; 17 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $718 (exactly $718) |
| Top 25% | $2.9k (exactly $2,876) |
| Top 5% | $6.8M (exactly $6,807,553) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 56 |
| Announced | 17 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.49 |
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 up 80% on the market, supply 10% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Survival Horror
- 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
- Survival Horror, Score Attack; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Survival, Adventure
- Price point
- $5.49 typical · top 25% priced $16.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Atmospheric, First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $16.99 or above; the middle game at $5.49.
The top 10 games average 97% positive over 14,383 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 8 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Survival Horror with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVFair
- + DrivingFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + SnowFair
- + SportsFair
- + Outbreak SimFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + Boomer ShooterFair
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Spectacle fighterPoor odds
Comparable games
White Knuckle 2025 · EA · $6.8M 
Death in the Water 2 2023 · $780k 
Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny 2025 · $597k 
VAR: Exterminate 2021 · EA · $58k 
Jeffrey Eggstein 2026 · EA · $43k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | White Knuckle | · EA | $16.99 | 13,356 98% | 401k | $6.8M (exactly $6,807,553) | Dark Machine Games |
| | Death in the Water 2 | older | $14.99 | 1,734 83% | 52k | $780k (exactly $779,780) | Lighthouse Games Studio |
| | Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny | $29.99 | 663 85% | 20k | $597k (exactly $596,501) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. | |
| | VAR: Exterminate | · EA older | $14.99 | 129 89% | 3.9k | $58k (exactly $58,011) | VAR LIVE International Ltd |
| | Jeffrey Eggstein | · EA | $4.99 | 290 94% | 8.7k | $43k (exactly $43,413) | Grabba Guild Games LLC |
 | Nix Umbra | older | $9.99 | 76 84% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $22,777) | ilzard |
 | Die for the Economy! | $7.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $5.0k (exactly $5,034) | Tea Monster Games | |
 | A Priest Walks Into a Graveyard | older | $4.99 | 24 87% | 720 | $3.6k (exactly $3,593) | LGV |
 | Casino Casualty | $7.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $2.9k (exactly $2,876) | GlitchedLizard | |
 | Space Trench | $4.99 | 17 88% | 510 | $2.5k (exactly $2,545) | Del "DeeDave" Huband | |
 | 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 | |
 | Zombiemachia | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Kornux Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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