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Should I ship a Card Battler Battle Royale?
Battle Royale + Card Battler
Only 6 developers shipped a Card Battler Battle Royale 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, Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 8 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 10 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $60 against a market of $1.3k. 8 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $60 (exactly $60) |
| Top 25% | $299 (exactly $299) |
| Top 5% | $68k (exactly $68,377) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 10 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Battle Royale
- effort 10 / 10 · low · 100-player servers and constant live ops
- Card Battler
- effort 3 / 10 · high · card rules plus simple encounter logic
What it takes
- Effort
- 10 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Battle Royale, Card Battler
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 9 games average 66% positive over 564 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 8 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Battle Royale with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + PuzzlePoor odds
- + Psychological HorrorPoor odds
- + Dungeon CrawlerPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + 4 Player LocalPoor odds
- + RoguelitePoor odds
Comparable games
WARCANA 2024 · $226k 
Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love 2026 · $68k 
Number One Rich 2020 · $3.4k 
Stream Battlecards 2020 · $3.0k 
CrazyParty 2022 · EA · $1.4k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | WARCANA | older | $16.99 | 443 62% | 13k | $226k (exactly $225,797) | 1000 Orks |
| | Karigurashi Ren'ai: Living on Borrowed Love | $29.99 | 76 92% | 2.3k | $68k (exactly $68,377) | ASa Project | |
| | Number One Rich | older | $5.99 | 19 36% | 570 | $3.4k (exactly $3,414) | BlackWhite |
| | Stream Battlecards | older | $9.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | Pascal Dittrich |
| | CrazyParty | · EA older | $7.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | Kentaro |
 | GOC Royale | older | $2.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | Game of Cards |
 | FJN Blackjack Cup | $4.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | FlagmanJeremy | |
 | RecNaviClub | older | $3.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | TOYOMARU INDUSTRY CO., LTD. |
 | Skully Bunnies | · EA | $1.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Chick Meow Studios |
 | City: Battle Ground | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Redduckstudio | |
 | 进化岛：Jinhuadao | $16.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 古德模型, goodmoxing | |
 | TYPE OR DIE | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | MASK Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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