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Should I ship a Collectathon Battle Royale?
Battle Royale + Collectathon
Only 7 developers shipped a Collectathon 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, Lunars, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 10 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $180 in the last 2 years and $240 over 4, against a market of $1.3k for a 10 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 10 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $179 (exactly $179) |
| Top 25% | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 5% | $18k (exactly $17,988) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 10 |
| 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 150% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 21%, 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
- Collectathon
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 10 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Battle Royale, Collectathon
- 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 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 96% positive over 1,047 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. 10 games are announced against 5 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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- + SportsPoor odds
- + Hero ShooterPoor odds
- + PuzzlePoor odds
- + Psychological HorrorPoor odds
- + Dungeon CrawlerPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + 4 Player LocalPoor odds
- + RoguelitePoor odds
Comparable games
Kukoro: Stream chat games 2024 · $137k 
Lunars 2026 · EA · $18k 
Anzeigen Simulator 2024 · EA · $8.8k 
Battle Tops 2021 · $2.3k 
BattleClaws 2024 · EA · $898 | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Kukoro: Stream chat games | older | $4.99 | 913 97% | 27k | $137k (exactly $136,676) | HeyNau |
| | Lunars | · EA | $14.99 | 40 97% | 1.2k | $18k (exactly $17,988) | Anubis Arts |
| | Anzeigen Simulator | · EA older | $4.99 | 59 84% | 1.8k | $8.8k (exactly $8,832) | SalsaShark Studios |
| | Battle Tops | older | $3.99 | 19 89% | 570 | $2.3k (exactly $2,274) | Dylan |
| | BattleClaws | · EA older | $4.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | DameGev, EveryPlanet, Gronkiee, endoran |
 | Call of Dusk | older | $14.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Luiz Otávio da Silva |
 | SHARKS | · EA | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Ezone PTY LTD |
 | BIG BALLS | · EA | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | BIG BALL |
 | Panic of the Apes | · EA | $1.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | Adam Weaver |
 | Arcane Bastion | older | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Bastion Studios |
 | 进化岛：Jinhuadao | $16.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 古德模型, goodmoxing | |
 | SHADE WALKERS | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Cross Novaris Studio | |
 | Endless Robot dash | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 0cd studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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