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Should I ship a Card Battler Action-Adventure?
Action-Adventure + Card Battler
Only 15 developers shipped a Card Battler Action-Adventure 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, Echo Generation 2, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 44 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, level with the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $30k, ×49 the market median. Revenue is up 460% on the market; 44 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $4.3k (exactly $4,302) |
| Top 5% | $31k (exactly $30,738) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 51 |
| Announced | 44 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 460% on the market, supply 120% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 25%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Action-Adventure
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Card Battler
- effort 3 / 10 · high · card rules plus simple encounter logic
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Action-Adventure, Card Battler; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Strategy, Tactical
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Pixel Graphics
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 160 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 44 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Action-Adventure with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
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Comparable games
Moonstone Island 2023 · $2.4M 
The Knight Witch 2022 · $386k 
Echo Generation 2 2026 · $31k 
Silan: Monster Girl Master! 2026 · $16k 
Playable Mockup 2022 · $16k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Moonstone Island | older | $19.99 | 4,063 84% | 122k | $2.4M (exactly $2,436,581) | Studio Supersoft |
| | The Knight Witch | older | $19.99 | 643 72% | 19k | $386k (exactly $385,607) | Super Mega Team |
| | Echo Generation 2 | $24.99 | 41 73% | 1.2k | $31k (exactly $30,738) | Cococucumber | |
| | Silan: Monster Girl Master! | $8.99 | 60 95% | 1.8k | $16k (exactly $16,182) | 愛の勇者 | |
| | Playable Mockup | older | $6.99 | 75 89% | 2.3k | $16k (exactly $15,728) | 727 Not Hound |
 | EndCycle VS | older | $4.99 | 81 88% | 2.4k | $12k (exactly $12,126) | 12B3 |
 | High Frontier 4 All | $19.99 | 17 17% | 510 | $10k (exactly $10,195) | Johan Brandt, Stewart Wan, Erik Lund, N… (Johan Brandt, Stewart Wan, Erik Lund, Nicolas Mondino, Theo Sandén, Leonard Wahlund, Alexander Wahrenstedt, Carl Nordholm, Erico Pizarro Gutierrez, Natdanai Puthom, Olivia Bernardsson, Dag Petersen, Sam Abou-Gabal, Pablo Schmidt, Spilios Kehagias, Aphiwit Lekphet, Zongying Liu, Markus Vikmanis, Kamila Kuzmiuk, Edvin Skogsholm Sanne, Janina Carvajal Ibacache, Adam Kallberg, Ricky Truong, Carl Forden, Robin Christopher Öhman Tejre, Malte Gundhus, Mathias Novakovic, Christopher Vedlund, Ivo Öjhage, Benjamin Grissom, Linus Granskog) | |
 | Dice Assassin | older | $2.99 | 76 69% | 2.3k | $6.8k (exactly $6,817) | Afil Games |
 | Trial of Ariah | $11.95 | 12 91% | 360 | $4.3k (exactly $4,302) | 30 Minute Games | |
 | CARDMON | older | $2.99 | 36 77% | 1.1k | $3.2k (exactly $3,229) | Nomas Games |
 | KindFolx | $14.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $2.2k (exactly $2,248) | Tristan Barona | |
 | Kinap | $2.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $1.2k (exactly $1,166) | Golden Adam Games | |
 | Enough with the Witch | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Birdy Games | |
 | Caelum's Crux | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Petros Giannopoulos | |
 | GGnZ: Deck of the Dead | $17.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $540 (exactly $540) | Evil Bunneh | |
 | Darkrise: War of the Undead | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Wynand Smit |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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