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Should I ship a Cyberpunk Incremental game?
Incremental + Cyberpunk
Of 45 developers who shipped a Cyberpunk Incremental game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 62 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.2k, ×1.9 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $240. Revenue is down 15% on the market; 62 games are announced against 34 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $238 (exactly $238) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,200) |
| Top 25% | $3.0k (exactly $2,992) |
| Top 5% | $44k (exactly $43,827) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 45 |
| Released games | 90 |
| Announced | 62 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 15% on the market, supply 210% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Incremental
- effort 1 / 10 · high · formulas and upgrade tables
- Cyberpunk
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Incremental; 3 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, Arcade, Automation
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $6.99 or above
- Art
- 3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Linear, Pixel Graphics
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $6.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 1,831 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $240. All of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 62 games are announced against 34 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Incremental with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVStrong odds
- + OtomeStrong odds
- + Martial ArtsFair
- + FarmingFair
- + Dynamic NarrationFair
- + MiningFair
- + Souls-likeFair
- + Arena ShooterFair
- + Dating SimFair
- + UndergroundFair
- + LootFair
- + SupernaturalFair
Comparable games
Berserk B.I.T.S 2025 · $140k 
Chicken Assassin: Reloaded 2016 · $107k 
FEED THE AI 2026 · $100k 
OnlyFap Simulator 4 💦 2022 · $83k 
OnlyFap Simulator 2 💦 2022 · $77k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Berserk B.I.T.S | $6.99 | 667 81% | 20k | $140k (exactly $139,870) | BerserkBoy Games | |
| | Chicken Assassin: Reloaded | older | $4.99 | 715 94% | 21k | $107k (exactly $107,036) | OneShark |
| | FEED THE AI | $5.99 | 557 90% | 17k | $100k (exactly $100,093) | Weird Kid Games | |
| | OnlyFap Simulator 4 💦 | older | $6.99 | 398 59% | 12k | $83k (exactly $83,461) | BanzaiProject |
| | OnlyFap Simulator 2 💦 | older | $6.99 | 367 60% | 11k | $77k (exactly $76,960) | BanzaiProject |
 | One Way: The Elevator | older | $3.99 | 441 94% | 13k | $53k (exactly $52,788) | Cotton Game |
 | PROFITS 2167: Planetary Resource Optimization & Freight Infrastructure Technician Simulator | · EA | $6.99 | 209 98% | 6.3k | $44k (exactly $43,827) | Simple Software Solutions |
 | Andromeda Six | · EA | $14.99 | 95 96% | 2.9k | $43k (exactly $42,722) | Wanderlust Games |
 | Only Furry 18+ | older | $6.99 | 194 48% | 5.8k | $41k (exactly $40,682) | BanzaiProject |
 | Sex Universe [18+] | older | $9.99 | 131 65% | 3.9k | $39k (exactly $39,261) | Octo Games |
 | UNHUMAN | $3.99 | 161 73% | 4.8k | $19k (exactly $19,272) | Kinda Lowkey Games | |
 | Time Guard - The Red Menace | $11.99 | 40 97% | 1.2k | $14k (exactly $14,388) | Zima software | |
 | Saku the Covert Agent | $6.99 | 37 83% | 1.1k | $7.8k (exactly $7,759) | Forward, 78Games | |
 | Just One More Link | $6.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $3.8k (exactly $3,775) | Blagine | |
 | Scrap Snap | $4.99 | 25 80% | 750 | $3.7k (exactly $3,742) | BinkyGames | |
 | Ehko Island | $4.99 | 22 72% | 660 | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) | CafeGlow |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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