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Should I ship a Supernatural Top-Down Shooter?
Top-Down Shooter + Supernatural
Only 11 developers shipped a Supernatural Top-Down 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, Section 13, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 39 more are announced, ×9.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.2k against a market of $480. 39 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $299 (exactly $299) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) |
| Top 25% | $16k (exactly $16,018) |
| Top 5% | $462k (exactly $461,769) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 42 |
| Announced | 39 |
| Effort | 4 / 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 870% on the market, supply 45% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 31%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Top-Down Shooter
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Supernatural
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Top-Down Shooter
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 72% positive over 1,587 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 8 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 39 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×9.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Top-Down Shooter with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + VampiresFair
- + Turn-Based StrategyFair
- + World War IIFair
- + IdlerFair
- + ArcheryFair
- + LovecraftianPoor odds
- + Tactical RPGPoor odds
- + Action RTSPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + DystopianPoor odds
Comparable games
HellSign 2021 · $1.3M 
Section 13 2025 · $462k 
RIFTSTORM 2026 · EA · $296k 
Ritual: Crown of Horns 2019 · $35k 
ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH 2024 · $28k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | HellSign | older | $19.99 | 2,147 67% | 64k | $1.3M (exactly $1,287,556) | Ballistic Interactive |
| | Section 13 | $19.99 | 770 70% | 23k | $462k (exactly $461,769) | Ocean Drive Studio, Inc. | |
| | RIFTSTORM | · EA | $14.99 | 659 70% | 20k | $296k (exactly $296,352) | Confiction Labs, Agate |
| | Ritual: Crown of Horns | older | $19.99 | 58 68% | 1.7k | $35k (exactly $34,783) | Draw Distance |
| | ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH | older | $5.99 | 154 80% | 4.6k | $28k (exactly $27,674) | jounitus |
 | Seek | $4.99 | 107 81% | 3.2k | $16k (exactly $16,018) | cloud_li | |
 | BAROQUE SHOOTING: REVERSED | $14.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | Sting | |
 | Swarm Survivor | older | $4.99 | 34 85% | 1.0k | $5.1k (exactly $5,090) | MegalOh! Games |
 | Mad Devils: Damned-finitive Edition | older | $14.99 | 11 54% | 330 | $4.9k (exactly $4,947) | Itzy Interactive Inc. |
 | Breach the Abyss | $4.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | Digital Firewood | |
 | Spooky Survivors | $2.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) | Aligned Games | |
 | Vengeance is His | $4.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | SSamBBas | |
 | Doom of the Undying | · EA | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | ClawSea |
 | Florida Survivor | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Cheddar Mine Games | |
 | Helen in Hell | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Soined |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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