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Should I ship a Tabletop Action-Adventure?
Action-Adventure + Tabletop
Only 10 developers shipped a Tabletop 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, High Frontier 4 All, 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.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $300 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 8 developers shipped in the last year and 13 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) |
| Top 5% | $10k (exactly $10,195) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 49 |
| Announced | 13 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 300% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, 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
- Tabletop
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Action-Adventure, Tabletop
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 68% positive over 70 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 13 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
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
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition 2013 · $5.7M 
Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition 2014 · $1.9M 
Who Needs a Hero? 2021 · $832k 
RPG Time: The Legend of Wright 2022 · $375k 
Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One 2022 · $85k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition | older | $19.99 | 9,478 92% | 284k | $5.7M (exactly $5,683,957) | Beamdog |
| | Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition | older | $19.99 | 3,107 91% | 93k | $1.9M (exactly $1,863,268) | Beamdog |
| | Who Needs a Hero? | older | $19.99 | 1,388 91% | 42k | $832k (exactly $832,384) | Henrique Faitta Chitolina, Pidro Soft |
| | RPG Time: The Legend of Wright | older | $29.99 | 417 88% | 13k | $375k (exactly $375,175) | 株式会社デスクワークス |
| | Forgotten Realms: The Archives - Collection One | older | $9.99 | 283 92% | 8.5k | $85k (exactly $84,815) | Westwood Associates, Strategic Simulati… (Westwood Associates, Strategic Simulations) |
 | Alpine - The Simulation Game | older | $19.99 | 34 44% | 1.0k | $20k (exactly $20,390) | HR Innoways |
 | The Chronicles of Quiver Dick | older | $2.99 | 173 93% | 5.2k | $16k (exactly $15,518) | Crankage Games |
 | 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) | |
 | Struggle Offensive | · EA older | $1.99 | 132 63% | 4.0k | $7.9k (exactly $7,880) | OXO Games |
 | SHARK! SHARK! | older | $14.99 | 14 64% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | BBG Entertainment GmbH |
 | Rascal's Escape | $29.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $5.4k (exactly $5,398) | the Good Evil GmbH | |
 | Carnival Heroes - Super party minigames | $3.99 | 39 97% | 1.2k | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) | LAN - GAMES LTD | |
 | SEX & DICE | $11.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) | SUCCUBUS ZONE | |
 | Vitalis | · EA | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | pngTriads |
 | GG-Party | · EA | $8.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $270 (exactly $270) | GoraGames |
 | Space Memory TDG | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | TDG Gaming Studio | |
 | Polterparty | · EA | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Eelsmooth |
 | The Gamble Maze | $10.00 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Innovative Potential | |
 | Silverbrook: a Text-Based RPG | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Copper Lantern Interactive |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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