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Should I ship a Martial-Arts Score Attack game?
Score Attack + Martial Arts
Only 14 developers shipped a Martial-Arts Score Attack 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, Dead as Disco, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450, ×0.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $120. Revenue is up 980% on the market; 12 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $11k (exactly $10,782) |
| Top 5% | $9.3M (exactly $9,261,794) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 42 |
| Announced | 12 |
| 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 up 980% on the market, supply 80% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Score Attack
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high 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
- Score Attack; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Arcade, Beat 'em up
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $34.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Stylized, Top-Down
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $34.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 12,647 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 12 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Dead as Disco 2026 · EA · $9.3M 
Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues 2021 · $250k 
Double Dragon Revive 2025 · $165k 
Double Dragon Trilogy 2015 · $147k 
UPPERS 2020 · $70k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dead as Disco | · EA | $24.99 | 12,354 96% | 371k | $9.3M (exactly $9,261,794) | Brain Jar Games, Inc. |
| | Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues | older | $19.99 | 417 84% | 13k | $250k (exactly $250,075) | Flux Games |
| | Double Dragon Revive | $34.99 | 157 63% | 4.7k | $165k (exactly $164,803) | YUKE’S | |
| | Double Dragon Trilogy | older | $5.99 | 816 57% | 24k | $147k (exactly $146,635) | Dotemu |
| | UPPERS | older | $14.99 | 155 78% | 4.7k | $70k (exactly $69,704) | Bullets |
 | Crazy Kung Fu | older | $14.99 | 71 87% | 2.1k | $32k (exactly $31,929) | Field Of Vision |
 | Viro Move | older | $24.99 | 23 43% | 690 | $17k (exactly $17,243) | FIT REALITY |
 | HAYAI | older | $1.99 | 236 98% | 7.1k | $14k (exactly $14,089) | Chaoclypse |
 | Disco Samurai | $9.99 | 45 88% | 1.4k | $13k (exactly $13,486) | Pixel Fiber Games | |
 | Candy Smash VR | older | $4.99 | 78 76% | 2.3k | $12k (exactly $11,677) | Wadup Games |
 | Rogue Samurai | $5.99 | 60 53% | 1.8k | $11k (exactly $10,782) | CO's Entertainment | |
 | JUST ONE MAN | · EA | $10.99 | 20 90% | 600 | $6.6k (exactly $6,594) | Raikiri |
 | RAGING BILL | $19.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | ARTPUNK STUDIO | |
 | Dalafri | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Y.Kageyama | |
 | Fight Ascension | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Erivan.L | |
 | Shuriken Practice 3 | $7.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | myBad Studios | |
 | POTUS vs. The World! | $1.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | F.a. Forge |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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