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Should I ship a Logic Souls-like?
Souls-like + Logic
Only 6 developers shipped a Logic 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, Who Takes The Crown?, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced, ×5.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $3.8k against a market of $1.5k. 11 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.8k (exactly $3,835) |
| Top 25% | $6.0k (exactly $5,992) |
| Top 5% | $8.9k (exactly $8,869) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 11 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 50% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, 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
- Logic
- effort 2 / 10 · high · deductive rules and grids
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Souls-like, Logic
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 2,766 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Souls-like with a different second tag, 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
Purple Place - Classic Games 2023 · $138k 
Kharon's Crypt - Even Death May Die 2022 · $39k 
Undergrave 2022 · $22k 
Save the Reactor 2022 · $19k 
PortalSnake 2023 · $11k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Purple Place - Classic Games | older | $1.99 | 2,305 85% | 69k | $138k (exactly $137,608) | Sam Cohle |
| | Kharon's Crypt - Even Death May Die | older | $14.99 | 87 96% | 2.6k | $39k (exactly $39,124) | Hebi Lee |
| | Undergrave | older | $9.99 | 72 87% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $21,578) | Wired Dreams Studio |
| | Save the Reactor | older | $4.99 | 126 95% | 3.8k | $19k (exactly $18,862) | Hypnohead |
| | PortalSnake | older | $6.99 | 54 100% | 1.6k | $11k (exactly $11,324) | bcat112a |
 | Who Takes The Crown? | $7.99 | 37 83% | 1.1k | $8.9k (exactly $8,869) | devthedoug | |
 | Peppy's Adventure | older | $7.99 | 30 100% | 900 | $7.2k (exactly $7,191) | Pepite Studios |
 | Go | $7.99 | 25 72% | 750 | $6.0k (exactly $5,992) | Popoko VM Games | |
 | Risk of Pain | older | $9.99 | 15 80% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | BekkerDev Studio |
 | Super Retro BoxBot | older | $9.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | Joseph Holliday |
 | SuperPosition | $7.99 | 16 100% | 480 | $3.8k (exactly $3,835) | Kimel | |
 | Chinese Chess - Xiangqi | $7.99 | 8 100% | 240 | $1.9k (exactly $1,918) | Popoko VM Games | |
 | The Grappler | · EA | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | KO Productions |
 | Seema's Pogo 2 Top Of The World | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Kazarma | |
 | Glyph Gambit: Endgame | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | AutoIntellect |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
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