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Should I ship an Escape Room Immersive Sim?
Immersive Sim + Escape Room
Of 23 developers who shipped an Escape Room Immersive 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.. 11 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 8 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.7k, ×1.8 the market's $1.5k for a 8 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $720; 1 in 20 cleared $170k, ×116 the market median. Revenue is down 30% on the market; 11 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $718 (exactly $718) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.7k (exactly $2,696) |
| Top 25% | $15k (exactly $14,915) |
| Top 5% | $173k (exactly $173,303) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 23 |
| Released games | 46 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 30% on the market, supply 35% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Immersive Sim
- effort 8 / 10 · low · effort 8 sits in the low band
- Escape Room
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- Immersive Sim, Escape Room; 9 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Exploration, Puzzle
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $12.99 or above
- Art
- 6 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Atmospheric, Realistic, First-Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $12.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 91% positive over 3,117 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $720. 8 in 10 of the 13 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Immersive Sim with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + RomanceFair
- + LGBTQ+Fair
- + Visual NovelFair
- + Split ScreenFair
Comparable games
Together: Moon Escape 2026 · $260k 
Liminalcore 2024 · $173k 
CAPTURED 2 2026 · $135k 
Mad Experiments: Escape Room 2020 · $134k 
CAPTURED 2024 · $121k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Together: Moon Escape | $9.99 | 868 90% | 26k | $260k (exactly $260,140) | CarlosGameDev | |
| | Liminalcore | $7.99 | 723 83% | 22k | $173k (exactly $173,303) | Shadow Owl Studios, Ashen Studios | |
| | CAPTURED 2 | $7.99 | 564 99% | 17k | $135k (exactly $135,191) | Puck Redflix | |
| | Mad Experiments: Escape Room | older | $14.99 | 297 69% | 8.9k | $134k (exactly $133,561) | PlayTogether Studio |
| | CAPTURED | $6.45 | 627 95% | 19k | $121k (exactly $121,324) | Puck Redflix | |
 | My Fav Chill Streamer Dies a Million Times｜ゆるゆる生配信する推しは100万回死ぬ | $34.99 | 114 92% | 3.4k | $120k (exactly $119,666) | VELUX STUDIO | |
 | Egression | older | $19.99 | 124 95% | 3.7k | $74k (exactly $74,363) | Hyperquad Studio |
 | The Devil is in the Details | $12.99 | 58 98% | 1.7k | $23k (exactly $22,603) | HideWorks | |
 | Hotel 188 | $5.99 | 83 89% | 2.5k | $15k (exactly $14,915) | Leonn Camayo | |
 | Stocksynd House | older | $7.99 | 53 83% | 1.6k | $13k (exactly $12,704) | CyberFlux Games, Gabro Media |
 | The Riese Project | · EA | $14.99 | 21 76% | 630 | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) | MasashigeDev |
 | Project Breakout | $9.99 | 26 65% | 780 | $7.8k (exactly $7,792) | maxkerpen | |
 | Liminal Department | $4.99 | 33 84% | 990 | $4.9k (exactly $4,940) | Digital Star Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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