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Should I ship a Cyberpunk Party-Based RPG?
Party-Based RPG + Cyberpunk
Only 18 developers shipped a Cyberpunk Party-Based RPG 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, Cyber Knights: Flashpoint, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 35 more are announced, ×4.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $6.7k, ×11 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $720; 1 in 20 cleared $2.6M, ×4192 the market median. Revenue is down 95% on the market; 35 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $719 (exactly $719) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.7k (exactly $6,716) |
| Top 25% | $67k (exactly $66,567) |
| Top 5% | $2.6M (exactly $2,632,522) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 50 |
| Announced | 35 |
| 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 down 95% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Party-Based RPG
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Cyberpunk
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Party-Based RPG; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry RPG, Turn-Based Combat, JRPG
- Price point
- $14.99 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Story Rich, 2D, Anime
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $14.99.
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 6,227 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $720. 5 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 35 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Party-Based RPG with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Board GameFair
- + Point & ClickFair
- + 2D PlatformerFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Martial ArtsPoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
- + Turn-BasedPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + IncrementalPoor odds
Comparable games
Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game 2023 · $4.9M 
Cyber Knights: Flashpoint 2025 · $2.6M 
Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening 2025 · EA · $1.3M 
FINAL FANTASY VII 2013 · $527k 
Jack Move 2022 · $488k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game | older | $39.99 | 4,087 87% | 123k | $4.9M (exactly $4,903,174) | Iron Tower Studio |
| | Cyber Knights: Flashpoint | $29.99 | 2,926 93% | 88k | $2.6M (exactly $2,632,522) | Trese Brothers | |
| | Rebellion GODSOUL: Awakening | · EA | $17.99 | 2,458 85% | 74k | $1.3M (exactly $1,326,583) | U-Secret Studio |
| | FINAL FANTASY VII | older | $11.99 | 1,464 74% | 44k | $527k (exactly $526,601) | Square Enix, FINE Co., Ltd. |
| | Jack Move | older | $19.99 | 813 80% | 24k | $488k (exactly $487,556) | So Romantic |
 | StarCrawlers | older | $19.99 | 793 82% | 24k | $476k (exactly $475,562) | Juggernaut Games |
 | Cosmic Star Heroine | older | $14.99 | 819 89% | 25k | $368k (exactly $368,304) | Zeboyd Digital Entertainment LLC |
 | Beyond Galaxyland | $14.99 | 314 85% | 9.4k | $141k (exactly $141,206) | Sam Enright | |
 | Keylocker | Turn Based Cyberpunk Action | $19.99 | 225 84% | 6.8k | $135k (exactly $134,932) | Moonana | |
 | Memoirs of a Battle Brothel | older | $19.99 | 207 84% | 6.2k | $124k (exactly $124,138) | A Memory of Eternity |
 | Vampire Syndicate: Gangs of MoonFall | · EA | $19.99 | 111 71% | 3.3k | $67k (exactly $66,567) | A Memory of Eternity |
 | Tomomon | $14.99 | 126 70% | 3.8k | $57k (exactly $56,662) | ManicBuild Studio | |
 | G-MODEアーカイブス+ ゼノサーガ パイドパイパー | $15.99 | 23 100% | 690 | $11k (exactly $11,033) | G-MODE, Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. | |
 | Holonoptic | $19.95 | 16 93% | 480 | $9.6k (exactly $9,576) | Glazial | |
 | Prometheus Wept | · EA | $15.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $6.7k (exactly $6,716) | Timeslip Softworks |
 | Fractured Core | $14.99 | 14 78% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | Engram Interactive |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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