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Should I ship a Faith Incremental game?
Incremental + Faith
Only 14 developers shipped a Faith Incremental 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, Marisa!ReturnTheBook!, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, ×1.3 the market's $480 for a 3 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $180. Revenue is up 860% on the market; 19 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $179 (exactly $179) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $4.3k (exactly $4,315) |
| Top 5% | $126k (exactly $125,790) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 up 860% on the market, supply 150% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Incremental
- effort 1 / 10 · high · formulas and upgrade tables
- Faith
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Incremental
- Price point
- $3.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 1,029 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Incremental with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVStrong odds
- + OtomeStrong odds
- + Martial ArtsFair
- + FarmingFair
- + Dynamic NarrationFair
- + MiningFair
- + Souls-likeFair
- + Arena ShooterFair
- + Dating SimFair
- + UndergroundFair
- + LootFair
- + SupernaturalFair
Comparable games
Touhou Mystia's Izakaya 2021 · $5.3M 
Marisa!ReturnTheBook! 2025 · $126k 
Idle Chapel 2026 · $43k 
Elf Discipline Ceremony 2024 · $21k 
Let It Consume 2026 · $8.5k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Touhou Mystia's Izakaya | older | $5.99 | 29,517 98% | 886k | $5.3M (exactly $5,304,205) | 二色幽紫蝶, Re零同人社 |
| | Marisa!ReturnTheBook! | $5.99 | 700 90% | 21k | $126k (exactly $125,790) | NARROW, TSUKUYOMIC | |
| | Idle Chapel | $6.99 | 205 78% | 6.2k | $43k (exactly $42,988) | Outer Choir | |
| | Elf Discipline Ceremony | older | $10.99 | 63 58% | 1.9k | $21k (exactly $20,771) | Flag shadow |
| | Let It Consume | $4.99 | 57 73% | 1.7k | $8.5k (exactly $8,533) | Ibon Studios | |
 | Keine’s Terakoya: A Schoolhouse in Gensokyo | · EA | $7.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $4.3k (exactly $4,315) | The Creator Workgroup |
 | God Simulator | older | $4.99 | 26 26% | 780 | $3.9k (exactly $3,892) | Mateusz Kulis |
 | Emberlands: Desktop Village | $3.99 | 24 83% | 720 | $2.9k (exactly $2,873) | Tiny Roar | |
 | Lazarus A.D. 2222 | older | $4.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | Sons of Welder, FM Simple Games Studio |
 | Trajectory of summer flower Ⅱ | older | $4.99 | 12 66% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | SoraPrayer |
 | 易经·占卜 | $6.00 | 8 75% | 240 | $1.4k (exactly $1,440) | 三页先生 | |
 | Sanctum Protocol | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Koisoft | |
 | Transregnum | $2.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | Yunus Emre Aydar, Can Telkenaroglu | |
 | LuckyCat | $1.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $239 (exactly $239) | TanE Games | |
 | Find My Love | $1.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | Araujo Castle |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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