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Should I ship a Space Battle Royale?
Battle Royale + Space
Only 7 developers shipped a Space 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, Wildgate, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 23 more are announced, ×12 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 10 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $120 against a market of $1.3k. 23 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $120 (exactly $120) |
| Top 25% | $52k (exactly $52,462) |
| Top 5% | $4.5M (exactly $4,527,290) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 36 |
| Announced | 23 |
| Effort | 10 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $7.00 |
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 60% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 33%, 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
- Space
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 10 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Battle Royale
- Price point
- $7.00 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 5,887 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 6 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 23 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×12 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Battle Royale with a different setting or mood, 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
Wildgate 2025 · $4.5M 
SUPER BOMBERMAN R 2 2023 · $223k 
Arkanoid - Eternal Battle 2022 · $73k 
The Wraith of the Galaxy 2023 · EA · $58k 
Dawn of Anarchy 2025 · $52k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Wildgate | $29.99 | 5,032 77% | 151k | $4.5M (exactly $4,527,290) | Moonshot Games | |
| | SUPER BOMBERMAN R 2 | older | $49.99 | 149 53% | 4.5k | $223k (exactly $223,455) | KONAMI |
| | Arkanoid - Eternal Battle | older | $9.99 | 245 66% | 7.4k | $73k (exactly $73,426) | Pastagames |
| | The Wraith of the Galaxy | · EA older | $11.99 | 161 81% | 4.8k | $58k (exactly $57,912) | Whale Rock Games |
| | Dawn of Anarchy | $13.99 | 125 84% | 3.8k | $52k (exactly $52,462) | Quacky Games | |
 | universe treasure | older | $13.99 | 91 58% | 2.7k | $38k (exactly $38,193) | モンスター研 |
 | FMTC | $7.00 | 75 78% | 2.3k | $16k (exactly $15,750) | FMTC | |
 | Burst Planet | · EA older | $19.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $2.4k (exactly $2,399) | KX Games |
 | Space Nations - Battlearena | · EA older | $13.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $1.7k (exactly $1,679) | Linked Bits |
 | CREATURES | older | $24.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $750 (exactly $750) | RaxPlay, CREATURES |
 | Dungeons Bomb | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | MARIOZY | |
 | Pool Ball Battle Royale | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Kiran M, CrazyPenguin0111 | |
 | Space Vortex | $25.00 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hosny | |
 | MineZone | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Seongdu-yeom |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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