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Should I ship a Ninja Procedural Generation game?
Procedural Generation + Ninja
Only 5 developers shipped a Ninja Procedural Generation 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, Shadowed: The Demon Castle of Ooe, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced, ×3.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $5.9k against a market of $630. 11 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $809 (exactly $809) |
|---|---|
| Median | $5.9k (exactly $5,850) |
| Top 25% | $7.5k (exactly $7,492) |
| Top 5% | $27k (exactly $26,863) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Procedural Generation
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium 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
- Procedural Generation
- 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 94% positive over 11,281 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $810. 11 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Procedural Generation with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SnowFair
- + Traditional RoguelikeFair
- + DetectiveFair
- + Word GameFair
- + TypingFair
- + IdlerFair
- + LogicFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + Precision PlatformerFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Open World Survival CraftPoor odds
- + TrainsPoor odds
Comparable games
Shogun Showdown 2024 · $2.8M 
Super House of Dead Ninjas 2013 · $882k 
Bing in Wonderland 2023 · $545k 
Samurai Bringer 2022 · $303k 
Ed-0: Zombie Uprising 2023 · $190k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Shogun Showdown | older | $14.99 | 6,197 95% | 186k | $2.8M (exactly $2,786,791) | Roboatino |
| | Super House of Dead Ninjas | older | $19.99 | 1,470 96% | 44k | $882k (exactly $881,559) | Megadev |
| | Bing in Wonderland | older | $8.99 | 2,020 97% | 61k | $545k (exactly $544,794) | Wanba Studio |
| | Samurai Bringer | older | $9.99 | 1,012 87% | 30k | $303k (exactly $303,296) | ALPHAWING Inc. |
| | Ed-0: Zombie Uprising | older | $29.99 | 211 72% | 6.3k | $190k (exactly $189,837) | LANCARSE |
 | Ninja Soul | older | $9.99 | 119 74% | 3.6k | $36k (exactly $35,664) | Ash Game Studio |
 | Straimium Immortaly | older | $6.99 | 157 89% | 4.7k | $33k (exactly $32,923) | caiys |
 | Shadowed: The Demon Castle of Ooe | $15.99 | 56 92% | 1.7k | $27k (exactly $26,863) | Lab Rabbit Games ltd | |
 | Typing Ninja | $9.99 | 25 96% | 750 | $7.5k (exactly $7,492) | Brain Boost Ninja | |
 | Ninja or Die: Shadow of the Sun | older | $14.99 | 14 57% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | Nao Games |
 | Ninja Remix | $5.00 | 39 74% | 1.2k | $5.9k (exactly $5,850) | Hesoyam | |
 | Last Shinobi | $8.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | Dark Tomato Studio | |
 | The Legend of URE | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | James H. Van der Meulen |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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