We’ve released something you’ve long requested for – filters for genre analytics!
Genre analytics is a tool that allows players to quickly see which sub-genres over- and underperform in the market. These new filters allow you to narrow down the pool of games being looked at.
Example on how to use the tool:
Say you’re an indie developer thinking of genres to focus on for your new game.
You’d go to genre analytics and pick the following filters:
- Indie games only – exclude any AAA titles to make it more relevant
- Price $9.99-39.99 – you’re considering a paid game, but under the high end 59.99 or 69.99 price points
- At least 10 reviews – leaving out all tiny hobby projects
- Min pos rating of 70% – let’s assume your game will not be hated
- First release date – 2019 or later – make sure to only include more recent games in the landscape
This will leave you with over 8000 games in the comparison set and give you a picture that looks something like this:
Open world survival craft, colony sim and 4x games dominate that landscape. Say you like the idea of colony sims. Let’s dig deeper and add that as a filter.
From here, we can tell that survival element of colony sims (unsurprisingly) makes huge difference to games of this subgenre.
