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Should I ship a Party-Based RPG FPS?
FPS + Party-Based RPG
Only 9 developers shipped a Party-Based RPG FPS 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, Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 17 more are announced, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×0.5 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 17 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper, while momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $719 (exactly $719) |
| Top 25% | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) |
| Top 5% | $3.8M (exactly $3,788,154) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 17 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 250% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 33%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- FPS
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Party-Based RPG
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- FPS, Party-Based RPG
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $17.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 7,631 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 17 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator 2026 · $3.8M 
Brigand: Oaxaca 2017 · $165k 
Twilight Epoch 2025 · $4.6k 
Lost Hope 2024 · EA · $1.9k 
Sentinel Agency 2024 · EA · $1.8k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Kebab Chefs! - Restaurant Simulator | $17.99 | 7,019 83% | 211k | $3.8M (exactly $3,788,154) | Biotech Gameworks | |
| | Brigand: Oaxaca | older | $9.99 | 551 94% | 17k | $165k (exactly $165,135) | Brian J. Lancaster, Laughing Coyote Sof… (Brian J. Lancaster, Laughing Coyote Software) |
| | Twilight Epoch | $13.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $4.6k (exactly $4,617) | chimp | |
| | Lost Hope | · EA older | $4.99 | 13 46% | 390 | $1.9k (exactly $1,946) | Shadow Sparks Studios |
| | Sentinel Agency | · EA | $19.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | Phantomedia |
 | Expansion Core | · EA older | $4.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | CandleBird |
 | StellarPlans | older | $6.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.3k (exactly $1,258) | universe ocean |
 | Dungeon Apollonios | $3.99 | 7 71% | 210 | $838 (exactly $838) | nyomo221 | |
 | Keep It Running: Together | $5.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $719 (exactly $719) | EvilDraggie, Evil Turtle Productions | |
 | The Last Society | $0.99 | 6 16% | 180 | $178 (exactly $178) | CortexGameLabs | |
 | Just Another Animal | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | ronorg | |
 | Interstellar Holy Spirit | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | GaoGao |
 | The Cubic and Their Supporters | $1.25 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | TheOrangStood |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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