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Should I ship a Ninja Multiple Endings game?
Multiple Endings + Ninja
Only 10 developers shipped a Ninja Multiple Endings 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, Rise of the Ronin, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced, ×10.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.3k against a market of $630. 10 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $629 (exactly $629) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.3k (exactly $1,349) |
| Top 25% | $3.0k (exactly $2,994) |
| Top 5% | $9.8M (exactly $9,752,549) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 90% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Multiple Endings
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Ninja
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Multiple Endings
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 64% positive over 6,571 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $630. 9 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 10 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×10.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Multiple Endings with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Level EditorFair
- + Job SimulatorFair
- + SuperheroFair
- + 4 Player LocalFair
- + Escape RoomFair
- + GamblingFair
- + TriviaFair
- + Score AttackFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + Arena ShooterFair
Comparable games
Rise of the Ronin 2025 · $9.8M 
LIVE A LIVE 2023 · $1.2M 
Way of the Samurai 3 2016 · $522k 
Fallen Shinobi SS. 2023 · $437k 
Lkyt. 2023 · $244k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Rise of the Ronin | $49.99 | 6,503 64% | 195k | $9.8M (exactly $9,752,549) | KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD. | |
| | LIVE A LIVE | older | $49.99 | 785 85% | 24k | $1.2M (exactly $1,177,264) | Square Enix, historia Inc. |
| | Way of the Samurai 3 | older | $19.99 | 871 73% | 26k | $522k (exactly $522,339) | ACQUIRE Corp. |
| | Fallen Shinobi SS. | older | $14.99 | 971 92% | 29k | $437k (exactly $436,659) | marron☆marron |
| | Lkyt. | older | $44.99 | 181 95% | 5.4k | $244k (exactly $244,296) | parade |
 | Nine-Tailed Okitsune Tale | older | $17.99 | 297 95% | 8.9k | $160k (exactly $160,291) | ChaoGames |
 | Ninja Stealth 2 | older | $4.99 | 667 70% | 20k | $100k (exactly $99,850) | SC Jogos |
 | NEKO-NIN exHeart 2 | older | $9.99 | 279 95% | 8.4k | $84k (exactly $83,616) | Whirlpool |
 | Meifumado | older | $14.99 | 159 50% | 4.8k | $72k (exactly $71,502) | Old Bit Studio |
 | Secret Agent | older | $24.99 | 26 65% | 780 | $19k (exactly $19,492) | ensemble |
 | Ninja Ordinance | $13.99 | 34 73% | 1.0k | $14k (exactly $14,270) | OneCoin | |
 | Kaodi | $4.99 | 20 85% | 600 | $3.0k (exactly $2,994) | Outlander Co. | |
 | NatsumeRyoran - Romance of Hi-Spec Yoko - | $24.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $1.5k (exactly $1,499) | CyberStep, Inc. | |
 | Assassin's Shadows | $14.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.3k (exactly $1,349) | Noxurtica | |
 | Glusiverse | · EA | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Trusiga |
 | Yogoe Hunter | $6.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | Studio Justice | |
 | Cybernetic Ninja Nuns | $7.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | Good Bad Guy | |
 | シノビザムライ／Shinobi Samurai | $7.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | MIZUBLUE GAMES | |
 | Kittengumi Short: Chapter 0 | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Guarida Games Studio S.L. |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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