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Should I ship a Vampire Top-Down Shooter?
Top-Down Shooter + Vampires
Only 16 developers shipped a Vampire 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, Rocket Rats, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.7k, ×6.0 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $240. Revenue is up 175% on the market; 10 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) |
| Top 25% | $74k (exactly $73,814) |
| Top 5% | $429k (exactly $429,124) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 48 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 175% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, 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
- Vampires
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Top-Down Shooter; all of the top 25% also carry Action Roguelike, Bullet Hell, Roguelike
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 8 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Pixel Graphics, Top-Down
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 4,740 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 7 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Top-Down Shooter with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Turn-Based StrategyFair
- + World War IIFair
- + IdlerFair
- + ArcheryFair
- + LovecraftianPoor odds
- + Tactical RPGPoor odds
- + Action RTSPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + ModernPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + DystopianPoor odds
- + Bullet HeavenPoor odds
Comparable games
Apocalypse Party 2023 · $1.4M 
Rocket Rats 2024 · $429k 
Asgard's Fall — Viking Survivors 2026 · $390k 
Goobies 2023 · $335k 
Touhou ~Red Empress Devil. 2025 · $118k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Apocalypse Party | older | $9.99 | 4,658 72% | 140k | $1.4M (exactly $1,396,003) | Breaker Games |
| | Rocket Rats | $5.99 | 2,388 94% | 72k | $429k (exactly $429,124) | Gagonfe | |
| | Asgard's Fall — Viking Survivors | $9.99 | 1,301 79% | 39k | $390k (exactly $389,910) | Soulpotion | |
| | Goobies | older | $5.99 | 1,866 90% | 56k | $335k (exactly $335,320) | Höganäs Spel |
| | Touhou ~Red Empress Devil. | $8.99 | 438 70% | 13k | $118k (exactly $118,129) | STUDIO POCO | |
 | Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood | older | $4.99 | 748 77% | 22k | $112k (exactly $111,976) | Mega Cat Studios |
 | 东方栖霞园 ~ Blue devil in the Belvedere. | older | $9.99 | 297 92% | 8.9k | $89k (exactly $89,011) | 东方祈华梦制作组 |
 | Sea of Survivors | · EA older | $6.99 | 415 81% | 12k | $87k (exactly $87,026) | Nah Yeah Games |
 | Larva Mortus | older | $4.99 | 511 76% | 15k | $76k (exactly $76,497) | · |
 | Iron Core: Mech Survivor | $6.99 | 352 73% | 11k | $74k (exactly $73,814) | Soda Game Studio | |
 | Ghosts Keep Out | $3.99 | 130 75% | 3.9k | $16k (exactly $15,561) | Only Fun Games | |
 | Frogmageddon | $4.99 | 45 91% | 1.4k | $6.7k (exactly $6,736) | Frog Mage Udon, Sunset Dreamland | |
 | Bloodmoon Survivors | $4.99 | 32 100% | 960 | $4.8k (exactly $4,790) | Nicholas Evelson | |
 | NUMANUIN | $4.99 | 25 92% | 750 | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) | Siberian Mouse | |
 | Dark Erosion: Endless Siege | $6.99 | 15 80% | 450 | $3.1k (exactly $3,146) | LaoLiang | |
 | Dracs After Dusk | $3.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $1.7k (exactly $1,676) | OliveHillStudios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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