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Should I ship a Top-Down Shooter Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + Top-Down Shooter
Only 6 developers shipped a Top-Down Shooter Spectacle fighter 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, Silly Polly Beast, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×6.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $3.7k against a market of $1.5k. 20 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $270 (exactly $270) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) |
| Top 25% | $14k (exactly $14,028) |
| Top 5% | $1.4M (exactly $1,366,117) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 2000% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 3%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Spectacle fighter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Top-Down Shooter
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Spectacle fighter, Top-Down Shooter
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 3,087 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $270. 20 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Spectacle fighter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Score AttackFair
- + HorrorFair
- + LootPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + MythologyPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + FightingPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
Comparable games
Silly Polly Beast 2025 · $1.4M 
LEVEL UP 80 2024 · $119k 
NIDUS 2024 · $60k 
Nelo 2017 · EA · $21k 
Fishermurs 2017 · $19k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Silly Polly Beast | $19.99 | 2,278 90% | 68k | $1.4M (exactly $1,366,117) | Anji | |
| | LEVEL UP 80 | older | $39.99 | 99 79% | 3.0k | $119k (exactly $118,770) | Galactic Geckon |
| | NIDUS | older | $8.99 | 223 93% | 6.7k | $60k (exactly $60,143) | Caleb Wood |
| | Nelo | · EA older | $4.99 | 139 69% | 4.2k | $21k (exactly $20,808) | Magic and Mirrors |
| | Fishermurs | older | $4.99 | 127 67% | 3.8k | $19k (exactly $19,012) | Reward Hunters |
 | WarForwards | older | $9.99 | 47 78% | 1.4k | $14k (exactly $14,086) | Roman Pak |
 | Touhou Brawl | $11.99 | 39 51% | 1.2k | $14k (exactly $14,028) | FIVE DUCK GAMES | |
 | Deadfall | older | $9.99 | 29 93% | 870 | $8.7k (exactly $8,691) | BekkerDev Studio |
 | TechBeat Heart | older | $1.99 | 78 92% | 2.3k | $4.7k (exactly $4,657) | Lost Machine Games |
 | HUNTERS FOR YOUR BRAIN | older | $4.99 | 28 71% | 840 | $4.2k (exactly $4,192) | REANIMATO.RUS |
 | NUMANUIN | $4.99 | 25 92% | 750 | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) | Siberian Mouse | |
 | Liberator TD | $9.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Okay Studios | |
 | Devastablance. Mountain Brotherhood | $3.00 | 3 100% | 90 | $270 (exactly $270) | Shvap Games Studio | |
 | Outlanders: Hunt and Survive | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | DIG Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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