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Should I ship a Dark-Fantasy Solitaire game?
Solitaire + Dark Fantasy
Only 19 developers shipped a Dark-Fantasy Solitaire 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, Forbidden Solitaire, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $89 in the last 2 years and $150 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 11 developers shipped in the last year and 14 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $89 (exactly $89) |
| Top 25% | $7.2k (exactly $7,155) |
| Top 5% | $1.1M (exactly $1,076,926) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 44 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.50 |
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 440% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 2%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Solitaire
- effort 1 / 10 · high · fixed rules, cards and a table
- Dark Fantasy
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Solitaire; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Card Game, Management, Simulation
- Price point
- $4.50 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, 2.5D, 2D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.50.
The top 10 games average 94% positive over 2,519 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 14 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Solitaire with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Female ProtagonistFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + ManagementFair
- + Immersive SimFair
- + MahjongFair
- + RomanceFair
- + CraftingFair
- + SimulationFair
- + FantasyFair
- + TacticalFair
- + SportsFair
- + Turn-Based CombatFair
Comparable games
Forbidden Solitaire 2026 · $1.1M 
Faerie Solitaire 2010 · $612k 
Arcana Academy 2025 · $30k 
Decks of the Damned 2025 · $16k 
Grime&Gold 2026 · $9.9k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Forbidden Solitaire | $15.99 | 2,245 96% | 67k | $1.1M (exactly $1,076,926) | Grey Alien Games, Night Signal Entertai… (Grey Alien Games, Night Signal Entertainment) | |
| | Faerie Solitaire | older | $14.99 | 1,361 89% | 41k | $612k (exactly $612,042) | Subsoap |
| | Arcana Academy | $14.99 | 67 71% | 2.0k | $30k (exactly $30,130) | 2A Studio | |
| | Decks of the Damned | $9.99 | 54 68% | 1.6k | $16k (exactly $16,184) | Thorian Games | |
| | Grime&Gold | $4.99 | 66 95% | 2.0k | $9.9k (exactly $9,880) | Pemdora, Zakku, Spartaqui | |
 | Card Crawl Adventure | older | $4.99 | 63 80% | 1.9k | $9.4k (exactly $9,431) | Arnold Rauers |
 | Goldenjar Fall - Definitive Edition | older | $9.99 | 29 58% | 870 | $8.7k (exactly $8,691) | Ardeal Studio |
 | Tales of The Nightmares™ Episode One | $4.50 | 53 88% | 1.6k | $7.2k (exactly $7,155) | RedDot Studios | |
 | Satan's puzzle 666 | older | $2.99 | 48 81% | 1.4k | $4.3k (exactly $4,306) | Silvestre Gore Art |
 | Dracula Frames | older | $3.99 | 34 91% | 1.0k | $4.1k (exactly $4,070) | Caio Flavio |
 | Hell Builder | $4.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) | Cuddle Code | |
 | Monster Girls Pieces | $1.99 | 18 72% | 540 | $1.1k (exactly $1,075) | Rodrigo Piedras | |
 | Brazzante | $2.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | All Place | |
 | The Stare | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Fire Toast | |
 | Survivor's Dawn | $0.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | MatheusDev |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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