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Should I ship a Beat 'em up Survival Horror?
Survival Horror + Beat 'em up
Only 14 developers shipped a Beat 'em up Survival Horror 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, Kong: Survivor Instinct, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300 in the last 2 years and $420 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 15 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $239 (exactly $239) |
|---|---|
| Median | $299 (exactly $299) |
| Top 25% | $7.0k (exactly $7,012) |
| Top 5% | $253k (exactly $253,399) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 100% 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.
- Survival Horror
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Beat 'em up
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Survival Horror, Beat 'em up; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Action-Adventure, Action Roguelike
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Atmospheric, Realistic
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 79% positive over 1,336 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. 7 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Survival Horror with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVFair
- + DrivingFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + SnowFair
- + SportsFair
- + Outbreak SimFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + Boomer ShooterFair
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Spectacle fighterPoor odds
Comparable games
Onee Chanbara ORIGIN 2020 · $2.2M 
DEAD RISING® 2016 · $1.7M 
Kong: Survivor Instinct 2024 · $253k 
The Bleakest Keep 2025 · $215k 
LUST Eternal 🔞 2025 · $32k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Onee Chanbara ORIGIN | older | $59.99 | 1,217 75% | 37k | $2.2M (exactly $2,190,235) | Tamsoft |
| | DEAD RISING® | older | $9.99 | 5,751 89% | 173k | $1.7M (exactly $1,723,575) | Capcom |
| | Kong: Survivor Instinct | $24.99 | 338 71% | 10k | $253k (exactly $253,399) | 7Levels | |
| | The Bleakest Keep | $9.99 | 719 90% | 22k | $215k (exactly $215,484) | Cache of Bones | |
| | LUST Eternal 🔞 | $4.99 | 212 55% | 6.4k | $32k (exactly $31,736) | Octo Games | |
 | My Night Job | older | $9.99 | 58 82% | 1.7k | $17k (exactly $17,383) | Webcore Games |
 | Extra Lives | older | $4.99 | 85 89% | 2.6k | $13k (exactly $12,724) | MDickie |
 | Throw Anything | older | $16.99 | 21 85% | 630 | $11k (exactly $10,704) | Visual Light |
 | Lost in Hell | older | $20.00 | 17 52% | 510 | $10k (exactly $10,200) | Luan Prates de Souza |
 | Apocalypse Survivors | $8.99 | 26 57% | 780 | $7.0k (exactly $7,012) | The Last One | |
 | Nekurogahara: Ronin Psyche | $39.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $4.8k (exactly $4,799) | n1lknarf | |
 | Slasher | $4.99 | 27 74% | 810 | $4.0k (exactly $4,042) | Horrid Vision LLC | |
 | Unlimited Ammo Survivor | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Black Star Cloud | |
 | Mushi Mansion | $2.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | YamiToast | |
 | Dark 4799 | $7.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | Nikola Krizic | |
 | Fast Mission | $1.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $239 (exactly $239) | yonorof |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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