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Should I ship a Martial-Arts Loot game?
Loot + Martial Arts
Only 13 developers shipped a Martial-Arts Loot 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, 龙胤立志传, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 24 more are announced, ×2.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $14k, ×22 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.2k; 1 in 20 cleared $4.2M, ×6831 the market median. Revenue is up 145% on the market; 24 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) |
|---|---|
| Median | $14k (exactly $14,017) |
| Top 25% | $181k (exactly $181,238) |
| Top 5% | $4.3M (exactly $4,289,654) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 24 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 145% on the market, supply 235% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 24%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Loot
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Martial Arts
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Loot; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Adventure, Auto Battler, Inventory Management
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Anime, Pixel Graphics
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 77% positive over 9,276 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.2k. 24 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Loot with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Artificial IntelligenceStrong odds
- + Local Co-OpStrong odds
- + SteampunkStrong odds
- + CapitalismFair
- + Turn-Based StrategyFair
- + JRPGFair
- + EconomyFair
- + IdlerFair
- + CatsFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + Creature CollectorFair
- + CollectathonFair
Comparable games
河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon) 2018 · $5.2M 
龙胤立志传 2026 · $4.3M 
The Lost Village 2024 · $987k 
Fate Seeker: Journey 2022 · $332k 
Tales of Spark 2024 · EA · $239k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 河洛群俠傳 (Ho Tu Lo Shu ： The Books of Dragon) | older | $17.99 | 9,616 81% | 288k | $5.2M (exactly $5,189,755) | 香港商河洛互動娛樂股份有限公司 |
| | 龙胤立志传 | $19.99 | 7,153 77% | 215k | $4.3M (exactly $4,289,654) | TPP Studio | |
| | The Lost Village | older | $11.99 | 2,743 70% | 82k | $987k (exactly $986,657) | FunYoo Games |
| | Fate Seeker: Journey | older | $10.00 | 1,105 77% | 33k | $332k (exactly $331,500) | JSL Entertainment |
| | Tales of Spark | · EA older | $13.99 | 569 75% | 17k | $239k (exactly $238,809) | Ice and Fire Isle Studio |
 | Backpack Jianghu | $13.99 | 565 80% | 17k | $237k (exactly $237,130) | 背包工作室 | |
 | 懒人修仙传2 | · EA older | $7.99 | 873 71% | 26k | $209k (exactly $209,258) | 托更的修罗 |
 | Warlords Battleground: Extraction | $11.99 | 525 84% | 16k | $189k (exactly $188,842) | 绝汪 | |
 | Desktop Raid | $8.99 | 672 76% | 20k | $181k (exactly $181,238) | Lee_Studio | |
 | XiuzhenWorld | older | $12.99 | 436 75% | 13k | $170k (exactly $169,909) | Noforgetit |
 | Three Kingdoms Heroes | $6.99 | 126 81% | 3.8k | $26k (exactly $26,422) | 青衣工作室 | |
 | 长路江湖 - 九州群芳 | $4.99 | 127 57% | 3.8k | $19k (exactly $19,012) | SourceIn Games | |
 | Immortal IDLE | · EA | $5.99 | 78 64% | 2.3k | $14k (exactly $14,017) | 伯乐Couple |
 | Bestia Forge | $7.99 | 12 41% | 360 | $2.9k (exactly $2,876) | StarMatrix Labs | |
 | Idle Wuxia Heroes | $5.99 | 13 53% | 390 | $2.3k (exactly $2,336) | StarMatrix Labs | |
 | 虚衝 - Kyosho | $9.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | むつむつプロジェクト（Mutsu'pro） |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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