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Should I ship a Level Editor Party-Based RPG?
Party-Based RPG + Level Editor
Only 7 developers shipped a Level Editor Party-Based RPG 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, Dark Quest 4, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced, ×2.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, level with the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $81k, ×130 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 13 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $28k (exactly $28,059) |
| Top 5% | $82k (exactly $81,559) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 150% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 26%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Party-Based RPG
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Level Editor
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Party-Based RPG, Level Editor
- 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $14.99.
The top 10 games average 88% positive over 33,619 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 13 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Party-Based RPG with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Board GameFair
- + Point & ClickFair
- + 2D PlatformerFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Martial ArtsPoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
- + Turn-BasedPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + IncrementalPoor odds
Comparable games
Solasta: Crown of the Magister 2021 · $18M 
TaleSpire 2021 · EA · $3.3M 
Legend of Grimrock 2 2014 · $2.2M 
Legend of Grimrock 2012 · $2.2M 
The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians - Enhanced Edition 2015 · $375k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Solasta: Crown of the Magister | older | $29.99 | 19,680 87% | 590k | $18M (exactly $17,706,096) | Tactical Adventures |
| | TaleSpire | · EA older | $24.99 | 4,391 89% | 132k | $3.3M (exactly $3,291,933) | Bouncyrock Entertainment |
| | Legend of Grimrock 2 | older | $23.99 | 3,065 90% | 92k | $2.2M (exactly $2,205,880) | Almost Human Games |
| | Legend of Grimrock | older | $14.99 | 4,844 93% | 145k | $2.2M (exactly $2,178,347) | Almost Human Games |
| | The Fall of the Dungeon Guardians - Enhanced Edition | older | $19.99 | 625 83% | 19k | $375k (exactly $374,812) | Mana Games |
 | Dustwind | older | $24.99 | 341 75% | 10k | $256k (exactly $255,648) | Dustwind Studios |
 | Knights of the Chalice 2 | older | $44.99 | 117 70% | 3.5k | $158k (exactly $157,915) | Heroic Fantasy Games Dot Com |
 | Dungeon Of Dragon Knight | older | $11.99 | 315 74% | 9.5k | $113k (exactly $113,306) | HexGameStudio |
 | Dark Quest 4 | $19.99 | 136 75% | 4.1k | $82k (exactly $81,559) | Brain Seal Ltd | |
 | 战棋三国英雄 | older | $16.99 | 105 86% | 3.2k | $54k (exactly $53,518) | Dreamers Studio |
 | Dustwind: Resistance | $19.90 | 47 80% | 1.4k | $28k (exactly $28,059) | Dustwind Studios, Z-Software | |
 | 武道残编 | $3.99 | 37 59% | 1.1k | $4.4k (exactly $4,429) | 武道 | |
 | Sword of Jade: Parallel Dreams | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | FyreWulff Software | |
 | Idle Dragon Realm | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | tianqianwuya, tianqianwuya | |
 | Dungeon Gang | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hough Studio | |
 | Idiots in the DAS | · EA | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | iKaexo, RBIE |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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