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Should I ship a Western Twin Stick Shooter?
Twin Stick Shooter + Western
Only 7 developers shipped a Western Twin Stick 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, Graveyard Gunslingers, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 8 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $4.9k against a market of $630. 8 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) |
|---|---|
| Median | $4.9k (exactly $4,852) |
| Top 25% | $19k (exactly $19,424) |
| Top 5% | $54k (exactly $53,693) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 195% on the market, supply 35% more 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.
- Twin Stick Shooter
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Western
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Twin Stick Shooter
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $7.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 7,550 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $4.5k. 8 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Twin Stick Shooter with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Psychological HorrorFair
- + Looter ShooterPoor odds
- + Bullet HeavenPoor odds
- + Tower DefensePoor odds
- + MedievalPoor odds
- + LootPoor odds
- + Action RPGPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
- + 2D FighterPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + DestructionPoor odds
Comparable games
West of Dead 2020 · $773k 
Kill The Crows 2023 · $426k 
Secret Ponchos 2015 · $276k 
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure 2013 · $147k 
Dust & Neon 2023 · $128k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | West of Dead | older | $19.99 | 1,289 76% | 39k | $773k (exactly $773,013) | Upstream Arcade |
| | Kill The Crows | older | $4.99 | 2,848 95% | 85k | $426k (exactly $426,346) | 5minlab Corp. |
| | Secret Ponchos | older | $14.99 | 613 73% | 18k | $276k (exactly $275,666) | Switchblade Monkeys Entertainment |
| | Super Amazing Wagon Adventure | older | $2.99 | 1,638 95% | 49k | $147k (exactly $146,929) | sparsevector |
| | Dust & Neon | older | $14.99 | 284 76% | 8.5k | $128k (exactly $127,715) | David Marquardt Studios |
 | Guns'n'Stories: Bulletproof VR | older | $9.99 | 387 87% | 12k | $116k (exactly $115,984) | MIROWIN |
 | Graveyard Gunslingers | $7.99 | 224 58% | 6.7k | $54k (exactly $53,693) | PyroPhysics | |
 | A Fistful of Gun | older | $9.99 | 137 59% | 4.1k | $41k (exactly $41,059) | FarmerGnome |
 | Ritual: Crown of Horns | older | $19.99 | 58 68% | 1.7k | $35k (exactly $34,783) | Draw Distance |
 | TombStar | older | $14.99 | 72 76% | 2.2k | $32k (exactly $32,378) | Andy Sum, Marcus Grambau |
 | Rose and Locket | $11.99 | 54 92% | 1.6k | $19k (exactly $19,424) | Whistling Wizard | |
 | Bad Pixels | · EA | $11.99 | 22 95% | 660 | $7.9k (exactly $7,913) | Dadako |
 | Westild's Law | $5.99 | 27 92% | 810 | $4.9k (exactly $4,852) | BUG-Studio | |
 | Cordels & Spells | $9.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | Supernova Games | |
 | Super Shootout | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Super Moon Games | |
 | catboy vs landlords | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | laggyluk |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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