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Should I ship a Ninja Turn-Based Combat game?
Turn-Based Combat + Ninja
Only 14 developers shipped a Ninja Turn-Based Combat 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, Half-Demon Shinobi, 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: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $6.0k, ×9.5 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $720; 1 in 20 cleared $400k, ×652 the market median. Revenue is down 65% on the market; 12 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $719 (exactly $719) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.0k (exactly $5,994) |
| Top 25% | $19k (exactly $19,181) |
| Top 5% | $409k (exactly $409,487) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 down 65% on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 24%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Turn-Based Combat
- 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
- Turn-Based Combat
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 1,803 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $720. 9 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 12 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Shogun Showdown 2024 · $2.8M 
RONIN 2015 · $629k 
Half-Demon Shinobi 2024 · $409k 
Mahokenshi - The Samurai Deckbuilder 2023 · $348k 
Sakura Gozen 2026 · $163k | 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 |
| | RONIN | older | $12.99 | 1,613 71% | 48k | $629k (exactly $628,586) | Tomasz Wacławek |
| | Half-Demon Shinobi | $10.99 | 1,242 89% | 37k | $409k (exactly $409,487) | 樹懶叫工作室, 紳士吉娃, Maker製造機 | |
| | Mahokenshi - The Samurai Deckbuilder | older | $24.99 | 464 77% | 14k | $348k (exactly $347,861) | Game Source Studio |
| | Sakura Gozen | $16.99 | 320 96% | 9.6k | $163k (exactly $163,104) | kaniheadcrab | |
 | Tricking 0 | · EA older | $19.99 | 107 89% | 3.2k | $64k (exactly $64,168) | Full-in Studios |
 | Treachery in Beatdown City | older | $19.99 | 72 76% | 2.2k | $43k (exactly $43,178) | NuChallenger, HurakanWorks |
 | Red Ronin | older | $7.99 | 119 87% | 3.6k | $29k (exactly $28,524) | Wired Dreams Studio |
 | Shadowed: The Demon Castle of Ooe | $15.99 | 56 92% | 1.7k | $27k (exactly $26,863) | Lab Rabbit Games ltd | |
 | Disgraced | older | $9.99 | 76 84% | 2.3k | $23k (exactly $22,777) | Corrosive Studios LLC |
 | Arashi Gaiden | $9.99 | 64 95% | 1.9k | $19k (exactly $19,181) | Statera Studio, Wired Dreams Studio | |
 | Ninja Ordinance | $13.99 | 34 73% | 1.0k | $14k (exactly $14,270) | OneCoin | |
 | 戦国英雄譚-Samurai Heroes- | $9.99 | 47 89% | 1.4k | $14k (exactly $14,086) | hizaniya games | |
 | Shogun Curse | $9.99 | 20 60% | 600 | $6.0k (exactly $5,994) | Oh Baby Games | |
 | Nightmarena | $5.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $2.7k (exactly $2,696) | Colo Coko | |
 | Last Shinobi | $8.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | Dark Tomato Studio | |
 | Disintegral | $11.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $719 (exactly $719) | Will Sykes Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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