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Should I ship a Dark-Fantasy Archery game?
Archery + Dark Fantasy
Only 9 developers shipped a Dark-Fantasy Archery game 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, Grimlord, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 33 more are announced, ×11 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $810 against a market of $630. 33 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $809 (exactly $809) |
| Top 25% | $15k (exactly $14,840) |
| Top 5% | $834k (exactly $834,022) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 33 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 up 1335% on the market, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Archery
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Dark Fantasy
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Archery
- Price point
- $8.99 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 4,472 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 7 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 33 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×11 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Archery with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Top-Down ShooterFair
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
- + PlatformerPoor odds
- + HuntingPoor odds
- + NaturePoor odds
- + Action RPGPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + RoguelikePoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
Comparable games
BLACKTAIL 2022 · $1.8M 
Grimlord 2024 · $834k 
Shady Knight 2024 · $539k 
Epic Fantasy Battle Simulator 2021 · EA · $128k 
Testament: The Order of High Human 2023 · $50k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | BLACKTAIL | older | $29.99 | 1,968 83% | 59k | $1.8M (exactly $1,770,610) | THE PARASIGHT |
| | Grimlord | $29.99 | 927 78% | 28k | $834k (exactly $834,022) | Metalcat Interactive Co.,Ltd | |
| | Shady Knight | $19.99 | 898 93% | 27k | $539k (exactly $538,531) | Alexey 'cptnsigh' | |
| | Epic Fantasy Battle Simulator | · EA older | $9.99 | 426 84% | 13k | $128k (exactly $127,672) | Mutiny Software |
| | Testament: The Order of High Human | older | $19.99 | 84 42% | 2.5k | $50k (exactly $50,375) | Fairyship Games |
 | Caesar's Revenge | older | $13.50 | 82 85% | 2.5k | $33k (exactly $33,210) | Pixel Barons |
 | Mythrealm | · EA | $14.99 | 33 87% | 990 | $15k (exactly $14,840) | Delta Video Games |
 | Tales of Sintra: The Dark Vortex | older | $14.99 | 23 73% | 690 | $10k (exactly $10,343) | Ippo Games |
 | FERD | · EA older | $19.99 | 13 69% | 390 | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) | AYCE |
 | Journey of the Garden Rose | $11.99 | 18 77% | 540 | $6.5k (exactly $6,475) | Renegade Sector Games | |
 | Arrow Dungeon | $8.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | ParkDol | |
 | Imprecision | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Morgan Houston, MM's Gaming Community L… (Morgan Houston, MM's Gaming Community LLC) | |
 | Quiver and Die | $0.99 | 4 25% | 120 | $119 (exactly $119) | Raphael Robatto | |
 | Mystic Origins | $7.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Matthew Lalande | |
 | Invisible Archery | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Darksody |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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