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Should I ship a Fighting Souls-like?
Fighting + Souls-like
Only 8 developers shipped a Fighting Souls-like 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, BLEACH Rebirth of Souls, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×3.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $24k, ×16 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.7k; 1 in 20 cleared $8.6M, ×5804 the market median. Revenue is down 100% on the market; 20 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.6k (exactly $1,615) |
|---|---|
| Median | $24k (exactly $23,834) |
| Top 25% | $627k (exactly $627,443) |
| Top 5% | $8.7M (exactly $8,694,351) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 56 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 100% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, 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
- Souls-like
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Fighting, Souls-like
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $39.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 228,361 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.7k. 20 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Fighting with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SandboxStrong odds
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Dark FantasyPoor odds
- + SwordplayPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + CyberpunkPoor odds
- + Local Co-OpPoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
- + Spectacle fighterPoor odds
Comparable games
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ 2019 · $184M 
Sifu 2023 · $26M 
SCARLET NEXUS 2021 · $25M 
Absolver 2017 · $10M 
BLEACH Rebirth of Souls 2025 · $8.7M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ | older | $39.99 | 153,782 88% | 4.6M | $184M (exactly $184,492,265) | Respawn Entertainment |
| | Sifu | older | $39.99 | 21,620 92% | 649k | $26M (exactly $25,937,514) | Sloclap |
| | SCARLET NEXUS | older | $59.99 | 13,749 81% | 412k | $25M (exactly $24,744,075) | BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc. |
| | Absolver | older | $29.99 | 11,464 74% | 344k | $10M (exactly $10,314,161) | Sloclap |
| | BLEACH Rebirth of Souls | $59.99 | 4,831 68% | 145k | $8.7M (exactly $8,694,351) | TAMSOFT CORPORATION | |
 | Thymesia | older | $24.99 | 8,262 82% | 248k | $6.2M (exactly $6,194,021) | OverBorder Studio |
 | Curse of the Dead Gods | older | $19.99 | 7,807 84% | 234k | $4.7M (exactly $4,681,858) | Passtech Games |
 | Enotria: The Last Song | older | $39.99 | 2,184 69% | 66k | $2.6M (exactly $2,620,145) | Jyamma Games |
 | SENRAN KAGURA Burst Re:Newal | older | $29.99 | 2,433 92% | 73k | $2.2M (exactly $2,188,970) | Tamsoft |
 | ELDERBORN | older | $14.99 | 2,229 87% | 67k | $1.0M (exactly $1,002,381) | Hyperstrange |
 | Blades of Fire | $39.99 | 523 74% | 16k | $627k (exactly $627,443) | MercurySteam | |
 | King of Bones | $7.99 | 316 85% | 9.5k | $76k (exactly $75,745) | Gluten Free Games | |
 | Mortal Rite | · EA | $14.99 | 53 62% | 1.6k | $24k (exactly $23,834) | Round Toast Studios |
 | SIRO | $9.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | X Soft Studio | |
 | Slappingrot | $2.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $1.6k (exactly $1,615) | Limeless | |
 | Souls Arena 100 Trials | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | SeedWall | |
 | Slash-Out: Fantasy Dueling | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Caleb Draper |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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