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Should I ship an LGBTQ+ Souls-like?
Souls-like + LGBTQ+
Only 15 developers shipped an LGBTQ+ 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, Hades II, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced, ×5.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $23k against a market of $1.5k. 16 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $23k (exactly $23,384) |
| Top 25% | $1.5M (exactly $1,494,402) |
| Top 5% | $103M (exactly $102,942,774) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 70 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 20% on the market, supply 75% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Souls-like
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- LGBTQ+
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Souls-like
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 93% positive over 158,239 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 6 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Souls-like with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dating SimStrong odds
- + Visual NovelFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + JRPGFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + PsychologicalFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + Precision PlatformerLong shot
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + WarPoor odds
- + Turn-Based TacticsPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
Comparable games
Hades II 2025 · $103M 
God of War Ragnarök 2024 · $58M 
GreedFall 2019 · $19M 
Carnal Instinct 2021 · EA · $4.9M 
Changed 2018 · $2.4M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Hades II | $29.99 | 114,419 95% | 3.4M | $103M (exactly $102,942,774) | Supergiant Games | |
| | God of War Ragnarök | $59.99 | 32,502 89% | 975k | $58M (exactly $58,493,849) | Santa Monica Studio, Jetpack Interactive | |
| | GreedFall | older | $34.99 | 18,460 75% | 554k | $19M (exactly $19,377,462) | Spiders |
| | Carnal Instinct | · EA older | $29.99 | 5,407 82% | 162k | $4.9M (exactly $4,864,678) | Team Carnal Instinct |
| | Changed | older | $4.99 | 16,062 88% | 482k | $2.4M (exactly $2,404,481) | DragonSnow |
 | The Headliners | $7.99 | 8,534 86% | 256k | $2.0M (exactly $2,045,600) | KAFI | |
 | Hooked on You: A Dead by Daylight Dating Sim™ | older | $9.99 | 6,039 90% | 181k | $1.8M (exactly $1,809,888) | Psyop |
 | Eternal Strands | $29.99 | 1,661 87% | 50k | $1.5M (exactly $1,494,402) | Yellow Brick Games | |
 | An alt girl for skoof | older | $4.99 | 9,484 83% | 285k | $1.4M (exactly $1,419,755) | Terletski Games, RIKANIMATION |
 | UNSIGHTED | older | $19.99 | 1,863 93% | 56k | $1.1M (exactly $1,117,241) | Studio Pixel Punk |
 | Halluci-Sabbat of Koishi | $7.99 | 701 91% | 21k | $168k (exactly $168,030) | ZRIGN 地霊研究院 | |
 | Cafe DReAMLAND | $12.99 | 99 93% | 3.0k | $39k (exactly $38,580) | めとこ | |
 | Sex With Friends | $4.99 | 236 94% | 7.1k | $35k (exactly $35,329) | B-Team | |
 | Magissy | $14.99 | 52 46% | 1.6k | $23k (exactly $23,384) | Bit Fat Games | |
 | Plastic Lust | $3.99 | 29 79% | 870 | $3.5k (exactly $3,471) | Umbrelloid | |
 | Waifu Simulator | $4.99 | 6 50% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Slippy Floor |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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