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Should I ship a Female-Led MMORPG?
MMORPG + Female Protagonist
Only 4 developers shipped a paid Female-Led MMORPG in the last 2 years. Over 4 years, 7 did: 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.. 6 in 10 of the games here are free to play and sit outside these figures. 12 more are announced, ×6.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 10 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $510 against a market of $1.3k. 12 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $327 (exactly $327) |
|---|---|
| Median | $505 (exactly $505) |
| Top 25% | $31k (exactly $31,036) |
| Top 5% | $582k (exactly $581,912) |
| Developers, 4 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 10 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $1.99 |
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 as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 57%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- MMORPG
- effort 10 / 10 · low · persistent world servers and a live economy
- Female Protagonist
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 10 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- MMORPG
- Price point
- $1.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 4 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 80,682 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $330. 12 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
MMORPG with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + TradingPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Dungeon CrawlerPoor odds
- + CraftingPoor odds
- + MagicPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + FantasyPoor odds
- + Class-BasedPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + ExplorationPoor odds
Comparable games
FINAL FANTASY XIV Online 2014 · $47M 
Equinox: Homecoming 2026 · $582k 
Sakura MMO 2018 · $70k 
Sakura MMO 3 2019 · $43k 
Para Ark 2023 · $31k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | FINAL FANTASY XIV Online | older | $19.99 | 78,661 86% | 2.4M | $47M (exactly $47,173,002) | Square Enix |
| | Equinox: Homecoming | $14.99 | 1,294 80% | 39k | $582k (exactly $581,912) | Blue Scarab Entertainment | |
| | Sakura MMO | older | $9.99 | 233 87% | 7.0k | $70k (exactly $69,830) | Winged Cloud |
| | Sakura MMO 3 | older | $9.99 | 142 95% | 4.3k | $43k (exactly $42,557) | Winged Cloud |
| | Para Ark | older | $6.99 | 148 91% | 4.4k | $31k (exactly $31,036) | ST Hot Dog King |
 | Riding Star - Horse Championship! | older | $9.99 | 102 69% | 3.1k | $31k (exactly $30,569) | Sproing |
 | 神徒 | older | $3.99 | 39 71% | 1.2k | $4.7k (exactly $4,668) | 陈世杰 |
 | Elite Hacker: Retro Hacking Evolution: Grand Theft Transsexual Uplink Matrix Terminator SEO Words | older | $0.99 | 35 91% | 1.1k | $1.0k (exactly $1,040) | BoringKate |
 | Cheese Co-op Clicker Simulator | $0.99 | 17 76% | 510 | $505 (exactly $505) | asxgames | |
 | Gverse | · EA older | $0.99 | 11 45% | 330 | $327 (exactly $327) | GalaxyVerse |
 | Yuki Onna: Snowball Fight! | $1.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $239 (exactly $239) | YStar | |
 | Ambasu | · EA | $1.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Ekofi Gaming |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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