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Should I ship a Cyberpunk Battle Royale?
Battle Royale + Cyberpunk
Only 3 developers shipped a paid Cyberpunk Battle Royale in the last 2 years. Over 4 years, 9 did: the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 4 in 10 of the games here are free to play and sit outside these figures. 22 more are announced, ×22 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 10 / 10 build.
Only 0 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $900 against a market of $1.3k. 22 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $210 (exactly $210) |
|---|---|
| Median | $779 (exactly $779) |
| Top 25% | $958 (exactly $958) |
| Top 5% | $36k (exactly $35,760) |
| Developers, 4 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 22 |
| Effort | 10 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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: too few recent games to read.
Free games: 40%, 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
- Cyberpunk
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 10 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Battle Royale
- Price point
- $3.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 4 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $5.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 68% positive over 689 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $210. 22 games are announced against 0 developers who shipped in the last year, ×22 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Battle Royale with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Immersive SimFair
- + MysteryLong shot
- + LootPoor odds
- + 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
Furry Arena [18+] 2022 · $36k 
Apex Armor Swap Trainer 2023 · $1.5k 
Stealth Syndicate 2024 · $958 
TANK ZERO 2024 · $898 
Star99 2020 · $807 | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Furry Arena [18+] | older | $1.99 | 599 64% | 18k | $36k (exactly $35,760) | Octo Games |
| | Apex Armor Swap Trainer | older | $0.99 | 52 94% | 1.6k | $1.5k (exactly $1,544) | Soulwarmers Games |
| | Stealth Syndicate | $3.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $958 (exactly $958) | Vincent Lopes-Vicente | |
| | TANK ZERO | $5.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $898 (exactly $898) | Emergency Exit | |
| | Star99 | older | $2.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $807 (exactly $807) | Schine GmbH |
 | EX_Holics.exe | older | $12.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $779 (exactly $779) | Gushala |
 | War Link - 2111 AD | older | $1.99 | 11 72% | 330 | $657 (exactly $657) | Saturn VR, NipsApp Game Studios |
 | Dungeonite | older | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Pants Robot LLC |
 | Royale Battle: Warzone | older | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | InScienceGames, Matt Scala |
 | The Great War 3032 | older | $5.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Tom Schmitz-Audek |
 | Battle | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | DIG Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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