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Should I ship a Walking Simulator Shooter?
Shooter + Walking Simulator
Of 68 developers who shipped a Walking Simulator Shooter in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 62 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.2k, ×1.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $480. Revenue is up 50% on the market; 62 games are announced against 37 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $479 (exactly $479) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) |
| Top 25% | $9.3k (exactly $9,348) |
| Top 5% | $139k (exactly $138,703) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 68 |
| Released games | 226 |
| Announced | 62 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 50% on the market, supply 15% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Shooter
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Walking Simulator
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Shooter, Walking Simulator; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Adventure, Exploration
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $17.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, Realistic, First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $17.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 11,707 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $480. 9 in 10 of the 40 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 62 games are announced against 37 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Shooter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dating SimFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + VampiresFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Match 3Fair
- + SnowFair
- + Boss RushFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + ArcadeLong shot
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
Comparable games
theHunter: Call of the Wild™ 2017 · $102M 
Longvinter 2025 · $4.2M 
CastleMiner Z 2014 · $1.4M 
Hail to the Rainbow 2025 · $1.1M 
Hunt Down The Freeman 2018 · $1.1M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | theHunter: Call of the Wild™ | older | $19.99 | 170,472 89% | 5.1M | $102M (exactly $102,232,058) | Expansive Worlds |
| | Longvinter | $19.99 | 6,951 68% | 209k | $4.2M (exactly $4,168,515) | Uuvana Studios | |
| | CastleMiner Z | older | $5.99 | 7,939 83% | 238k | $1.4M (exactly $1,426,638) | DigitalDNA Games |
| | Hail to the Rainbow | $14.99 | 2,533 90% | 76k | $1.1M (exactly $1,139,090) | Носков Сергей | |
| | Hunt Down The Freeman | older | $9.99 | 3,785 54% | 114k | $1.1M (exactly $1,134,364) | Royal Rudius Entertainment |
 | 35MM | older | $8.99 | 3,508 71% | 105k | $946k (exactly $946,108) | Носков Сергей |
 | GET EVEN | older | $29.99 | 923 76% | 28k | $830k (exactly $830,423) | The Farm 51 |
 | Takedown: Red Sabre | older | $4.99 | 3,550 41% | 107k | $531k (exactly $531,435) | Serellan LLC |
 | Squirrel Stapler | older | $7.99 | 2,062 96% | 62k | $494k (exactly $494,261) | David Szymanski |
 | Pih | older | $8.99 | 1,767 94% | 53k | $477k (exactly $476,560) | BecomeANobody |
 | It Takes a War | $5.99 | 885 91% | 27k | $159k (exactly $159,034) | Thomas Mackinnon | |
 | Project: Mist | · EA | $17.99 | 257 72% | 7.7k | $139k (exactly $138,703) | Chicken Launcher |
 | Virtual Hunter | $24.99 | 173 71% | 5.2k | $130k (exactly $129,698) | Korpi Games Oy | |
 | Project Songbird | $14.99 | 195 85% | 5.9k | $88k (exactly $87,692) | FYRE Games, Conner Rush | |
 | The Pale Mimic | $7.99 | 345 86% | 10k | $83k (exactly $82,696) | Dark Snow Games | |
 | Miami Paradise 2 | $14.99 | 131 94% | 3.9k | $59k (exactly $58,911) | Entropy Digital Entertainment | |
 | CyberTaxi: Lunatic Nights | · EA | $13.99 | 68 55% | 2.0k | $29k (exactly $28,540) | Hed Media Games |
 | Poop Killer - Flush or Die | $4.99 | 169 92% | 5.1k | $25k (exactly $25,299) | 616 GAMES |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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