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Should I ship a Werewolf Character Customization game?
Character Customization + Werewolves
Only 8 developers shipped a Werewolf Character Customization 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, Project Werewulf, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced, ×2.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $21k against a market of $630. 11 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $7.2k (exactly $7,196) |
|---|---|
| Median | $21k (exactly $21,136) |
| Top 25% | $566k (exactly $565,911) |
| Top 5% | $700k (exactly $699,967) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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 140% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 32%, 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
- Werewolves
- 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
- Price point
- $14.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 1,717 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $7.2k. 7 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Character Customization with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Real-TimeStrong odds
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- + MinigamesFair
- + DwarvesFair
- + BikesFair
- + IdlerFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + GamblingFair
- + Precision PlatformerFair
- + TypingFair
Comparable games
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord 2024 · $1.3M 
Project Werewulf 2025 · $700k 
Anthro Heat 2025 · $566k 
GIBZ 2017 · $237k 
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names 2024 · $140k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord | older | $34.99 | 1,209 77% | 36k | $1.3M (exactly $1,269,087) | Digital Eclipse |
| | Project Werewulf | $29.99 | 778 83% | 23k | $700k (exactly $699,967) | FTRGameStudio | |
| | Anthro Heat | $29.99 | 629 92% | 19k | $566k (exactly $565,911) | Blue Lizard Studios | |
| | GIBZ | older | $5.99 | 1,321 88% | 40k | $237k (exactly $237,384) | Torrunt |
| | Werewolf: The Apocalypse — The Book of Hungry Names | older | $19.99 | 234 92% | 7.0k | $140k (exactly $140,330) | Choice of Games |
 | Hunter: The Reckoning — The Beast of Glenkildove | $11.99 | 108 91% | 3.2k | $39k (exactly $38,848) | Choice of Games | |
 | Hunter: The Reckoning — A Time of Monsters | $14.99 | 63 80% | 1.9k | $28k (exactly $28,331) | Choice of Games | |
 | Toward Dawn | $14.99 | 47 100% | 1.4k | $21k (exactly $21,136) | Devi Serene | |
 | The Dark World | · EA older | $19.99 | 33 54% | 990 | $20k (exactly $19,790) | Digital Gods |
 | Trust No Bunny | older | $5.99 | 109 93% | 3.3k | $20k (exactly $19,587) | Friendly Pixel, Inc. |
 | Stone 4 Souls | $9.99 | 32 78% | 960 | $9.6k (exactly $9,590) | Adeilson S Vieira | |
 | Werewolves 3: Evolution's End | $8.99 | 31 96% | 930 | $8.4k (exactly $8,361) | Choice of Games | |
 | Dolven | $19.99 | 12 75% | 360 | $7.2k (exactly $7,196) | Covyne Entertainment, The Kids From Yes… (Covyne Entertainment, The Kids From Yesterday) | |
 | Drealegy | $10.00 | 14 64% | 420 | $4.2k (exactly $4,200) | ArcWillow | |
 | Bedrooms on the Moon | $5.00 | 3 100% | 90 | $450 (exactly $450) | Cowardlion |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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