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Should I ship a Quick-Time Events 2D Fighter?
2D Fighter + Quick-Time Events
Only 6 developers shipped a Quick-Time Events 2D Fighter 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, Type or Die, 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, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $480 against a market of $630. 8 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $479 (exactly $479) |
| Top 25% | $1.2k (exactly $1,197) |
| Top 5% | $12k (exactly $12,171) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 21%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- 2D Fighter
- effort 5 / 10 · low · frame-precise animation and rollback netcode
- Quick-Time Events
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- 2D Fighter, Quick-Time Events
- Price point
- $3.99 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 $13.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 16,756 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 8 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
2D Fighter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + RhythmFair
- + SimulationFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + ManagementFair
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Comparable games
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Monster Girl Conquest Records Battle Orc 2024 · $31k 
Type or Die 2026 · $12k 
Toubatsu 2024 · $3.8k 
Boulette Hell 2023 · $3.4k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Hinokami Chronicles | older | $59.99 | 16,545 87% | 496k | $30M (exactly $29,776,036) | CyberConnect2 |
| | Monster Girl Conquest Records Battle Orc | older | $10.99 | 94 93% | 2.8k | $31k (exactly $30,992) | mozu field |
| | Type or Die | $13.99 | 29 31% | 870 | $12k (exactly $12,171) | Type or Die | |
| | Toubatsu | older | $6.99 | 18 77% | 540 | $3.8k (exactly $3,775) | ぽんこん堂 |
| | Boulette Hell | older | $6.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $3.4k (exactly $3,355) | Lucas Delvallet, Quentin Delvallet |
 | UNPLUGGED | older | $4.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | omidjm |
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 | Swing Hero | $3.99 | 10 70% | 300 | $1.2k (exactly $1,197) | 八口工作室 | |
 | S.S.C. Rusted | $3.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $479 (exactly $479) | Series Sun | |
 | Fighter X Fighter | older | $1.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $358 (exactly $358) | WANG TAO |
 | Crushiator | $1.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | Carus | |
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 | Samurai Standoff | · EA | $8.31 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Bearstick |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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