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Should I ship a Character Customization Programming game?
Character Customization + Programming
Only 11 developers shipped a Character Customization Programming 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, Talented, 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, ×3.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.8k, ×2.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $750; 1 in 20 cleared $260k, ×422 the market median. Revenue is down 100% on the market; 22 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $748 (exactly $748) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) |
| Top 25% | $48k (exactly $47,952) |
| Top 5% | $265k (exactly $265,058) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 22 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 down 100% on the market, supply 75% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 17%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Character Customization
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Programming
- 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
- Character Customization, Programming
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 2,408 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $750. 22 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Character Customization with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + BikesFair
- + IdlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + GamblingFair
- + Precision PlatformerFair
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Comparable games
Mad Games Tycoon 2 2023 · $5.5M 
Software Inc. 2015 · EA · $5.2M 
Main Assembly 2021 · $602k 
Talented 2024 · $265k 
Bioweaver 2024 · $140k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Mad Games Tycoon 2 | older | $24.99 | 7,355 93% | 221k | $5.5M (exactly $5,514,044) | Eggcode |
| | Software Inc. | · EA older | $22.99 | 7,576 94% | 227k | $5.2M (exactly $5,225,167) | Coredumping |
| | Main Assembly | older | $19.99 | 1,004 83% | 30k | $602k (exactly $602,099) | Bad Yolk Games |
| | Talented | $5.99 | 1,475 91% | 44k | $265k (exactly $265,058) | TurtleFox Games | |
| | Bioweaver | $6.99 | 668 77% | 20k | $140k (exactly $140,080) | Emprom Game, Wild Kid Games | |
 | Startup Panic | older | $14.99 | 211 55% | 6.3k | $95k (exactly $94,887) | Algorocks |
 | Age Of Warbots | $9.99 | 160 83% | 4.8k | $48k (exactly $47,952) | VDimension | |
 | Nurose | · EA older | $9.99 | 90 87% | 2.7k | $27k (exactly $26,973) | Orongto |
 | Drunken Wrestlers 2 | · EA older | $3.99 | 206 77% | 6.2k | $25k (exactly $24,658) | Oleg Skutte |
 | DarkStone Restoration | · EA | $10.99 | 63 96% | 1.9k | $21k (exactly $20,771) | Paul Cuisset |
 | Dash'n'Drops | · EA | $6.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) | Le Moulin aux Bulles |
 | Cyber Academy | · EA | $11.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | JinjaGames |
 | My Little Someone | $1.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $1.1k (exactly $1,075) | Some Person Team | |
 | Widget Warriors | $4.99 | 5 0% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Vespertine Game | |
 | FYGameCompany | $7.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | Foryun | |
 | Gambit Loop | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Delirium Tremens Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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