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Should I ship a Twin Stick Shooter Survival Horror?
Survival Horror + Twin Stick Shooter
Only 7 developers shipped a Twin Stick Shooter Survival Horror 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, Whisper Mountain Outbreak, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×8.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.8k against a market of $630. 17 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) |
| Top 25% | $40k (exactly $39,560) |
| Top 5% | $580k (exactly $580,314) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 17 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 60% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Survival Horror
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Twin Stick Shooter
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Survival Horror, Twin Stick Shooter
- 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 79% positive over 3,299 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.2k. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×8.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Survival Horror with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVFair
- + DrivingFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + SnowFair
- + SportsFair
- + Outbreak SimFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + Boomer ShooterFair
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Spectacle fighterPoor odds
Comparable games
Whisper Mountain Outbreak 2025 · EA · $580k 
GARAGE: Bad Trip 2018 · $182k 
Gun Brothers 2020 · $43k 
Where the forest ends 2026 · $40k 
Dead Motherland: Zombie Co-op 2020 · $17k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Whisper Mountain Outbreak | · EA | $7.99 | 2,421 84% | 73k | $580k (exactly $580,314) | Toge Productions |
| | GARAGE: Bad Trip | older | $14.99 | 404 74% | 12k | $182k (exactly $181,679) | Zombie Dynamics |
| | Gun Brothers | older | $19.99 | 72 27% | 2.2k | $43k (exactly $43,178) | Rootify |
| | Where the forest ends | $9.99 | 132 68% | 4.0k | $40k (exactly $39,560) | MonkeyBassGames | |
| | Dead Motherland: Zombie Co-op | older | $5.99 | 97 48% | 2.9k | $17k (exactly $17,431) | DEKLAZON |
 | When the Light Dies | $4.99 | 80 71% | 2.4k | $12k (exactly $11,976) | Electric Monkeys, Secret Level Studios | |
 | Survivors Of The Zombie World | · EA older | $5.99 | 54 79% | 1.6k | $9.7k (exactly $9,704) | Dafu Game Studio |
 | Heartless Dark | older | $11.99 | 19 89% | 570 | $6.8k (exactly $6,834) | iamRoarke |
 | Undead Souls | older | $19.99 | 11 9% | 330 | $6.6k (exactly $6,597) | Rootify |
 | Enemy Remains | older | $12.99 | 9 66% | 270 | $3.5k (exactly $3,507) | GameRealmMadness |
 | Monsters Loot Swag | $19.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | YorkshireRifles | |
 | Still Space | $2.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) | Sofa Interactive | |
 | Office Outbreak Savior | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Creaky Door Studios | |
 | Terrorsepsis | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 659 Records (PTY) LTD |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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