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Should I ship a Procedural Generation Battle Royale?
Battle Royale + Procedural Generation
Only 7 developers shipped a Procedural Generation 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, Adventurer's Gambit: Dungeons of Fortune, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
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 $300 against a market of $1.3k. 16 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $269 (exactly $269) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 5% | $4.3k (exactly $4,287) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 10 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 65% on the market, supply 35% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 27%, 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
- Procedural Generation
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 10 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Battle Royale, Procedural Generation
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $11.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 546 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $270. 16 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Battle Royale with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + 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
Soldat 2 2020 · EA · $93k 
Food Chain 2020 · EA · $17k 
Waves of the Atlantide 2019 · EA · $5.4k 
CD-RUN 2019 · $4.5k 
Adventurer's Gambit: Dungeons of Fortune 2026 · $4.3k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Soldat 2 | · EA older | $7.99 | 386 85% | 12k | $93k (exactly $92,524) | Transhuman Design |
| | Food Chain | · EA older | $7.99 | 69 59% | 2.1k | $17k (exactly $16,539) | Kozhakov |
| | Waves of the Atlantide | · EA older | $11.99 | 15 86% | 450 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Metaphore Games SAS |
| | CD-RUN | older | $9.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | Quack Quack Games |
| | Adventurer's Gambit: Dungeons of Fortune | $12.99 | 11 81% | 330 | $4.3k (exactly $4,287) | Astana Games | |
 | Number One Rich | older | $5.99 | 19 36% | 570 | $3.4k (exactly $3,414) | BlackWhite |
 | Friendship Club | · EA older | $11.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $2.9k (exactly $2,878) | Force Of Habit, Clockwork Cuckoo |
 | AI Battle Royale Generator | older | $3.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $1.3k (exactly $1,317) | Kilz Knight |
 | CHAT CHAMPIONS | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Fabio Biancarelli, FLEX$ Studios | |
 | PolyRoyale | older | $1.99 | 8 50% | 240 | $478 (exactly $478) | Witte Studio |
 | PSI Masquerade Deadly Wonderland | $10.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $330 (exactly $330) | Mururunsoft | |
 | Void Breach | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | fp32.ai LLC | |
 | Bald Guys | · EA | $2.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | Kazooist LLC |
 | Bouncy Escape | $5.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Daniel Sitkiewicz | |
 | Pirate's Booty | $7.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Awesome Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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