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Should I ship a Survival Horror Battle Royale?
Battle Royale + Survival Horror
Only 10 developers shipped a Survival Horror 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, Last Remains, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×4.3 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 $5.4k against a market of $1.3k. 17 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $5.4k (exactly $5,433) |
| Top 25% | $40k (exactly $40,053) |
| Top 5% | $548k (exactly $548,126) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 38 |
| Announced | 17 |
| 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 65% on the market, supply 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, 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
- Survival Horror
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 10 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Battle Royale, Survival Horror
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 70% positive over 2,421 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 7 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 17 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Battle Royale with a different second tag, 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
Hunt: Showdown 1896 2019 · $192M 
Last Remains 2025 · EA · $548k 
GENSOU Skydrift 2019 · $404k 
Final Sentence 2026 · $328k 
Bail or Jail(OBAKEIDORO!) 2022 · $113k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Hunt: Showdown 1896 | older | $29.99 | 213,023 74% | 6.4M | $192M (exactly $191,656,793) | Crytek |
| | Last Remains | · EA | $19.99 | 914 51% | 27k | $548k (exactly $548,126) | Earn Alliance |
| | GENSOU Skydrift | older | $23.99 | 561 88% | 17k | $404k (exactly $403,752) | illuCalab |
| | Final Sentence | $9.99 | 1,095 84% | 33k | $328k (exactly $328,172) | Button Mash | |
| | Bail or Jail(OBAKEIDORO!) | older | $19.99 | 188 81% | 5.6k | $113k (exactly $112,744) | FREE STYLE, Inc., KONAMI |
 | Among Ass | older | $4.99 | 378 80% | 11k | $57k (exactly $56,587) | Volens Nolens Games |
 | NIGHT CROW | older | $15.99 | 85 68% | 2.6k | $41k (exactly $40,774) | Ge-Aivan |
 | Back：Fade | $6.99 | 191 76% | 5.7k | $40k (exactly $40,053) | MYSTERY CROWN | |
 | Borderwatch: Dark Armada | older | $9.99 | 55 83% | 1.7k | $16k (exactly $16,484) | Blackburne Games Yazılım A.Ş. |
 | Zombie sanctuary: Ash | older | $69.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $13k (exactly $12,598) | 7miao game |
 | Only Out | $4.99 | 40 95% | 1.2k | $6.0k (exactly $5,988) | Shark Studio | |
 | 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 | |
 | 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 | |
 | Roach Royale | $3.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | MOLOT | |
 | PSI Masquerade Deadly Wonderland | $10.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $330 (exactly $330) | Mururunsoft | |
 | Rescue Girl Operation: Code X | $3.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | 2024-NGame |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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