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Should I ship a Cyberpunk Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + Cyberpunk
Only 18 developers shipped a Cyberpunk Spectacle fighter 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, NINJA GAIDEN 4, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 46 more are announced, ×4.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $6.1k, ×4.1 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150; 1 in 20 cleared $17M, ×11857 the market median. Revenue is up 385% on the market; 46 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.1k (exactly $6,110) |
| Top 25% | $31k (exactly $31,180) |
| Top 5% | $18M (exactly $17,761,362) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 18 |
| Released games | 63 |
| Announced | 46 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 385% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Spectacle fighter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Cyberpunk
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Spectacle fighter; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Character Action Game, Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $5.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Third Person, Anime
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $5.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 21,591 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 8 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 46 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Spectacle fighter with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Score AttackFair
- + HorrorFair
- + LootPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + MythologyPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + FightingPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
Comparable games
METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE 2014 · $62M 
Hi-Fi RUSH 2023 · $25M 
NINJA GAIDEN 4 2025 · $18M 
Dead as Disco 2026 · EA · $9.3M 
ICEY 2016 · $8.3M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE | older | $29.99 | 69,104 96% | 2.1M | $62M (exactly $62,172,869) | PlatinumGames |
| | Hi-Fi RUSH | older | $29.99 | 27,454 97% | 824k | $25M (exactly $24,700,364) | Tango Gameworks |
| | NINJA GAIDEN 4 | $69.99 | 8,459 88% | 254k | $18M (exactly $17,761,362) | PlatinumGames Inc. / Team NINJA / KOEI… (PlatinumGames Inc. / Team NINJA / KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.) | |
| | Dead as Disco | · EA | $24.99 | 12,354 96% | 371k | $9.3M (exactly $9,261,794) | Brain Jar Games, Inc. |
| | ICEY | older | $10.99 | 25,142 89% | 754k | $8.3M (exactly $8,289,317) | FantaBlade Network |
 | ANNO: Mutationem | older | $24.99 | 5,833 80% | 175k | $4.4M (exactly $4,373,000) | ThinkingStars |
 | Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition | older | $19.99 | 3,879 75% | 116k | $2.3M (exactly $2,326,236) | KADOKAWA GAMES / GRASSHOPPER MANUFACTURE |
 | El Shaddai ASCENSION OF THE METATRON HD Remaster | older | $29.99 | 457 83% | 14k | $411k (exactly $411,163) | crim Co., Ltd. |
 | Slave Zero X | older | $24.99 | 438 75% | 13k | $328k (exactly $328,369) | Poppy Works |
 | The Divine Invasion | older | $14.99 | 690 79% | 21k | $310k (exactly $310,293) | Whale Rock Games |
 | CONERU -DIMENSION GIRL- | $19.99 | 263 96% | 7.9k | $158k (exactly $157,721) | HIKE Inc., Eallin Japan Co.Ltd. | |
 | Cyberpunk SFX | $9.99 | 183 83% | 5.5k | $55k (exactly $54,845) | Whale Rock Games | |
 | TEXNOPLAZM | · EA | $15.99 | 65 98% | 2.0k | $31k (exactly $31,180) | Mothership Loudspeakerz |
 | Tales Of Glory 3 : Fists of Legend | $19.99 | 34 88% | 1.0k | $20k (exactly $20,390) | BlackTale Games | |
 | AI-deal-Rays [General Edition] | $5.99 | 112 58% | 3.4k | $20k (exactly $20,126) | Riez-ON | |
 | Jenny the Witch | $7.99 | 69 88% | 2.1k | $17k (exactly $16,539) | Catbird Soft | |
 | Quantum Beast | $5.99 | 34 100% | 1.0k | $6.1k (exactly $6,110) | RaidenV_00 | |
 | 1989 After the War | $4.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | SEEP |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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