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Should I ship a Cyberpunk Fighting game?
Fighting + Cyberpunk
Only 5 developers shipped a Cyberpunk Fighting 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, Cyberpunk SFX, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced, ×3.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $9.6k, ×6.4 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $6.3k; 1 in 20 cleared $54k, ×37 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 18 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $6.3k (exactly $6,300) |
|---|---|
| Median | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) |
| Top 25% | $13k (exactly $13,486) |
| Top 5% | $55k (exactly $54,845) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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: too few recent games to read.
Free games: 5%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Fighting
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $10.00.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 76,952 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $6.3k. 18 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Fighting with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SandboxStrong odds
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + Souls-likePoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Local Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
- + Spectacle fighterPoor odds
Comparable games
Ghostrunner 2020 · $42M 
Remember Me 2013 · $10M 
Ghostrunner 2 2023 · $9.6M 
Bleeding Edge 2020 · $1.3M 
Zup! F 2019 · $463k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ghostrunner | older | $29.99 | 46,818 91% | 1.4M | $42M (exactly $42,122,155) | One More Level, 3D Realms, Slipgate Iro… (One More Level, 3D Realms, Slipgate Ironworks™, All in! Games) |
| | Remember Me | older | $29.99 | 11,128 83% | 334k | $10M (exactly $10,011,862) | DONTNOD Entertainment |
| | Ghostrunner 2 | older | $39.99 | 7,981 80% | 239k | $9.6M (exactly $9,574,806) | One More Level |
| | Bleeding Edge | older | $29.99 | 1,411 66% | 42k | $1.3M (exactly $1,269,477) | Ninja Theory |
| | Zup! F | older | $1.99 | 7,749 96% | 232k | $463k (exactly $462,615) | Quiet River |
 | Hyper Jam | older | $12.99 | 431 93% | 13k | $168k (exactly $167,961) | Bit Dragon |
 | Omikron: The Nomad Soul | older | $9.99 | 420 68% | 13k | $126k (exactly $125,874) | Quantic Dream |
 | Chicken Assassin: Reloaded | older | $4.99 | 715 94% | 21k | $107k (exactly $107,036) | OneShark |
 | Punch Planet - Early Access | · EA older | $19.99 | 171 91% | 5.1k | $103k (exactly $102,549) | Sector-K Games |
 | Die by the Blade | older | $19.99 | 128 57% | 3.8k | $77k (exactly $76,762) | Grindstone, Triple Hill Interactive, To… (Grindstone, Triple Hill Interactive, Toko Midori Games) |
 | Cyberpunk SFX | $9.99 | 183 83% | 5.5k | $55k (exactly $54,845) | Whale Rock Games | |
 | RHYTHMKILL | $9.99 | 45 82% | 1.4k | $13k (exactly $13,486) | GETTAKE | |
 | RAGER | $19.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) | Insane Prey | |
 | Heatwave | $10.00 | 21 95% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,300) | Monochromesoft | |
 | Virus X | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | IcekingPanda |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
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