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Should I ship a Mystery Battle Royale?
Battle Royale + Mystery
Only 12 developers shipped a Mystery 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, Evil School, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced.
Verdict: long shot, for a 10 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360, ×0.3 the market's $1.3k for a 10 / 10 build, but 1 in 20 cleared $250k, ×188 the market median. Revenue is up 3270% on the market; 9 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $40k (exactly $40,053) |
| Top 5% | $254k (exactly $253,603) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 9 |
| 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: revenue up 3270% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 28%, 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
- Mystery
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 10 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Battle Royale
- Price point
- $3.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 87% positive over 1,792 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 9 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Battle Royale with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Immersive SimFair
- + 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
- + Combat RacingPoor odds
Comparable games
Fatal Twelve 2018 · $567k 
Evil School 2026 · $254k 
The Joker's Game 2025 · $175k 
Back：Fade 2025 · $40k 
Five Nights: No Escape 2023 · $9.9k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Fatal Twelve | older | $19.99 | 946 92% | 28k | $567k (exactly $567,316) | LYCORIS |
| | Evil School | $7.99 | 1,058 92% | 32k | $254k (exactly $253,603) | CineGame Interactive | |
| | The Joker's Game | $11.99 | 486 82% | 15k | $175k (exactly $174,814) | All In Game Co., Limited | |
| | Back：Fade | $6.99 | 191 76% | 5.7k | $40k (exactly $40,053) | MYSTERY CROWN | |
| | Five Nights: No Escape | older | $9.99 | 33 66% | 990 | $9.9k (exactly $9,890) | Fun Cradle |
 | A Summer with the Shiba Inu | older | $8.99 | 30 96% | 900 | $8.1k (exactly $8,091) | Quill Game Studios |
 | Final Word Royale | $4.99 | 30 60% | 900 | $4.5k (exactly $4,491) | NyxWorks | |
 | CipherMind | $7.99 | 18 77% | 540 | $4.3k (exactly $4,315) | Pigeon Games | |
 | ARTISAN | older | $9.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) | STARRYWARE, The Order Of The Frame |
 | Escape from the Goblin Lair | older | $4.99 | 10 30% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | zzzgame |
 | The Night of Escape | $3.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | LiTang | |
 | Rescue Girl Operation: Code X | $3.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | 2024-NGame | |
 | Phantom Break | $0.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | AA Mini Games Studio | |
 | Murder&Spies | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | navlikesbunnies | |
 | Number Wars | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Enaayah Software Development and Servic… (Enaayah Software Development and Services Private Limited) |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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