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Should I ship a Martial-Arts Party-Based RPG?
Party-Based RPG + Martial Arts
Only 5 developers shipped a Martial-Arts Party-Based RPG 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, Beast Saga, 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, ×3.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $230k, ×366 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $47k; 1 in 20 cleared $1.7M, ×2721 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 16 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $47k (exactly $46,784) |
|---|---|
| Median | $230k (exactly $230,054) |
| Top 25% | $1.0M (exactly $1,033,283) |
| Top 5% | $1.7M (exactly $1,709,006) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $19.99 |
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: too few recent games to read.
Free games: 16%, 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
- 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
- Party-Based RPG
- Price point
- $19.99 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 $20.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 85% positive over 19,285 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $47k. 16 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Party-Based RPG with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Board GameFair
- + Point & ClickFair
- + 2D PlatformerFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
- + Turn-BasedPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + IncrementalPoor odds
- + Grid-Based MovementPoor odds
Comparable games
Beast Saga 2026 · $1.7M 
Psychic Kung Fu Master 2026 · $1.0M 
Jade Empire™: Special Edition 2007 · $849k 
英雄群侠传II 2019 · $756k 
Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Scar of Sky 2021 · $730k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Beast Saga | $20.99 | 2,714 80% | 81k | $1.7M (exactly $1,709,006) | 嘉兴黑曜石(Jiaxing Obsidian) | |
| | Psychic Kung Fu Master | $19.99 | 1,723 60% | 52k | $1.0M (exactly $1,033,283) | 金十四工作室 | |
| | Jade Empire™: Special Edition | older | $14.99 | 1,887 76% | 57k | $849k (exactly $848,584) | BioWare |
| | 英雄群侠传II | older | $11.99 | 2,103 88% | 63k | $756k (exactly $756,449) | 熊窝dodox |
| | Xuan-Yuan Sword: The Scar of Sky | older | $9.99 | 2,437 93% | 73k | $730k (exactly $730,369) | DOMO Studio, SOFTSTAR ENTERTAINMENT |
 | Sword and Fairy | older | $4.99 | 3,947 97% | 118k | $591k (exactly $590,866) | SOFTSTAR ENTERTAINMENT |
 | Xuan-Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains | older | $13.99 | 1,161 84% | 35k | $487k (exactly $487,272) | DOMO Studio, SOFTSTAR ENTERTAINMENT |
 | Sword and Fairy 3 | older | $7.99 | 1,936 84% | 58k | $464k (exactly $464,059) | SOFTSTAR TECHNOLOGY(SHANGHAI) |
 | 万象群侠传 | $8.99 | 853 85% | 26k | $230k (exactly $230,054) | 火天工作室 | |
 | Sword and Fairy 3 Ex | older | $7.99 | 524 82% | 16k | $126k (exactly $125,603) | SOFTSTAR TECHNOLOGY(SHANGHAI) |
 | Class of Heroes 3 Remaster | $29.99 | 52 67% | 1.6k | $47k (exactly $46,784) | ACQUIRE Corp., Zerodiv | |
 | 武道残编 | $3.99 | 37 59% | 1.1k | $4.4k (exactly $4,429) | 武道 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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