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Should I ship a Werewolf Shooter?
Shooter + Werewolves
Only 9 developers shipped a Werewolf Shooter 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, Haunted Lands, 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, ×2.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $750, ×1.2 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $90; 1 in 20 cleared $45k, ×72 the market median. Revenue is down 90% on the market; 14 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $748 (exactly $748) |
| Top 25% | $1.5k (exactly $1,455) |
| Top 5% | $45k (exactly $45,105) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $2.99 |
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 90% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 28%, 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
- Werewolves
- 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
- Price point
- $2.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $7.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 68% positive over 5,665 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 14 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Shooter with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dating SimFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + VampiresFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Match 3Fair
- + SnowFair
- + Boss RushFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + ArcadeLong shot
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
Comparable games
Legendary 2008 · $392k 
GIBZ 2017 · $237k 
Overcast - Walden and the Werewolf 2014 · $185k 
Haunted Lands 2026 · $45k 
S.P.A.T. 2021 · EA · $45k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Legendary | older | $5.99 | 2,184 57% | 66k | $392k (exactly $392,465) | Spark Unlimited |
| | GIBZ | older | $5.99 | 1,321 88% | 40k | $237k (exactly $237,384) | Torrunt |
| | Overcast - Walden and the Werewolf | older | $4.99 | 1,236 61% | 37k | $185k (exactly $185,029) | Microblast Games |
| | Haunted Lands | $5.99 | 251 77% | 7.5k | $45k (exactly $45,105) | alevgor | |
| | S.P.A.T. | · EA older | $11.99 | 125 49% | 3.8k | $45k (exactly $44,962) | DeadGrass Games |
 | Rescue Operation | older | $3.99 | 253 87% | 7.6k | $30k (exactly $30,284) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Sinister Halloween | older | $7.99 | 125 82% | 3.8k | $30k (exactly $29,962) | Celeritas Games |
 | Horror Legends | older | $4.99 | 113 88% | 3.4k | $17k (exactly $16,916) | October Games |
 | Monster Showdown | older | $14.99 | 22 72% | 660 | $9.9k (exactly $9,893) | Virtual Uppercut Studios, Yahya Danboos |
 | Liquidator 2: Welcome to Hell | $6.99 | 35 62% | 1.1k | $7.3k (exactly $7,340) | Parallax Arts Studio | |
 | Zombies Ate My Femboy | $0.99 | 49 87% | 1.5k | $1.5k (exactly $1,455) | FzzyBzzy | |
 | Undead Hunter Part I | $1.99 | 14 78% | 420 | $836 (exactly $836) | Fireplay Studio | |
 | Dead Iron | $4.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Villain Laboratories | |
 | Lock. Stock. And Hungry Pumpkins. | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Cornfield Games | |
 | The Big Owl Night | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Visual Slumber Studios | |
 | Nocturne Maze: Shadows in the Hedge | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Xayba | |
 | FlashDuels | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Luis Munoz |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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