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Should I ship an LGBTQ+ Card Battler?
Card Battler + LGBTQ+
Only 18 developers shipped an LGBTQ+ Card Battler 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, Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×2.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $8.1k, ×17 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.7k; 1 in 20 cleared $310k, ×661 the market median. Revenue is up 2880% on the market; 20 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) |
|---|---|
| Median | $8.1k (exactly $8,095) |
| Top 25% | $108k (exactly $107,557) |
| Top 5% | $314k (exactly $313,891) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 43 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $12.99 |
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 2880% on the market, supply 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Card Battler
- effort 3 / 10 · high · card rules plus simple encounter logic
- LGBTQ+
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Card Battler; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Card Game, Deckbuilding, Strategy
- Price point
- $12.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Anime, Funny, 2D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $12.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 2,696 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.7k. 7 in 10 of the 14 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Card Battler with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + ArcadeFair
- + Bullet HellFair
- + GamblingFair
- + 2D FighterFair
- + ZombiesFair
- + Point & ClickFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + Traditional RoguelikeFair
- + Party GameFair
- + SolitaireLong shot
- + Asynchronous MultiplayerPoor odds
- + CRPGPoor odds
Comparable games
Resist the succubus—The end of the female Knight 2024 · $698k 
Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't 2026 · $314k 
Youtubers Life 3 2026 · $281k 
神树残响（Echoes of the Divine Tree） 2025 · $216k 
Battle Suit Aces 2025 · $208k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Resist the succubus—The end of the female Knight | older | $16.99 | 1,370 74% | 41k | $698k (exactly $698,289) | BoRoBoRoGame |
| | Cursed Words: The Word Game That Isn't | $14.99 | 698 95% | 21k | $314k (exactly $313,891) | Buried Things | |
| | Youtubers Life 3 | $19.99 | 468 50% | 14k | $281k (exactly $280,660) | UPLAY Online | |
| | 神树残响（Echoes of the Divine Tree） | $11.99 | 601 94% | 18k | $216k (exactly $216,180) | Seventeen horns | |
| | Battle Suit Aces | $19.99 | 347 90% | 10k | $208k (exactly $208,096) | Trinket Studios | |
 | Astatos | · EA older | $14.99 | 298 82% | 8.9k | $134k (exactly $134,011) | Studio Klondike Australia |
 | FUTA FUCKS FEMBOYS | $12.99 | 276 88% | 8.3k | $108k (exactly $107,557) | Horny Capybara Studio | |
 | Eternal Destiny | older | $9.99 | 225 78% | 6.8k | $67k (exactly $67,432) | Office 5656 |
 | Furry Cyberfucker | older | $6.99 | 273 69% | 8.2k | $57k (exactly $57,248) | Furry Tails |
 | Hyperspace Deck Command | $19.99 | 91 95% | 2.7k | $55k (exactly $54,573) | Sleeper Games | |
 | Throne of Monsters 怪物的王座 | $12.99 | 130 92% | 3.9k | $51k (exactly $50,661) | 雏形游戏 | |
 | Project Skyward | $19.99 | 54 68% | 1.6k | $32k (exactly $32,384) | Skyward Foundry | |
 | KreatureKind | $14.99 | 18 83% | 540 | $8.1k (exactly $8,095) | Valiant Game Studio | |
 | NOMIA | $19.99 | 13 100% | 390 | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) | Magnesium Ninja |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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