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Should I ship a Vampire Score Attack game?
Score Attack + Vampires
Only 16 developers shipped a Vampire 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, Internet Survivor Survivors, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.7k, ×2.7 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $150. Revenue is up 60% on the market; 14 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.7k (exactly $1,676) |
| Top 25% | $4.8k (exactly $4,790) |
| Top 5% | $105k (exactly $105,230) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 14 |
| 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 up 60% on the market, supply 200% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 6%, excluded from money figures.
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
- Vampires
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Score Attack; all of the top 25% also carry Action, Action Roguelike, Arcade
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 8 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Pixel Graphics, Top-Down
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 660 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 14 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Vampire Survivors 2022 · $38M 
Boneraiser Minions 2023 · $744k 
Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity 2018 · $548k 
Goobies 2023 · $335k 
Internet Survivor Survivors 2026 · $105k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Vampire Survivors | older | $4.99 | 251,686 98% | 7.6M | $38M (exactly $37,677,394) | poncle |
| | Boneraiser Minions | older | $4.99 | 4,967 96% | 149k | $744k (exactly $743,560) | caiys |
| | Touhou: Scarlet Curiosity | older | $14.99 | 1,219 91% | 37k | $548k (exactly $548,184) | Ankake Spa |
| | Goobies | older | $5.99 | 1,866 90% | 56k | $335k (exactly $335,320) | Höganäs Spel |
| | Internet Survivor Survivors | $14.99 | 234 75% | 7.0k | $105k (exactly $105,230) | ビートまりお / COOL&CREATE | |
 | BloodRayne Betrayal: Fresh Bites | older | $19.99 | 129 60% | 3.9k | $77k (exactly $77,361) | WayForward |
 | Hentai Survivors | older | $6.99 | 236 46% | 7.1k | $49k (exactly $49,489) | Octo Games |
 | Diluvian Ultra | older | $9.99 | 152 71% | 4.6k | $46k (exactly $45,554) | Cresthelm Studios |
 | Relic Dudes | $4.99 | 264 87% | 7.9k | $40k (exactly $39,521) | Achenar Studios, danilomacb | |
 | ECHOLOCAUTION | older | $4.99 | 88 100% | 2.6k | $13k (exactly $13,174) | ハコニワハコビヤ |
 | Frogmageddon | $4.99 | 45 91% | 1.4k | $6.7k (exactly $6,736) | Frog Mage Udon, Sunset Dreamland | |
 | Bloodmoon Survivors | $4.99 | 32 100% | 960 | $4.8k (exactly $4,790) | Nicholas Evelson | |
 | Castleborne Survivors | · EA | $3.99 | 30 70% | 900 | $3.6k (exactly $3,591) | GameVerse |
 | Flora & Fang: Guardians of the vampire garden | $8.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.9k (exactly $1,888) | Magnus Fredriksson | |
 | Blood Gauntlet | $2.99 | 20 75% | 600 | $1.8k (exactly $1,794) | Eric LaCroix | |
 | Dracs After Dusk | $3.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $1.7k (exactly $1,676) | OliveHillStudios | |
 | Incremental Vampire | $2.99 | 11 63% | 330 | $987 (exactly $987) | LobotoMax | |
 | Labyrinth : Dracula's lair | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | MyceliumGames |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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