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Should I ship a Cyberpunk Survival Horror?
Survival Horror + Cyberpunk
Only 15 developers shipped a Cyberpunk Survival Horror 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, Killing Floor 3, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 37 more are announced, ×3.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $180, ×0.3 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 37 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.7 per shipper, while revenue is down 100% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $179 (exactly $179) |
| Top 25% | $24k (exactly $24,276) |
| Top 5% | $20M (exactly $19,786,652) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 54 |
| Announced | 37 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Survival Horror
- 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
- Survival Horror
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 47% positive over 17,104 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 7 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 37 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Survival Horror with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVFair
- + DrivingFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + SnowFair
- + SportsFair
- + Outbreak SimFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + Boomer ShooterFair
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Spectacle fighterPoor odds
Comparable games
Ghostwire: Tokyo 2022 · $23M 
Killing Floor 3 2025 · $20M 
SIGNALIS 2022 · $18M 
System Shock 2023 · $12M 
Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition 2019 · $4.1M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ghostwire: Tokyo | older | $59.99 | 12,954 83% | 389k | $23M (exactly $23,313,314) | Tango Gameworks |
| | Killing Floor 3 | $39.99 | 16,493 46% | 495k | $20M (exactly $19,786,652) | Tripwire Interactive | |
| | SIGNALIS | older | $19.99 | 30,601 96% | 918k | $18M (exactly $18,351,420) | rose-engine |
| | System Shock | older | $39.99 | 9,786 90% | 294k | $12M (exactly $11,740,264) | Nightdive Studios |
| | Yuppie Psycho: Executive Edition | older | $16.99 | 8,003 95% | 240k | $4.1M (exactly $4,079,129) | Baroque Decay |
 | Receiver 2 | older | $19.99 | 2,852 90% | 86k | $1.7M (exactly $1,710,344) | Wolfire Games |
 | Apsulov: End of Gods | older | $19.99 | 1,509 86% | 45k | $905k (exactly $904,947) | Angry Demon Studio |
 | Hollowbody | older | $16.99 | 1,467 84% | 44k | $748k (exactly $747,730) | Headware Games |
 | P.A.M.E.L.A.® | older | $24.99 | 846 58% | 25k | $634k (exactly $634,246) | NVYVE® Studios |
 | Receiver | older | $4.99 | 2,603 85% | 78k | $390k (exactly $389,669) | Wolfire Games |
 | Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3 | $19.99 | 341 96% | 10k | $204k (exactly $204,498) | Strange Scaffold | |
 | Cyber Rats | $7.99 | 129 90% | 3.9k | $31k (exactly $30,921) | Outpost Games | |
 | Lily’s Labyrinth of Lust | $9.99 | 81 48% | 2.4k | $24k (exactly $24,276) | Erommersion Studios | |
 | Ship Of Mist | $5.99 | 31 77% | 930 | $5.6k (exactly $5,571) | Tino Technology | |
 | The Last Human In The Universe | $6.99 | 14 100% | 420 | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) | Kotama Software | |
 | Deep Sheol | $6.49 | 12 100% | 360 | $2.3k (exactly $2,336) | Acid Arrow Studio, Sons of Welder | |
 | Fatal Gaming | $1.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | Hazmatik | |
 | What Lurks Inside | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Dimension Unknown Studio LLC | |
 | Masters | · EA | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | KADUK VADIM |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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