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Should I ship a Parkour Action RPG?
Action RPG + Parkour
Only 16 developers shipped a Parkour 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, Dying Light: The Beast, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 54 more are announced, ×4.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $900, ×0.6 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360. 54 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.5 per shipper, while revenue is up 620% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $582k (exactly $581,854) |
| Top 5% | $107M (exactly $106,754,605) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 44 |
| Announced | 54 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 620% on the market, supply 200% 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
- Parkour
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Action RPG, Parkour; all of the top 25% also carry Action, Exploration, RPG
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $59.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Story Rich, 3D, Realistic
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $59.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 71,856 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 54 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.5 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
Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition 2022 · $297M 
Dying Light 2015 · $280M 
Assassin's Creed® Origins 2017 · $216M 
Dying Light: The Beast 2025 · $107M 
Assassin's Creed® Unity 2014 · $71M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition | older | $59.99 | 164,914 79% | 4.9M | $297M (exactly $296,795,726) | Techland |
| | Dying Light | older | $24.99 | 373,413 95% | 11M | $280M (exactly $279,947,726) | Techland |
| | Assassin's Creed® Origins | older | $59.99 | 119,764 85% | 3.6M | $216M (exactly $215,539,271) | Ubisoft Montreal |
| | Dying Light: The Beast | $59.99 | 59,318 87% | 1.8M | $107M (exactly $106,754,605) | Techland | |
| | Assassin's Creed® Unity | older | $29.99 | 79,116 77% | 2.4M | $71M (exactly $71,180,665) | Ubisoft |
 | Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ | older | $19.99 | 63,815 92% | 1.9M | $38M (exactly $38,269,856) | Monolith Productions |
 | Assassin's Creed® III Remastered | older | $39.99 | 14,646 63% | 439k | $18M (exactly $17,570,806) | Ubisoft Entertainment |
 | Assassin's Creed Mirage | $49.99 | 11,612 76% | 348k | $17M (exactly $17,414,516) | Ubisoft Bordeaux | |
 | Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition | older | $29.99 | 16,313 78% | 489k | $15M (exactly $14,676,806) | Gunfire Games, Vigil Games, THQ Nordic |
 | Forspoken | older | $69.99 | 5,384 64% | 162k | $11M (exactly $11,304,785) | Square Enix |
 | KYOTO XANADU -the Blooming Phantom- | $54.99 | 403 78% | 12k | $665k (exactly $664,829) | Nihon Falcom | |
 | Kristala | $39.99 | 485 71% | 15k | $582k (exactly $581,854) | Astral Clocktower Studios | |
 | ASHGARD: Infinity Mask | · EA | $9.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | ASHGARD GAMES |
 | Echobreaker | $8.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $3.2k (exactly $3,236) | Upstream Arcade | |
 | GAYA - The Mystery | $8.00 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.4k (exactly $1,440) | Dunamis | |
 | The Light of Celestia | $9.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | Rivox Games | |
 | Knights of the Apocalypse | $24.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $750 (exactly $750) | Sirius Morning Star | |
 | The King of Assassins - The Kingdom | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Faith Studio Team, Rabie Mounther Haddad |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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