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Should I ship a Score Attack Walking Simulator?
Walking Simulator + Score Attack
Only 17 developers shipped a Score Attack Walking Simulator 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, Colony 37, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, ×1.3 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240; 1 in 20 cleared $20k, ×42 the market median. Revenue is down 65% on the market; 13 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) |
| Top 5% | $20k (exactly $20,093) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 41 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 down 65% on the market, supply 85% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Walking Simulator
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Score Attack
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Walking Simulator, Score Attack; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Procedural Generation
- Price point
- $3.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.80 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.80 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 94% positive over 481 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Walking Simulator with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk 2023 · $15M 
Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory 2024 · $185k 
Colony 37 2025 · EA · $20k 
hate.net 2025 · $18k 
ATTA -Spot the Oddities in the Strange Hotel- 2024 · EA · $15k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Bomb Rush Cyberfunk | older | $39.99 | 12,645 98% | 379k | $15M (exactly $15,170,206) | Team Reptile |
| | Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory | older | $9.99 | 618 89% | 19k | $185k (exactly $185,215) | Rockodile |
| | Colony 37 | · EA | $2.99 | 224 95% | 6.7k | $20k (exactly $20,093) | Valen |
| | hate.net | $4.99 | 120 95% | 3.6k | $18k (exactly $17,964) | bonitāka | |
| | ATTA -Spot the Oddities in the Strange Hotel- | · EA older | $4.99 | 99 85% | 3.0k | $15k (exactly $14,820) | IDEA FRUITION |
 | Shoyu Ramen Forever | $4.99 | 66 89% | 2.0k | $9.9k (exactly $9,880) | POCKET HORROR BOX | |
 | Super Indie Square | older | $16.99 | 18 88% | 540 | $9.2k (exactly $9,175) | Eternal One Games |
 | School Paranormal Laboratory | older | $3.99 | 39 58% | 1.2k | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) | KIMIDORI SOFT |
 | Queen of Seas | older | $0.99 | 145 80% | 4.4k | $4.3k (exactly $4,306) | KomBits Game Studio |
 | ✈️Velocity Wings✈️ | $9.80 | 12 91% | 360 | $3.5k (exactly $3,528) | ZhiFeng Games | |
 | Idyllic cats: Japan | $9.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | GameRED indie | |
 | ULTRA VERTIGO | $4.99 | 21 100% | 630 | $3.1k (exactly $3,144) | TEAGHER STUDIO | |
 | Maze 95 Ultimate | $2.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $1.3k (exactly $1,346) | Hidden Palace | |
 | IROONI - Color Tag - | $3.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $718 (exactly $718) | North Fox Games | |
 | Go Up | $4.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Noble Whale Studios | |
 | CityExplorer | $7.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | YOKATA forest words |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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