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Should I ship a Sci-fi Boxing game?
Boxing + Sci-fi
Only 8 developers shipped a Sci-fi Boxing game 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, Spirit X Strike, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 8 more are announced, ×2.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $300 against a market of $630. 8 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $59 (exactly $59) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $86k (exactly $86,357) |
| Top 5% | $158k (exactly $158,218) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $10.99 |
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 40% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 21%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Boxing
- Price point
- $10.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 79% positive over 1,103 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $59. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 8 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Boxing with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Immersive SimStrong odds
- + SimulationFair
- + StrategyPoor odds
- + FightingPoor odds
- + 2D FighterPoor odds
- + Martial ArtsPoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
- + SportsPoor odds
- + ActionPoor odds
- + CombatPoor odds
- + PvPPoor odds
- + PhysicsPoor odds
Comparable games
Spirit X Strike 2025 · EA · $158k 
Thunder Ray 2023 · $121k 
Voltage High Society 2026 · $86k 
A.D. 2047 2021 · $47k 
Dance Collider 2019 · $25k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Spirit X Strike | · EA | $12.99 | 406 82% | 12k | $158k (exactly $158,218) | MAICHA STUDIO |
| | Thunder Ray | older | $14.99 | 270 71% | 8.1k | $121k (exactly $121,419) | Purple Tree S R L |
| | Voltage High Society | $19.99 | 144 92% | 4.3k | $86k (exactly $86,357) | Platonic Partnership | |
| | A.D. 2047 | older | $19.99 | 79 62% | 2.4k | $47k (exactly $47,376) | Leenzee Games |
| | Dance Collider | older | $4.99 | 169 80% | 5.1k | $25k (exactly $25,299) | emergeWorlds |
 | Sportvida CyberDash | $19.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $4.2k (exactly $4,198) | ible Sportvida | |
 | Shadow BoXR | · EA older | $9.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) | 3Pupper Studios |
 | Sucker Punch VR | older | $19.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $3.6k (exactly $3,598) | AR Glimpse, LLC |
 | Punchout: Music | · EA older | $14.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $899 (exactly $899) | Officeu Co., Ltd. |
 | Sock It | older | $4.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Maskii Productions |
 | Odania Sports Arena | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Odania GmbH | |
 | Donut Riders | · EA | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | OUTRISE studios |
 | Test Subject | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Autonomous Tree | |
 | FISTAGON | $10.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Virtual Dawn | |
 | Cyber Boxing Arena | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | JJTW Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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