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Should I ship a Cyberpunk Trading Card Game?
Trading Card Game + Cyberpunk
Only 5 developers shipped a Cyberpunk Trading Card 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, Ender theater, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 22 more are announced, ×11 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $120 against a market of $630. 22 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $119 (exactly $119) |
| Top 25% | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) |
| Top 5% | $8.4k (exactly $8,392) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 22 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 35%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Trading Card Game
- 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
- Trading Card Game
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 9,247 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 22 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×11 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Trading Card Game with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Immersive SimStrong odds
- + SandboxFair
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + Procedural GenerationPoor odds
- + TradingPoor odds
- + Life SimPoor odds
- + CollectathonPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Auto BattlerPoor odds
- + Roguelike DeckbuilderPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
Comparable games
Nowhere Prophet 2019 · $541k 
Zup! F 2019 · $463k 
System Crash 2016 · $112k 
Zero Division 2024 · $106k 
CyberTD 2023 · $30k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Nowhere Prophet | older | $24.99 | 721 77% | 22k | $541k (exactly $540,534) | Sharkbomb Studios |
| | Zup! F | older | $1.99 | 7,749 96% | 232k | $463k (exactly $462,615) | Quiet River |
| | System Crash | older | $14.99 | 250 83% | 7.5k | $112k (exactly $112,425) | Rogue Moon Studios |
| | Zero Division | older | $12.99 | 271 87% | 8.1k | $106k (exactly $105,609) | Robot Cat Limited |
| | CyberTD | older | $19.99 | 50 66% | 1.5k | $30k (exactly $29,985) | Clockwork Origins |
 | Cartridge Defense | older | $11.99 | 80 91% | 2.4k | $29k (exactly $28,776) | Out Gaming |
 | Perfect Dice | older | $9.99 | 56 75% | 1.7k | $17k (exactly $16,783) | Tilt Station |
 | CITY WARS: TOKYO REIGN | older | $12.99 | 23 60% | 690 | $9.0k (exactly $8,963) | Mojo Bones Ltd |
 | Ender theater | $9.99 | 28 50% | 840 | $8.4k (exactly $8,392) | FeatherRain | |
 | Dickdown Duel | older | $9.99 | 19 73% | 570 | $5.7k (exactly $5,694) | Azurezero |
 | Cyber Quest | $7.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) | Super Punch Games | |
 | Apocalypse: The Hunger | $1.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | Bit Boy Games | |
 | The Black Signal | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | ERMedia | |
 | ESTRO Quantum | · EA | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Estro.Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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