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Should I ship a God Game Action RPG?
Action RPG + God Game
Only 9 developers shipped a God Game Action 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, JIANGHU CHRONICLES, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $120 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 20 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $120 (exactly $120) |
| Top 25% | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 5% | $1.1M (exactly $1,104,226) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Action RPG
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- God Game
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Action RPG, God Game
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 4,469 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Action RPG with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + NavalFair
- + Local Co-OpFair
- + WesternFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + Walking SimulatorLong shot
- + WuxiaPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + Bullet HeavenPoor odds
Comparable games
JIANGHU CHRONICLES 2025 · $1.1M 
Dungeon Keeper™ 2 2024 · $188k 
Dungeon Keeper Gold™ 2024 · $88k 
HAINYA WORLD 2023 · EA · $32k 
Jesus Christ Simulator 2024 · EA · $11k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | JIANGHU CHRONICLES | $17.99 | 2,046 70% | 61k | $1.1M (exactly $1,104,226) | 一品阁 | |
| | Dungeon Keeper™ 2 | older | $4.99 | 1,253 92% | 38k | $188k (exactly $187,574) | Bullfrog Productions |
| | Dungeon Keeper Gold™ | older | $4.99 | 591 92% | 18k | $88k (exactly $88,473) | Bullfrog Productions |
| | HAINYA WORLD | · EA older | $14.99 | 72 80% | 2.2k | $32k (exactly $32,378) | NETWORKGO |
| | Jesus Christ Simulator | · EA older | $1.99 | 184 88% | 5.5k | $11k (exactly $10,985) | Luke Gayson |
 | Soulbound Roguelike | $9.99 | 34 82% | 1.0k | $10k (exactly $10,190) | DuDu Games | |
 | Meddl Dash | older | $0.99 | 218 98% | 6.5k | $6.5k (exactly $6,475) | Rainer Zufall |
 | DEATH REALM | · EA older | $12.99 | 14 28% | 420 | $5.5k (exactly $5,456) | PEPOLA INDIA Pvt. Ltd. |
 | Evil Superhero VR - Superhero Simulator | older | $4.99 | 32 53% | 960 | $4.8k (exactly $4,790) | Anark Studios |
 | Orb of Aeternum | older | $4.99 | 25 84% | 750 | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) | Johan Peitz, Vav |
 | Harvester Arno | $3.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | LAL | |
 | Eternal Survival | $1.43 | 7 85% | 210 | $300 (exactly $300) | Crazy Circuit Games Studio | |
 | Crown Chained | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | MazeGame | |
 | Interpret | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 臻新 | |
 | Significant | $34.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Significant | |
 | The Light and the Shadow | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | EnrolaDev | |
 | Enlil: Rise Of the End | · EA | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | HAPPYTECH |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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