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Should I ship a 3D Platformer Party-Based RPG?
Party-Based RPG + 3D Platformer
Only 18 developers shipped a 3D Platformer Party-Based RPG 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, OUTCLAW, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 41 more are announced, ×5.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300 in the last 2 years and $480 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 7 developers shipped in the last year and 41 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $297 (exactly $297) |
| Top 25% | $3.4k (exactly $3,448) |
| Top 5% | $33k (exactly $32,987) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 75 |
| Announced | 41 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 380% on the market, supply 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 24%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Party-Based RPG
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- 3D Platformer
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Party-Based RPG, 3D Platformer; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry RPG, Adventure, Strategy
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $22.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Third Person, 3D, Cartoony
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $22.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 215 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. All of the 15 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 41 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Party-Based RPG with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Board GameFair
- + Point & ClickFair
- + 2D PlatformerFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Martial ArtsPoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
- + Turn-BasedPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + IncrementalPoor odds
Comparable games
FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE 2022 · $52M 
CRISIS CORE –FINAL FANTASY VII– REUNION 2022 · $10M 
Chinese Online Game 2024 · $2.0M 
No Straight Roads: Encore Edition 2021 · $1.4M 
THE 4 SINS 2024 · $1.0M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE INTERGRADE | older | $39.99 | 43,473 87% | 1.3M | $52M (exactly $52,154,558) | Square Enix |
| | CRISIS CORE –FINAL FANTASY VII– REUNION | older | $49.99 | 6,949 89% | 208k | $10M (exactly $10,421,415) | Square Enix, TOSE CO., LTD. |
| | Chinese Online Game | older | $9.99 | 6,610 82% | 198k | $2.0M (exactly $1,981,017) | 648工作室 |
| | No Straight Roads: Encore Edition | older | $24.99 | 1,813 89% | 54k | $1.4M (exactly $1,359,206) | Metronomik |
| | THE 4 SINS | older | $9.99 | 3,377 23% | 101k | $1.0M (exactly $1,012,087) | 奇门互娱 |
 | Sword and Fairy 3 | older | $7.99 | 1,936 84% | 58k | $464k (exactly $464,059) | SOFTSTAR TECHNOLOGY(SHANGHAI) |
 | Born of Bread | older | $24.99 | 460 79% | 14k | $345k (exactly $344,862) | WildArts Games |
 | Sword and Fairy 3 Ex | older | $7.99 | 524 82% | 16k | $126k (exactly $125,603) | SOFTSTAR TECHNOLOGY(SHANGHAI) |
 | Sword and Fairy 4 | older | $12.99 | 245 77% | 7.4k | $95k (exactly $95,476) | SOFTSTAR TECHNOLOGY(SHANGHAI) |
 | Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Clouds Faraway | older | $9.99 | 210 70% | 6.3k | $63k (exactly $62,937) | SOFTSTAR ENTERTAINMENT, DOMO Studio |
 | OUTCLAW | $24.99 | 44 93% | 1.3k | $33k (exactly $32,987) | Moss Monkey | |
 | DungeonCrawlers | $8.99 | 77 68% | 2.3k | $21k (exactly $20,767) | KusanohitoCreative | |
 | Three Kingdoms: Shu-Han Chronicles | $12.99 | 20 45% | 600 | $7.8k (exactly $7,794) | QianFan Game | |
 | Soul•Apocalypto | $11.99 | 20 80% | 600 | $7.2k (exactly $7,194) | 卜乙冈(Ploygon) | |
 | Legend of the Wargod | · EA | $22.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $3.4k (exactly $3,448) | Revelen |
 | Mush Dash | · EA | $2.99 | 34 82% | 1.0k | $3.1k (exactly $3,050) | 笨笨Bon, CrazyDog, 邻居家的猫 |
 | The Curse of Mount Madre | $9.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | Kevin Musto | |
 | Rebel Infernal Path | $15.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $480 (exactly $480) | Lonewolf&Cat / 孤独な狼と猫 | |
 | Nori Game | $0.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $297 (exactly $297) | Nori Game | |
 | Desert Mercenary corps | $8.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $270 (exactly $270) | CXCY CO.,LTD |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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