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Specimen · observed

Should I ship a Character Customization Real-Time game?

Character Customization + Real-Time

Only 7 developers shipped a Character Customization Real-Time 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, Sin and Love, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 6 more are announced.

Verdict: strong odds, for a 6 / 10 build.

The middle developer here made $2.0k, ×3.2 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 7 in 10 cleared $1.7k. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 6 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×1.2 per shipper.

Deciding numbers: median 3.2 times the market baseline, revenue too few recent games to read momentum, 6 announced, ×1.2 per developer who shipped in the last year.
Nobody has said they are building this yet.
Character Customization + Real-Time
Fig. 1 · this niche among 16,100
Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr n = 7

not enough cohorts to draw

Outcomes for Character Customization + Real-Time: Plate 1 · outcomes, 2 yr, n = 7
Bottom 30% $1.8k (exactly $1,796)
Median $2.0k (exactly $2,035)
Top 25% $32k (exactly $32,384)
Top 5% $104k (exactly $104,330)
Developers, 2 yr 7
Released games 28
Announced 6
Effort 6 / 10
AI-buildability Medium
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 150% more developers than the period before.

Free games: 4%, excluded from money figures.

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Plate 2 · systems and tooling

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
Real-Time
effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band

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Plate 3 · the cost side

What it takes

Effort
6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
Systems
Character Customization, Real-Time
Price point
$12.99 typical
Plate 4 · demand

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 $12.99.

The top 10 games average 87% positive over 26,087 reviews.

Plate 5 · the loss side

What kills games here

Developer outcomes in the last 2 years by share: 3 in 10 under $1.8k, median $2.0k, 1 in 4 over $32k, 1 in 20 over $100k.

3 in 10 developers made under $1.8k. 6 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.

Plate 6 · same mechanic, other settings

Adjacent niches

Character Customization with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.

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  3. + TransportationFair19 devs · median $7.2k · 24 announced
  4. + MinigamesFair27 devs · median $5.7k · 34 announced
  5. + DwarvesFair7 devs · median $3.2k · 13 announced
  6. + BikesFair11 devs · median $1.5k · 10 announced
  7. + IdlerFair210 devs · median $1.2k · 286 announced
  8. + IncrementalFair146 devs · median $1.2k · 190 announced
  9. + GamblingFair30 devs · median $836 · 32 announced
  10. + Precision PlatformerFair103 devs · median $748 · 116 announced
  11. + TypingFair27 devs · median $539 · 38 announced
  12. + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds34 devs · median $116k · 60 announced

All 250 pairs on the Character Customization page

Plate 7 · comparable specimens, by est. revenue

Comparable games

She Will Punish Them 2020 · EA · $8.2M Legend of Grimrock 2012 · $2.2M Vaporum 2017 · $599k Impossible Creatures Steam Edition 2015 · $477k Drox Operative 2 2021 · $165k
Capsule Game Released Price Reviews Est. copies Est. revenue Developer
She Will Punish Them · EA older $15.99 17,164 86% 515k $8.2M (exactly $8,233,571) L2 Games
Legend of Grimrock older $14.99 4,844 93% 145k $2.2M (exactly $2,178,347) Almost Human Games
Vaporum older $19.99 998 84% 30k $599k (exactly $598,501) Fatbot Games, s. r. o.
Impossible Creatures Steam Edition older $9.99 1,590 95% 48k $477k (exactly $476,523) Relic Entertainment, THQ Nordic
Drox Operative 2 older $19.99 275 89% 8.3k $165k (exactly $164,918) Soldak Entertainment
Vaporum: Lockdown older $17.99 292 83% 8.8k $158k (exactly $157,592) Fatbot Games, s. r. o.
Zombasite older $19.99 194 76% 5.8k $116k (exactly $116,342) Soldak Entertainment
Din's Legacy older $19.99 185 77% 5.6k $111k (exactly $110,944) Soldak Entertainment
Sin and Love $14.99 232 65% 7.0k $104k (exactly $104,330) XingCaiStudio
Band of Defenders older $9.99 313 48% 9.4k $94k (exactly $93,806) Alda Games
WARSHIFT 2 $19.99 54 70% 1.6k $32k (exactly $32,384) Cyril Megem
Boxing Simulator $7.99 79 79% 2.4k $19k (exactly $18,936) Inogames
Millennium Conflict $3.99 17 100% 510 $2.0k (exactly $2,035) Badim
Marble Quest · EA $4.99 12 100% 360 $1.8k (exactly $1,796) Wolf Developer, ReelablePenny14
RAIDING PARTY · EA $14.99 3 100% 90 $1.3k (exactly $1,349) Skull Splitter Studios
BaseStar $12.99 0 0% 0 $0 (exactly $0) DeKat

Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.