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Should I ship a Sniper Sports game?
Sniper + Sports
Only 6 developers shipped a Sniper Sports 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, Shooters, Ready!, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 7 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $300 against a market of $630. 7 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $180 (exactly $180) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $4.6k (exactly $4,641) |
| Top 5% | $121k (exactly $120,808) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 7 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 45% on the market, supply 40% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Sniper, Sports
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 1,669 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. 7 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 7 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Sniper with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Sci-fiFair
- + ArcadeLong shot
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + TacticalPoor odds
- + Action-AdventurePoor odds
- + FPSPoor odds
- + CombatPoor odds
- + Bullet TimePoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
- + ShooterPoor odds
- + Gun CustomizationPoor odds
- + ActionPoor odds
Comparable games
Shooters, Ready! 2025 · $121k 
Project Hunt 2024 · $116k 
Ski Sniper 2017 · $41k 
False Front 2023 · $22k 
Reload 2015 · $14k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Shooters, Ready! | $4.99 | 807 99% | 24k | $121k (exactly $120,808) | おこめたべたべず | |
| | Project Hunt | older | $24.99 | 155 88% | 4.7k | $116k (exactly $116,204) | Mind Mythic |
| | Ski Sniper | older | $4.99 | 274 84% | 8.2k | $41k (exactly $41,018) | Crazy Rocks |
| | False Front | older | $8.99 | 80 82% | 2.4k | $22k (exactly $21,576) | Svantech Studios |
| | Reload | older | $4.99 | 95 70% | 2.9k | $14k (exactly $14,222) | Top3Line s.r.o. |
 | The Original Moorhuhn Hunt | $2.99 | 140 97% | 4.2k | $13k (exactly $12,558) | Higgs Games GmbH, GeekPit Studio | |
 | Hunting Unlimited 1 | older | $9.99 | 32 81% | 960 | $9.6k (exactly $9,590) | SCS Software |
 | Moorhuhn X - Crazy Chicken X | older | $4.99 | 47 100% | 1.4k | $7.0k (exactly $7,036) | Higgs Games GmbH, GeekPit Studio |
 | BangBang PewPew | older | $24.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $6.0k (exactly $5,998) | Molerat Digital Art Ltd. |
 | Moorhuhn 2 | $4.99 | 31 96% | 930 | $4.6k (exactly $4,641) | Higgs Games GmbH, GeekPit Studio | |
 | Moorhuhn Remake | $2.99 | 38 89% | 1.1k | $3.4k (exactly $3,409) | Higgs Games GmbH, GeekPit Studio | |
 | Accurate Adjacent Ballistics Simulator | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | MagusForge | |
 | Shuriken Practice 3 | $7.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | myBad Studios | |
 | Medieval Archer Simulator | · EA | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Hard Shark Games |
 | click frenzy | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | bulbafan | |
 | Dinosaur Hunting Simulator | · EA | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hard Shark Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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