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Should I ship a Nature Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + Nature
Only 9 developers shipped a Nature Spectacle fighter 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, Utawarerumono: ZAN 2, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 27 more are announced, ×5.4 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300, ×0.2 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 27 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.4 per shipper, while revenue is up 890% on the market.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $299 (exactly $299) |
| Top 25% | $4.3k (exactly $4,317) |
| Top 5% | $106k (exactly $105,574) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 27 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 890% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 3%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Spectacle fighter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Nature
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Spectacle fighter
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $39.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 79% positive over 1,444 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 27 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.4 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Spectacle fighter with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Score AttackFair
- + HorrorFair
- + LootPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + Survival HorrorPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + MythologyPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + FightingPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
Comparable games
Alice Escaped! 2023 · $184k 
LEVEL UP 80 2024 · $119k 
Utawarerumono: ZAN 2 2026 · $106k 
Skidaddle Skidoodle 2024 · $85k 
King of Bones 2025 · $76k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Alice Escaped! | older | $19.99 | 307 82% | 9.2k | $184k (exactly $184,108) | illuCalab |
| | LEVEL UP 80 | older | $39.99 | 99 79% | 3.0k | $119k (exactly $118,770) | Galactic Geckon |
| | Utawarerumono: ZAN 2 | $39.99 | 88 82% | 2.6k | $106k (exactly $105,574) | AQUAPLUS | |
| | Skidaddle Skidoodle | older | $29.99 | 94 91% | 2.8k | $85k (exactly $84,572) | Galactic Geckon |
| | King of Bones | $7.99 | 316 85% | 9.5k | $76k (exactly $75,745) | Gluten Free Games | |
 | Firelight Fantasy: Vengeance | older | $13.99 | 142 79% | 4.3k | $60k (exactly $59,597) | Quacky Games |
 | The Wolf | older | $9.99 | 186 68% | 5.6k | $56k (exactly $55,744) | Good Luck Games |
 | Reptiles: In Hunt | older | $9.99 | 97 57% | 2.9k | $29k (exactly $29,071) | Corpix Games |
 | Blast Beat | older | $19.99 | 46 93% | 1.4k | $28k (exactly $27,586) | gz.inc |
 | Food Chain | · EA older | $7.99 | 69 59% | 2.1k | $17k (exactly $16,539) | Kozhakov |
 | Grind Rush | $15.99 | 9 66% | 270 | $4.3k (exactly $4,317) | AND GEAR | |
 | Valenium | $10.99 | 5 20% | 150 | $1.6k (exactly $1,648) | Need3RD | |
 | Eternal Flame:Romance Dawn | $4.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Emre Erensoy | |
 | It's Hard To Be A Support | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Torcular | |
 | Sword Duel | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | SwordDuel Games | |
 | Gorilla Smash | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Lavaworks | |
 | Forest Fighters | $11.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Lurix dev studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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