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Should I ship a Futuristic Dating Sim?
Dating Sim + Futuristic
Of 59 developers who shipped a Futuristic Dating Sim in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 46 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 4 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $5.4k, ×11 the market's $480 for a 4 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $3.0k. Revenue is down 10% on the market; 46 games are announced against 30 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $3.0k (exactly $2,967) |
|---|---|
| Median | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) |
| Top 25% | $25k (exactly $25,175) |
| Top 5% | $88k (exactly $88,112) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 59 |
| Released games | 158 |
| Announced | 46 |
| Effort | 4 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 6%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Dating Sim
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
- Futuristic
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 4 / 10 · mid 2D, writing-heavy, or simple 3D
- Systems
- Dating Sim; 7 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Visual Novel, Adventure, Choices Matter
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Story Rich, 3D, Realistic
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 3,065 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.0k. 7 in 10 of the 32 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 46 games are announced against 30 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Dating Sim with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + FMVStrong odds
- + Souls-likeStrong odds
- + AliensStrong odds
- + PlatformerStrong odds
- + HistoricalFair
- + FPSFair
- + Post-apocalypticFair
- + Quick-Time EventsFair
- + Immersive SimFair
- + Action-AdventureFair
- + TacticalFair
Comparable games
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist 2022 · $3.3M 
Eternights 2023 · $2.7M 
Baldr Sky 2019 · $2.3M 
Projekt: Passion - Season 1 2023 · $1.3M 
PARQUET 2021 · $903k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | I Was a Teenage Exocolonist | older | $24.99 | 4,443 96% | 133k | $3.3M (exactly $3,330,917) | Northway Games |
| | Eternights | older | $29.99 | 3,046 85% | 91k | $2.7M (exactly $2,740,486) | Studio Sai |
| | Baldr Sky | older | $49.99 | 1,524 93% | 46k | $2.3M (exactly $2,285,543) | Sekai Project |
| | Projekt: Passion - Season 1 | older | $11.99 | 3,501 92% | 105k | $1.3M (exactly $1,259,310) | Classy Lemon |
| | PARQUET | older | $16.99 | 1,771 95% | 53k | $903k (exactly $902,679) | YUZUSOFTSOUR |
 | Cyanotype Daydream -The Girl Who Dreamed the World- | older | $39.99 | 710 88% | 21k | $852k (exactly $851,787) | Laplacian |
 | Hookah Haze | older | $17.99 | 1,288 92% | 39k | $695k (exactly $695,134) | ACQUIRE Corp. |
 | Projekt: Passion - Season 2 | $11.99 | 1,005 93% | 30k | $361k (exactly $361,498) | Classy Lemon | |
 | Sexbot | $14.99 | 723 86% | 22k | $325k (exactly $325,133) | Llamamann Games | |
 | 反转21克 | older | $8.99 | 1,020 72% | 31k | $275k (exactly $275,094) | 想象颗粒 |
 | Villain's Legacy | $9.99 | 294 82% | 8.8k | $88k (exactly $88,112) | Mad scientist lab | |
 | Milfy Way: Space Orgasm 🪐🔞 | $14.99 | 172 75% | 5.2k | $77k (exactly $77,348) | Pocket Rocket Studio 🚀 | |
 | Lust Theory Season 3 | $14.99 | 146 60% | 4.4k | $66k (exactly $65,656) | Inceton Games | |
 | SQUAD XXX: Slut Hunt 🚨 | $14.99 | 133 76% | 4.0k | $60k (exactly $59,810) | Lewd Star | |
 | Stellar Dream - Part 1 | $14.99 | 129 87% | 3.9k | $58k (exactly $58,011) | Winterlook Games | |
 | Lust Effect [18+] | $14.99 | 124 66% | 3.7k | $56k (exactly $55,763) | Dirty Adventures 🖤 | |
 | Train and Tame | $9.99 | 184 65% | 5.5k | $55k (exactly $55,145) | Tames Games | |
 | Arcane Lust 18+ | $9.99 | 155 68% | 4.7k | $46k (exactly $46,454) | Carnality INC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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