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Should I ship a Martial-Arts Puzzle game?
Puzzle + Martial Arts
Only 9 developers shipped a Martial-Arts Puzzle 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, Forestrike, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $810, ×1.3 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $50. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 14 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $809 (exactly $809) |
| Top 25% | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) |
| Top 5% | $276k (exactly $275,724) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 250% more developers than the period before.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Puzzle
- effort 2 / 10 · high · discrete rules, levels are data
- 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
- Puzzle
- Price point
- $8.99 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 34,021 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 14 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Puzzle with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + AutomationFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
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Comparable games
Fate Seeker II 2021 · $7.7M 
Fate Seeker 2018 · $7.5M 
The Wind Road 2020 · $5.3M 
The Forgotten Concluder 2023 · $670k 
Floating Life2 2023 · $382k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Fate Seeker II | older | $22.60 | 11,360 88% | 341k | $7.7M (exactly $7,702,080) | JSL Entertainment |
| | Fate Seeker | older | $21.09 | 11,930 90% | 358k | $7.5M (exactly $7,548,111) | JSL Entertainment |
| | The Wind Road | older | $29.99 | 5,920 69% | 178k | $5.3M (exactly $5,326,224) | 甘肃嘉元数字科技有限公司 |
| | The Forgotten Concluder | older | $24.99 | 894 74% | 27k | $670k (exactly $670,232) | Kunpo Games |
| | Floating Life2 | older | $19.99 | 637 50% | 19k | $382k (exactly $382,009) | 心流工作室（Heart Stream Studio） |
 | Forestrike | $9.99 | 920 91% | 28k | $276k (exactly $275,724) | Skeleton Crew Studio, Thomas Olsson | |
 | 鸿源战纪 - Tales of Hongyuan | older | $12.99 | 442 78% | 13k | $172k (exactly $172,247) | Hongyuan Game |
 | Ato | older | $14.99 | 339 97% | 10k | $152k (exactly $152,448) | Tiny Warrior Games |
 | Ninja Stealth | older | $4.99 | 912 76% | 27k | $137k (exactly $136,526) | SC Jogos |
 | Ninja Stealth 2 | older | $4.99 | 667 70% | 20k | $100k (exactly $99,850) | SC Jogos |
 | Mutants Ate My Carrots | $11.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $4.3k (exactly $4,316) | Animatic Vision | |
 | 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） | |
 | Little Fighters on Stream | $3.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $1.1k (exactly $1,077) | TEAM Black Hat Robot | |
 | Last Shinobi | $8.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | Dark Tomato Studio | |
 | Sumo Battlegrounds | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Game Devs Anonymous | |
 | 100 Words | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Dijio Games | |
 | Kin Tandem | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Tall Horse Community | |
 | The Sudoku Way | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | What To Do!? Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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