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Should I ship a Dark-Fantasy Fighting game?
Fighting + Dark Fantasy
Only 11 developers shipped a Dark-Fantasy Fighting 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, BLEACH Rebirth of Souls, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 23 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 $56k, ×38 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $24k; 1 in 20 cleared $8.6M, ×5804 the market median. Revenue is down 10% on the market; 23 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $24k (exactly $23,834) |
|---|---|
| Median | $56k (exactly $56,372) |
| Top 25% | $627k (exactly $627,443) |
| Top 5% | $8.7M (exactly $8,694,351) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 55 |
| Announced | 23 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $19.99 |
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 10% on the market, supply 30% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 20%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Fighting
- effort 7 / 10 · low · frame data, hitboxes and rollback netcode
- Dark Fantasy
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Fighting
- Price point
- $19.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 75% positive over 8,628 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $24k. 6 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 23 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Fighting with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SandboxStrong odds
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Souls-likePoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CyberpunkPoor odds
- + Local Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
- + Spectacle fighterPoor odds
Comparable games
BLEACH Rebirth of Souls 2025 · $8.7M 
Thymesia 2022 · $6.2M 
Curse of the Dead Gods 2021 · $4.7M 
Enotria: The Last Song 2024 · $2.6M 
Tears of Metal 2026 · EA · $1.8M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | BLEACH Rebirth of Souls | $59.99 | 4,831 68% | 145k | $8.7M (exactly $8,694,351) | TAMSOFT CORPORATION | |
| | Thymesia | older | $24.99 | 8,262 82% | 248k | $6.2M (exactly $6,194,021) | OverBorder Studio |
| | Curse of the Dead Gods | older | $19.99 | 7,807 84% | 234k | $4.7M (exactly $4,681,858) | Passtech Games |
| | Enotria: The Last Song | older | $39.99 | 2,184 69% | 66k | $2.6M (exactly $2,620,145) | Jyamma Games |
| | Tears of Metal | · EA | $24.99 | 2,359 85% | 71k | $1.8M (exactly $1,768,542) | Paper Cult |
 | Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood | older | $29.99 | 1,463 69% | 44k | $1.3M (exactly $1,316,261) | Cyanide Studio |
 | ELDERBORN | older | $14.99 | 2,229 87% | 67k | $1.0M (exactly $1,002,381) | Hyperstrange |
 | Moonscars | older | $19.99 | 1,214 82% | 36k | $728k (exactly $728,036) | Black Mermaid |
 | The Shore | older | $11.99 | 1,763 70% | 53k | $634k (exactly $634,151) | Ares Dragonis |
 | Blades of Fire | $39.99 | 523 74% | 16k | $627k (exactly $627,443) | MercurySteam | |
 | Ertugrul of Ulukayin | · EA | $19.99 | 447 84% | 13k | $268k (exactly $268,066) | Tekden Studio |
 | Two Strikes | $14.99 | 256 89% | 7.7k | $115k (exactly $115,123) | Retro Reactor | |
 | DaemonBride:ADDITIONAL GAIN | $19.99 | 94 82% | 2.8k | $56k (exactly $56,372) | Team Arcana, Kizawaya | |
 | WORLD HEROES PERFECT | $19.99 | 50 86% | 1.5k | $30k (exactly $29,985) | Code Mystics | |
 | Mortal Rite | · EA | $14.99 | 53 62% | 1.6k | $24k (exactly $23,834) | Round Toast Studios |
 | Unbound Eternity | $9.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Yunicorn Studio | |
 | Pure Instinct Katana | $24.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $3.0k (exactly $2,999) | Pure Instinct Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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