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Should I ship a Crafting Beat 'em up?
Crafting + Beat 'em up
Only 11 developers shipped a Crafting Beat 'em up 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, Zad Archery, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×4.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $900 against a market of $630. 19 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $899 (exactly $899) |
| Top 25% | $45k (exactly $44,795) |
| Top 5% | $168k (exactly $168,389) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 15440% on the market, supply 45% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Crafting
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Beat 'em up
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Crafting, Beat 'em up
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 74% positive over 1,287 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin 2020 · $4.5M 
Zad Archery 2026 · $168k 
Abyss Kitchen 2026 · $73k 
Gimbal 2013 · $58k 
Warspace 2 2025 · $45k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin | older | $29.99 | 5,004 92% | 150k | $4.5M (exactly $4,502,099) | Edelweiss |
| | Zad Archery | $6.99 | 803 73% | 24k | $168k (exactly $168,389) | Samharia Studios | |
| | Abyss Kitchen | $11.99 | 202 89% | 6.1k | $73k (exactly $72,659) | Pico Games | |
| | Gimbal | older | $14.99 | 130 79% | 3.9k | $58k (exactly $58,461) | 8888888 LABS |
| | Warspace 2 | $17.99 | 83 59% | 2.5k | $45k (exactly $44,795) | Magic Game Art | |
 | Otokonoko Fishing | older | $11.99 | 72 90% | 2.2k | $26k (exactly $25,898) | mumimumi, veryOK |
 | Desktop Nard: Dice Idle | $4.99 | 116 67% | 3.5k | $17k (exactly $17,365) | Samharia Studios | |
 | Deadtime Defenders | $9.99 | 48 79% | 1.4k | $14k (exactly $14,386) | Arcane Embers | |
 | Extra Lives | older | $4.99 | 85 89% | 2.6k | $13k (exactly $12,724) | MDickie |
 | Apocalypse Survivors | $8.99 | 26 57% | 780 | $7.0k (exactly $7,012) | The Last One | |
 | DinoGORE | $9.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | David Mills | |
 | Morrigan's Isle | · EA | $6.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $839 (exactly $839) | Null Reference Games |
 | Donut Riders | · EA | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | OUTRISE studios |
 | Night of the Witch's Invasion | $0.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | AA Mini Games Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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