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Should I ship a Futuristic Fighting game?
Fighting + Futuristic
Only 8 developers shipped a Futuristic Fighting 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, Clone Drone in the Hyperdome, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 34 more are announced, ×17 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $7.2k against a market of $1.5k. 34 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $7.2k (exactly $7,196) |
| Top 25% | $31k (exactly $30,738) |
| Top 5% | $628k (exactly $628,486) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 68 |
| Announced | 34 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $19.99 |
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 65% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Fighting
- effort 7 / 10 · low · frame data, hitboxes and rollback netcode
- Futuristic
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Fighting
- Price point
- $19.99 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 116,160 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 34 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×17 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Fighting with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SandboxStrong odds
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + Souls-likePoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CyberpunkPoor odds
- + Local Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
Comparable games
Ghostrunner 2020 · $42M 
SCARLET NEXUS 2021 · $25M 
Clone Drone in the Danger Zone 2021 · $22M 
Remember Me 2013 · $10M 
SpiderHeck 2022 · $1.8M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ghostrunner | older | $29.99 | 46,818 91% | 1.4M | $42M (exactly $42,122,155) | One More Level, 3D Realms, Slipgate Iro… (One More Level, 3D Realms, Slipgate Ironworks™, All in! Games) |
| | SCARLET NEXUS | older | $59.99 | 13,749 81% | 412k | $25M (exactly $24,744,075) | BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc. |
| | Clone Drone in the Danger Zone | older | $19.99 | 36,084 96% | 1.1M | $22M (exactly $21,639,575) | Doborog Games |
| | Remember Me | older | $29.99 | 11,128 83% | 334k | $10M (exactly $10,011,862) | DONTNOD Entertainment |
| | SpiderHeck | older | $14.99 | 3,922 93% | 118k | $1.8M (exactly $1,763,723) | Neverjam |
 | Kung Fury: Street Rage - Ultimate Edition | older | $19.99 | 2,251 89% | 68k | $1.3M (exactly $1,349,925) | Hello There Games |
 | Clone Drone in the Hyperdome | $19.99 | 1,048 91% | 31k | $628k (exactly $628,486) | Doborog Games | |
 | Swords of Gurrah | · EA older | $14.99 | 622 78% | 19k | $280k (exactly $279,713) | Devster, LLC |
 | Omikron: The Nomad Soul | older | $9.99 | 420 68% | 13k | $126k (exactly $125,874) | Quantic Dream |
 | Override 2: Super Mech League | older | $29.99 | 118 60% | 3.5k | $106k (exactly $106,165) | Maximum Entertainment |
 | Coreupt | $24.99 | 41 78% | 1.2k | $31k (exactly $30,738) | Team Coreupt LLC | |
 | RAGER | $19.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) | Insane Prey | |
 | Virtue's Heaven | $19.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $7.2k (exactly $7,196) | MOKKOGRAD | |
 | FINAL FURY | · EA | $4.99 | 10 60% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | Kluge Interactive |
 | DAMex : DArk Matter Exodus | $4.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Benoit Locu | |
 | Dalafri | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Y.Kageyama | |
 | MERIDIAN | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Alexander Kosenko |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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