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Should I ship a Female-Led Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + Female Protagonist
Of 45 developers who shipped a Female-Led Spectacle fighter 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.. 86 more are announced, ×3.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $7.2k, ×4.8 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $2.1k; 1 in 20 cleared $1.5M, ×1018 the market median. Revenue is up 1545% on the market; 86 games are announced against 25 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) |
|---|---|
| Median | $7.2k (exactly $7,196) |
| Top 25% | $103k (exactly $103,431) |
| Top 5% | $1.5M (exactly $1,524,437) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 45 |
| Released games | 137 |
| Announced | 86 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $12.99 |
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 1545% on the market, supply 20% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Spectacle fighter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Female Protagonist
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Spectacle fighter; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Action-Adventure, Hack and Slash
- Price point
- $12.99 typical · top 25% priced $24.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Anime, 3D, Story Rich
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $24.99 or above; the middle game at $12.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 13,637 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $2.1k. 7 in 10 of the 23 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 86 games are announced against 25 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Spectacle fighter with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Score AttackFair
- + HorrorFair
- + LootPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + MythologyPoor odds
- + FightingPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + NinjaPoor odds
Comparable games
NieR:Automata™ 2017 · $138M 
Granblue Fantasy: Relink 2024 · $49M 
Bayonetta 2017 · $16M 
Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition 2015 · $13M 
ICEY 2016 · $8.3M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | NieR:Automata™ | older | $39.99 | 115,103 88% | 3.5M | $138M (exactly $138,089,069) | Square Enix, PlatinumGames Inc. |
| | Granblue Fantasy: Relink | older | $39.99 | 41,227 89% | 1.2M | $49M (exactly $49,460,032) | Cygames, Inc. |
| | Bayonetta | older | $19.99 | 27,380 92% | 821k | $16M (exactly $16,419,786) | PlatinumGames |
| | Devil May Cry 4 Special Edition | older | $24.99 | 16,972 87% | 509k | $13M (exactly $12,723,908) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. |
| | ICEY | older | $10.99 | 25,142 89% | 754k | $8.3M (exactly $8,289,317) | FantaBlade Network |
 | RWBY: Grimm Eclipse | older | $19.99 | 9,834 81% | 295k | $5.9M (exactly $5,897,450) | Rooster Teeth Games, FarBridge |
 | ANNO: Mutationem | older | $24.99 | 5,833 80% | 175k | $4.4M (exactly $4,373,000) | ThinkingStars |
 | LOLLIPOP CHAINSAW RePOP | older | $44.99 | 2,657 88% | 80k | $3.6M (exactly $3,586,153) | DRAGAMI GAMES, LTD. |
 | Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight | older | $9.99 | 10,502 93% | 315k | $3.1M (exactly $3,147,449) | Bombservice |
 | LIZARDS MUST DIE | older | $3.99 | 23,315 96% | 699k | $2.8M (exactly $2,790,806) | Smola Game Studio |
 | FATAL FURY: City of the Wolves | $19.99 | 3,135 82% | 94k | $1.9M (exactly $1,880,059) | SNK CORPORATION | |
 | Homura Hime | $24.99 | 2,316 90% | 69k | $1.7M (exactly $1,736,305) | Crimson Dusk | |
 | Kotama and Academy Citadel | $19.99 | 2,542 80% | 76k | $1.5M (exactly $1,524,437) | Atomstring Games | |
 | Silly Polly Beast | $19.99 | 2,278 90% | 68k | $1.4M (exactly $1,366,117) | Anji | |
 | Mahou Arms | $39.99 | 618 73% | 19k | $741k (exactly $741,415) | Dischan Media | |
 | Rustil: Eternal Labyrinth Castle | $18.99 | 950 71% | 29k | $541k (exactly $541,215) | KTMG LLC. | |
 | 1348 Ex Voto | $24.99 | 705 53% | 21k | $529k (exactly $528,538) | Sedleo | |
 | BEYBLADE X XONE | $49.99 | 162 79% | 4.9k | $243k (exactly $242,951) | 株式会社グルーブボックスジャパン | |
 | Divinum | $14.99 | 525 85% | 16k | $236k (exactly $236,092) | Sigil Games | |
 | Poetry of Blood: Eclipse | · EA | $14.99 | 406 91% | 12k | $183k (exactly $182,578) | ZeroGameStudio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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