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Should I ship a Puzzle Battle Royale?
Battle Royale + Puzzle
Only 14 developers shipped a Puzzle 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, SUPER BOMBERMAN COLLECTION, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 10 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.2k, ×2.4 the market's $1.3k for a 10 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $240; 1 in 20 cleared $170k, ×131 the market median. Revenue is up 2055% on the market; 21 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.2k (exactly $3,224) |
| Top 25% | $5.4k (exactly $5,433) |
| Top 5% | $176k (exactly $176,312) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 53 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 10 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 2055% on the market, supply 80% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, 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
- Puzzle
- effort 2 / 10 · high · discrete rules, levels are data
What it takes
- Effort
- 10 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Battle Royale, Puzzle
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 1,055 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 9 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Battle Royale with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
DEPLOYMENT 2018 · $428k 
SUPER BOMBERMAN COLLECTION 2026 · $176k 
The Joker's Game 2025 · $175k 
Multiwinia 2008 · $147k 
Taboos: Cracks 2019 · $96k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | DEPLOYMENT | older | $14.99 | 951 85% | 29k | $428k (exactly $427,665) | Whale Rock Games |
| | SUPER BOMBERMAN COLLECTION | $19.99 | 294 87% | 8.8k | $176k (exactly $176,312) | RED ART GAMES | |
| | The Joker's Game | $11.99 | 486 82% | 15k | $175k (exactly $174,814) | All In Game Co., Limited | |
| | Multiwinia | older | $11.99 | 409 82% | 12k | $147k (exactly $147,117) | Introversion Software |
| | Taboos: Cracks | older | $1.99 | 1,609 80% | 48k | $96k (exactly $96,057) | DSGame |
 | NIGHT CROW | older | $15.99 | 85 68% | 2.6k | $41k (exactly $40,774) | Ge-Aivan |
 | 烧尾宴 | $8.99 | 52 75% | 1.6k | $14k (exactly $14,024) | 有点正经 | |
 | I Got Trapped in the Succubus's Dream! | older | $4.99 | 69 55% | 2.1k | $10k (exactly $10,329) | karaage catapult |
 | Five Nights: No Escape | older | $9.99 | 33 66% | 990 | $9.9k (exactly $9,890) | Fun Cradle |
 | Army To Army | older | $24.99 | 9 55% | 270 | $6.7k (exactly $6,747) | Piece Of Voxel |
 | Idiom Royale | $1.99 | 91 63% | 2.7k | $5.4k (exactly $5,433) | NyxWorks | |
 | 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 | |
 | Summoner's Automata | $9.99 | 14 85% | 420 | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) | Gamesforgames | |
 | 鬼灵的冒险GUILING's Adventure | $1.99 | 54 94% | 1.6k | $3.2k (exactly $3,224) | 硅晶石工作室Sicrystal Studio | |
 | SurrounDead Poly Construction | $15.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $480 (exactly $480) | LivingEveryday | |
 | Doomvile Brainrot | $0.99 | 15 66% | 450 | $446 (exactly $446) | Gamesforgames |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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