Description
2019-2021 PC & Consoles Shooter Game Genre Overview. This research contains information regarding 1400+ shooter games made for PC and gaming consoles. Includes both released games and still developing projects. Contains the signals and trends of shooter genre, shows the empty spots in the industry, least and most presented features, settings, time eras, multiplayer types and many other options describing every game mentioned.
Audiences who might need this research:
- Game developers who are in the middle of development process for shooter game - this research provides the extensive information on all the releases within shooter genre releasing near to your project. You can also filter the included raw catalog of games by multiple filters and easily find the closest competitors to your game and improve your project in a way it becomes much more competitive and innovative;
- Game developers who want to decide what their next project should be - shooter genre is one of the most popular genres in gaming industry so it’s crucial to understand the shooter market and know all the spots that are not presented by any studios. This way developers can expect to develop unique experience without any real competitors which should lead to better sales. We have evaluated all the shooters that are already released or are going to be released soon so we have the precise knowledge of what is needed in the industry;
- Video game investors / venture funds - this research contains 1400+ games which are all released not that long ago or are going to be released soon, so it can be used to find the next project to invest to or better understand what is going to be trending in the near future to use this knowledge to choice the game with much better chances of becoming next hit.
- Content
- About research
- — Goals
- — Relevance and timing
- — Staff time
- — Methodology
- Video game Shooters 2019-2021
- — Raw data guide
- —- Shooter Tables Guide 2019-2021
- —- Indie Shooters Guide 2020
- Classification of Shooters by the main tags of the gaming community v1.0
- Consolidated Shooter Data
- — The dynamic and focus of the Shooter market
- —- Internal characteristics
- —- Classification of Shooters in the gaming community
- —- General classification of the games
- —- Classification by setting
- —- Classification by duration
- —- Additional characteristics
- — Dynamics and direction of the Indie Shooter market
- —- Quantity table
- — Dynamics of community tag Shooters on the distribution site Steam
- — Identification of signals and combined indicators of the studied blocks
- —- Growth trends
- —- Combined indicators of Shooters
- —— Cross-platform
- —— VR technology
- —— In-game purchases
- —— The ratio of type by mass and game genres
- —— Average indicators of Shooters depending on the price
- —— The depth of genre compatibility with Shooters
- —— Free to Play Shooters
- — Self Publishing and Publishing
- — Top countries creating Shooters
- Dataset expansion
- — The example of an extended Dataset for the abstract Top Shooter 2020
- Conclusion
- — Hypotheses and facts Data40
- About the Authors
Goals
- Form an up-to-date base on Shooters for Computer and Console platforms;
- Determine the classification of Shooters established in the global gaming community;
- Determine indirect indicators of the classification of Shooters;
- Generate Shooter Datasets from distribution sites for 2019, 2020, 2021;
- Generate an Indie Shooter Dataset for 2020;
- Review and comparison of Shooters’ indicators and their changes in each year;
- Identify rising stats and vacant areas in the Shooter genre.
Relevance and timing
- Primary raw data were collected from 05/20/2020 to 07/10/2020;
- The processing and analysis of the collected information was carried out in the period from 07/10/2020 to 08/30/2020;
- An additional stage of collecting raw data was carried out in the period from 07/22/2020 to 08/15/2020.
Staff time
- 595 hours – raw data collecting;
- 164 hours – data structuring;
- 96 hours – analytical work and conclusions.
Full Version Also Contains
- XLSX raw data table with:
- 634 Shooters in 2019;
- 681 Shooters in 2020;
- 124 Shooters in 2021;
- 2236 Indie Shooters in Q1-Q2 2020.
- 25 consolidated tables with additional data based on Raw Data table:
- 1 tables with Dynamics and direction of the Indie Shooter market;
- 1 table with Dynamics of community tag Shooters on the distribution Steam website;
- 1 table with Most Popular View Among Cross Platform Shooters;
- 1 table with Most Popular Mixed Genre of Cross-Platform Shooters;
- 1 table with Most Popular Platforms Among Cross-Platform Shooters;
- 1 table with Most popular view among VR Shooters;
- 1 table with Most popular mixed genre among VR Shooters;
- 1 table with Comparison of average prices for Shooters and VR Shooters;
- 1 table with Most popular view among Shooters with In-Game Purchases;
- 1 table with Most popular mixed genre of Shooters with In-Game Purchases;
- 1 table with The ratio of the multiplayer type and game genres (dynamics by year);
- 1 table with The ratio of the multiplayer type and game genres (dynamics between years);
- 3 tables with Average indicators of Shooters depending on the price: $0.1 to $15 (Low), $15.1 to $30 (Middle), $30.1 and more (High);
- 1 table with The depth of genre compatibility with Shooters;
- 1 table with Dynamics of Free to Play Multiplayer Shooters character;
- 1 table with Dynamics of Free to Play Shooters by View Type;
- 1 table with Dynamics of Free to Play Shooters by mixing with the main genres;
- 1 table with Top Shooters Publishers by year;
- 1 table with Top Self Published Shooters by Year;
- 3 tables with Top countries creating Shooters: 2019, 2020, 2021;
- 1 table with Extended Dataset for Top 5 Shooter Games of 2020.
- 71 consolidated charts and graphs with analysis and additional information;
- Extended additional texts;
- Gaming Industry Events 2020 Catalog.
- 2019-2021 PC & Consoles Shooter Game Genre Overview.pdf
- 2019-2021 PC & Consoles Shooter Game Genre Overview Dataset.xlsx
- Gaming Industry Events 2020 Catalog.xlsx
