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Should I ship a 2D Fighter Battle Royale?
Battle Royale + 2D Fighter
Only 14 developers shipped a 2D Fighter Battle Royale 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, Backpack Jianghu, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 10 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $330 in the last 2 years and $240 over 4, against a market of $1.3k for a 10 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 13 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $330 (exactly $330) |
| Top 25% | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) |
| Top 5% | $237k (exactly $237,130) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 49 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 10 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 down 10% on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Battle Royale
- effort 10 / 10 · low · 100-player servers and constant live ops
- 2D Fighter
- effort 5 / 10 · low · frame-precise animation and rollback netcode
What it takes
- Effort
- 10 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Battle Royale, 2D Fighter
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 611 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 9 in 10 of the 14 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Battle Royale with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + MysteryLong shot
- + LootPoor odds
- + SportsPoor odds
- + Hero ShooterPoor odds
- + PuzzlePoor odds
- + Psychological HorrorPoor odds
- + Dungeon CrawlerPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + 4 Player LocalPoor odds
- + RoguelitePoor odds
Comparable games
Backpack Jianghu 2026 · $237k 
LEGO® Brawls 2022 · $199k 
Bounty Battle 2020 · $23k 
Russian Drunken Boxers 2021 · $8.2k 
The Great Axe 2025 · $7.8k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Backpack Jianghu | $13.99 | 565 80% | 17k | $237k (exactly $237,130) | 背包工作室 | |
| | LEGO® Brawls | older | $9.99 | 663 78% | 20k | $199k (exactly $198,701) | Red Games Co. |
| | Bounty Battle | older | $19.99 | 39 20% | 1.2k | $23k (exactly $23,388) | Dark Screen Games |
| | Russian Drunken Boxers | older | $24.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $8.2k (exactly $8,247) | Laush Dmitriy Segeevich |
| | The Great Axe | $19.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) | Gamesforgames | |
 | Go All Out | older | $9.99 | 18 61% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | Blue Sunset Games |
 | Hololive Fantasy Battle | $13.00 | 11 90% | 330 | $4.3k (exactly $4,290) | G-Blossom | |
 | Moccoletti | $9.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) | Consortium of Octopus | |
 | Street Racer | older | $10.99 | 5 40% | 150 | $1.6k (exactly $1,648) | Vivid Image |
 | TactiCats | $5.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.3k (exactly $1,258) | HungryDingo | |
 | Tank Fight | $7.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | Pixel_Gamer, TNT_MAN1111 | |
 | PSI Masquerade Deadly Wonderland | $10.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $330 (exactly $330) | Mururunsoft | |
 | 1v1 Me | $3.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | A3 Industries, David Henry | |
 | Battle Mayhem | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Sam Farnsley | |
 | Suds | · EA | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Honeybell Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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