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Should I ship a Zombie Battle Royale?
Battle Royale + Zombies
Only 16 developers shipped a Zombie 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.. 22 more are announced, ×4.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 10 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $89 in the last 2 years and $180 over 4, against a market of $1.3k for a 10 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 22 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $89 (exactly $89) |
| Top 25% | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 5% | $548k (exactly $548,126) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 68 |
| Announced | 22 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 55% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 31%, 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
- Zombies
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 10 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Battle Royale; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Adventure, RPG
- Price point
- $3.99 typical · top 25% priced $5.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Realistic
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $5.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 55% positive over 1,022 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 15 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 22 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Battle Royale with a different setting or mood, 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 
Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 2023 · $78M 
Last Remains 2025 · EA · $548k 
Passed Out 2023 · EA · $57k 
Borderwatch: Dark Armada 2024 · $16k | 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 |
| | Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® | older | $59.99 | 43,229 79% | 1.3M | $78M (exactly $77,799,231) | Infinity Ward, Beenox, High Moon Studio… (Infinity Ward, Beenox, High Moon Studios, Raven Software) |
| | Last Remains | · EA | $19.99 | 914 51% | 27k | $548k (exactly $548,126) | Earn Alliance |
| | Passed Out | · EA older | $9.99 | 189 71% | 5.7k | $57k (exactly $56,643) | Tacty Studio |
| | 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 |
 | Story of White Stone State | older | $5.99 | 47 23% | 1.4k | $8.4k (exactly $8,446) | DRILL Games |
 | Masked Forces 3 | older | $4.99 | 48 62% | 1.4k | $7.2k (exactly $7,186) | FreezeNova |
 | Only Out | $4.99 | 40 95% | 1.2k | $6.0k (exactly $5,988) | Shark Studio | |
 | 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 | |
 | SHARKS | · EA | $5.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Ezone PTY LTD |
 | 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 | |
 | Dungeons Bomb | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | MARIOZY | |
 | Phantom Break | $0.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | AA Mini Games Studio | |
 | DudeGo | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | FussyCraft | |
 | zombie tide incoming Rising | $0.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | AA Mini Games Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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