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Should I ship a Music Dating Sim?
Dating Sim + Music
Only 5 developers shipped a Music Dating Sim 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, K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 8 more are announced, ×2.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 4 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $2.4k against a market of $480. 8 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) |
| Top 25% | $5.7k (exactly $5,664) |
| Top 5% | $105k (exactly $104,947) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 8 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 27%, 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
- Music
- 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
- Price point
- $8.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 92% positive over 20,809 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 8 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Dating Sim with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + WarStrong odds
- + FMVStrong odds
- + Souls-likeStrong odds
- + AliensStrong odds
- + PlatformerStrong odds
- + HistoricalFair
- + FPSFair
- + Post-apocalypticFair
- + Quick-Time EventsFair
- + Immersive SimFair
- + Action-AdventureFair
- + TacticalFair
Comparable games
Florence 2020 · $2.7M 
Symphonic Rain 2017 · $1.3M 
9-nine-:Episode 4 2021 · $881k 
Hiveswap Friendsim 2018 · $475k 
OBSCURA 2024 · EA · $204k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Florence | older | $5.99 | 14,826 93% | 445k | $2.7M (exactly $2,664,232) | Mountains |
| | Symphonic Rain | older | $39.99 | 1,114 97% | 33k | $1.3M (exactly $1,336,466) | KOGADO STUDIO |
| | 9-nine-:Episode 4 | older | $19.99 | 1,469 97% | 44k | $881k (exactly $880,959) | PALETTE |
| | Hiveswap Friendsim | older | $12.99 | 1,220 93% | 37k | $475k (exactly $475,434) | What Pumpkin Games, Inc. |
| | OBSCURA | · EA older | $14.99 | 453 99% | 14k | $204k (exactly $203,714) | Rotten Raccoons |
 | SpunkStock: Music Festival | older | $14.99 | 406 95% | 12k | $183k (exactly $182,578) | RegulusNSFW |
 | K-pop Idol Stories: Road to Debut | $19.99 | 175 53% | 5.3k | $105k (exactly $104,947) | Wisageni Studio | |
 | Love Rhythm | older | $2.99 | 571 78% | 17k | $51k (exactly $51,219) | Triple-S |
 | My Furry Dictator 🐾 | older | $4.99 | 322 75% | 9.7k | $48k (exactly $48,203) | Dirty Fox Games |
 | My Furry Neighbour 🐾 | older | $4.99 | 253 77% | 7.6k | $38k (exactly $37,874) | Dirty Fox Games |
 | The Dreamwalkers | $8.99 | 21 85% | 630 | $5.7k (exactly $5,664) | Nightbloomer Studio | |
 | Nude Star: Kawaii Strip Show — Backstage Secrets Revealed | $9.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | Games For Pleasure | |
 | Beats of Lust | $3.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | Zylyx Team | |
 | Cafe Rhythm | $5.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | SuccuYume |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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