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Should I ship an LGBTQ+ Stealth game?
Stealth + LGBTQ+
Only 19 developers shipped an LGBTQ+ Stealth game 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, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 30 more are announced, ×2.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $30k, ×48 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $600; 1 in 20 cleared $60M, ×95811 the market median. Revenue is down 100% on the market; 30 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $600 (exactly $600) |
|---|---|
| Median | $30k (exactly $30,397) |
| Top 25% | $10M (exactly $10,287,942) |
| Top 5% | $60M (exactly $60,169,370) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 41 |
| Announced | 30 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $12.99 |
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 180% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 5%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Stealth; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Adventure, Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $12.99 typical · top 25% priced $59.99 or above
- Art
- 6 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Story Rich, Atmospheric, Third Person
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $59.99 or above; the middle game at $12.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 99,668 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 2 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 30 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Stealth with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + WargamePoor odds
- + DinosaursPoor odds
- + Gun CustomizationPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + WarPoor odds
- + DrivingPoor odds
Comparable games
Dead by Daylight 2016 · $411M 
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 2025 · $60M 
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales 2022 · $59M 
The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered 2025 · $51M 
Far Cry® New Dawn 2019 · $39M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dead by Daylight | older | $19.99 | 685,423 78% | 21M | $411M (exactly $411,048,173) | Behaviour Interactive Inc. |
| | Marvel's Spider-Man 2 | $59.99 | 33,433 83% | 1.0M | $60M (exactly $60,169,370) | Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software | |
| | Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales | older | $49.99 | 39,234 93% | 1.2M | $59M (exactly $58,839,230) | Insomniac Games, Nixxes Software |
| | The Last of Us™ Part II Remastered | $49.99 | 34,252 90% | 1.0M | $51M (exactly $51,367,724) | Naughty Dog LLC, Nixxes Software, Iron… (Naughty Dog LLC, Nixxes Software, Iron Galaxy Studios) | |
| | Far Cry® New Dawn | older | $39.99 | 32,169 75% | 965k | $39M (exactly $38,593,149) | Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Kiev, Ubisoft… (Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft Kiev, Ubisoft Shanghai) |
 | Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition | older | $59.99 | 20,438 87% | 613k | $37M (exactly $36,782,269) | Guerrilla, Nixxes Software |
 | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle | $69.99 | 13,058 89% | 392k | $27M (exactly $27,417,883) | MachineGames | |
 | Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2 | $59.99 | 10,443 55% | 313k | $19M (exactly $18,794,267) | The Chinese Room | |
 | Horizon Zero Dawn™ Remastered | $49.99 | 6,860 84% | 206k | $10M (exactly $10,287,942) | Guerrilla Games, Nixxes Software | |
 | Remothered: Broken Porcelain | older | $29.99 | 667 62% | 20k | $600k (exactly $600,100) | Stormind Games |
 | Aphelion | $29.99 | 303 63% | 9.1k | $273k (exactly $272,609) | DON'T NOD | |
 | Brush Burial: Gutter World | $9.99 | 838 93% | 25k | $251k (exactly $251,149) | Knife Demon Software | |
 | BrokenLore: UNFOLLOW | $19.99 | 247 73% | 7.4k | $148k (exactly $148,126) | Serafini Productions | |
 | Monaco 2 | $14.99 | 156 63% | 4.7k | $70k (exactly $70,153) | Pocketwatch Games | |
 | Human Farm : Investigation : | $12.99 | 78 80% | 2.3k | $30k (exactly $30,397) | とっくり海月 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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