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Should I ship a Sokoban Tabletop game?
Sokoban + Tabletop
Only 11 developers shipped a Sokoban Tabletop 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, Morphing Blocks, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 4 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 2 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $89 against a market of $120. 4 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $89 (exactly $89) |
| Top 25% | $148 (exactly $148) |
| Top 5% | $505 (exactly $505) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 70 |
| Announced | 4 |
| Effort | 2 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $1.99 |
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 805% on the market, supply 45% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 2 / 10 · static 2D art, simple logic
- Systems
- Sokoban, Tabletop
- Price point
- $1.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 100% positive over 34 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 4 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Sokoban with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Turn-Based StrategyFair
- + CatsFair
- + LogicFair
- + Grid-Based MovementFair
- + PuzzleFair
- + ProgrammingFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + StrategyFair
- + Puzzle PlatformerFair
- + FuturisticLong shot
- + Open WorldPoor odds
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| | I'm on Observation Duty 4 | older | $4.99 | 787 96% | 24k | $118k (exactly $117,814) | Notovia |
| | EXIT | older | $7.99 | 42 88% | 1.3k | $10k (exactly $10,067) | SIXNAILS |
| | Unlock The King | older | $0.99 | 329 95% | 9.9k | $9.8k (exactly $9,771) | Minimol Games |
| | Fluffy Cubed | older | $1.99 | 97 93% | 2.9k | $5.8k (exactly $5,791) | Naoka Games |
 | Chess Brain: Dark Troops | older | $2.99 | 64 93% | 1.9k | $5.7k (exactly $5,741) | Caio Flavio |
 | Chess Brain | older | $0.99 | 156 89% | 4.7k | $4.6k (exactly $4,633) | Caio Flavio |
 | Knight Swap | older | $0.99 | 124 89% | 3.7k | $3.7k (exactly $3,683) | Minimol Games |
 | Laruaville 11 Match 3 Puzzle | older | $9.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | LGT SIA |
 | Fluffy Milo | older | $1.99 | 47 97% | 1.4k | $2.8k (exactly $2,806) | Cozy Village |
 | Morphing Blocks | $0.99 | 17 100% | 510 | $505 (exactly $505) | J. TAO | |
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 | Dream Kitten | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | SmartGames | |
 | Puyo! Sokoban | $0.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | SkyStudio | |
 | 24 Grab Points | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | Meta Entropy Culture | |
 | Puzzle Player | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | RuneWright Interactive | |
 | A Simple Square | $4.79 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Antharuu | |
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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