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Should I ship an LGBTQ+ Party-Based RPG?
Party-Based RPG + LGBTQ+
Of 24 developers who shipped an LGBTQ+ Party-Based RPG 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.. 56 more are announced, ×6.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $6.5k, ×10 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.2k; 1 in 20 cleared $200k, ×331 the market median. Revenue is up 355% on the market; 56 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.5k (exactly $6,476) |
| Top 25% | $22k (exactly $22,478) |
| Top 5% | $208k (exactly $208,096) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 24 |
| Released games | 75 |
| Announced | 56 |
| 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 up 355% on the market, supply 40% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, 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
- LGBTQ+
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Party-Based RPG; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry RPG, Adventure, Turn-Based Combat
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
- Art
- 6 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Anime, Story Rich, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 1,044 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.2k. 9 in 10 of the 15 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 56 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Party-Based RPG with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + 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
Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™ 2021 · $9.6M 
In Stars And Time 2023 · $4.7M 
Small Saga 2023 · $1.1M 
Super Lesbian Animal RPG 2022 · $672k 
Virgo Versus The Zodiac 2019 · $474k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Ruined King: A League of Legends Story™ | older | $29.99 | 10,623 88% | 319k | $9.6M (exactly $9,557,513) | Airship Syndicate |
| | In Stars And Time | older | $19.99 | 7,835 97% | 235k | $4.7M (exactly $4,698,650) | insertdisc5 |
| | Small Saga | older | $19.99 | 1,821 95% | 55k | $1.1M (exactly $1,092,054) | Darya Noghani |
| | Super Lesbian Animal RPG | older | $14.99 | 1,494 98% | 45k | $672k (exactly $671,852) | ponett |
| | Virgo Versus The Zodiac | older | $19.99 | 790 92% | 24k | $474k (exactly $473,763) | Moonana |
 | SaGa Frontier Remastered | older | $24.99 | 558 91% | 17k | $418k (exactly $418,333) | Square Enix, Bullets |
 | Loren The Amazon Princess | older | $19.99 | 436 83% | 13k | $261k (exactly $261,469) | Winter Wolves |
 | BLUE REFLECTION Quartet | $49.99 | 140 57% | 4.2k | $210k (exactly $209,958) | KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. | |
 | Masquerada: Songs and Shadows | older | $19.99 | 348 88% | 10k | $209k (exactly $208,696) | Witching Hour Studios |
 | Battle Suit Aces | $19.99 | 347 90% | 10k | $208k (exactly $208,096) | Trinket Studios | |
 | Beloved Rapture | $19.99 | 237 82% | 7.1k | $142k (exactly $142,129) | Rapturous Studio | |
 | Class of Heroes 3 Remaster | $29.99 | 52 67% | 1.6k | $47k (exactly $46,784) | ACQUIRE Corp., Zerodiv | |
 | SuperQuest | $9.99 | 91 100% | 2.7k | $27k (exactly $27,273) | HyperShrimp | |
 | Naughty Tales of Rabbits - A Cuckold RPG | $9.99 | 75 88% | 2.3k | $22k (exactly $22,478) | Hyanmaru Games | |
 | Toward Dawn | $14.99 | 47 100% | 1.4k | $21k (exactly $21,136) | Devi Serene | |
 | The Chronicles of Lancelot 2 - The Adventure to Avalon | $24.99 | 23 52% | 690 | $17k (exactly $17,243) | Gayeti | |
 | Netoria Tactics 2 | · EA | $14.99 | 21 95% | 630 | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) | Apollo Seven Games |
 | Thieves Of Dingirra | $24.99 | 11 81% | 330 | $8.2k (exactly $8,247) | Winter Wolves |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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