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Should I ship a Card Game Action-Adventure?
Action-Adventure + Card Game
Only 17 developers shipped a Card Game 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, Demon Lord: Just a Block, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 53 more are announced, ×4.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450, ×0.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240; 1 in 20 cleared $800k, ×1281 the market median. Revenue is up 235% on the market; 53 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $240 (exactly $240) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $2.2k (exactly $2,248) |
| Top 5% | $805k (exactly $804,730) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 60 |
| Announced | 53 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 up 235% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 22%, 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 Game
- effort 2 / 10 · high · rules engine and card data
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Action-Adventure, Card Game; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Deckbuilding, Exploration
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $15.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2.5D, Pixel Graphics
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $15.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 3,002 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 9 in 10 of the 13 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 53 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Action-Adventure with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dating SimFair
- + MinigamesFair
- + BikesFair
- + TransportationFair
- + MotorbikeFair
- + TypingLong shot
- + Time AttackLong shot
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + MMORPGPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Villain ProtagonistPoor odds
Comparable games
Book of Demons 2018 · $6.0M 
Demon Lord: Just a Block 2026 · $805k 
9th Dawn Remake 2024 · $247k 
the cabin game 2026 · EA · $130k 
Last Regiment 2020 · $33k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Book of Demons | older | $24.99 | 8,010 91% | 240k | $6.0M (exactly $6,005,097) | Thing Trunk |
| | Demon Lord: Just a Block | $12.99 | 2,065 96% | 62k | $805k (exactly $804,730) | YuWave | |
| | 9th Dawn Remake | $15.99 | 514 86% | 15k | $247k (exactly $246,566) | Valorware | |
| | the cabin game | · EA | $11.99 | 362 86% | 11k | $130k (exactly $130,211) | Twisted Corridor👻 |
| | Last Regiment | older | $19.99 | 55 90% | 1.7k | $33k (exactly $32,984) | Boomzap Inc |
 | Echo Generation 2 | $24.99 | 41 73% | 1.2k | $31k (exactly $30,738) | Cococucumber | |
 | Playable Mockup | older | $6.99 | 75 89% | 2.3k | $16k (exactly $15,728) | 727 Not Hound |
 | Rock and Roots | older | $14.99 | 18 77% | 540 | $8.1k (exactly $8,095) | XOCUS |
 | Cards We're Dealt | older | $9.99 | 19 68% | 570 | $5.7k (exactly $5,694) | Tiny Shiny Things |
 | Chameleon - DYH | older | $4.99 | 27 100% | 810 | $4.0k (exactly $4,042) | DYH |
 | KindFolx | $14.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $2.2k (exactly $2,248) | Tristan Barona | |
 | 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 | |
 | Pix Eliz Great Trilogy | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | LM2Play Studio, Marion L'asticot | |
 | 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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