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Should I ship a Robot Party-Based RPG?
Party-Based RPG + Robots
Only 14 developers shipped a Robot Party-Based RPG 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, The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $720, ×1.1 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $450; 1 in 20 cleared $1.2M, ×1917 the market median. Revenue is flat on the market; 21 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $719 (exactly $719) |
| Top 25% | $151k (exactly $151,124) |
| Top 5% | $1.2M (exactly $1,203,999) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 6 / 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 flat on the market, supply 25% fewer 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.
- Party-Based RPG
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Robots
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Party-Based RPG; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry RPG, Adventure, Open World
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $59.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Anime, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $59.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 1,658 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 8 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Party-Based RPG with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Board GameFair
- + Point & ClickFair
- + 2D PlatformerFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Martial ArtsPoor odds
- + Dating SimPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + BuildingPoor odds
- + AutomationPoor odds
- + Turn-BasedPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + IncrementalPoor odds
Comparable games
SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech 2019 · $1.5M 
The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II 2025 · $1.2M 
NITRO GEN OMEGA 2026 · $358k 
Botworld Odyssey 2024 · $209k 
Chaos Front 2026 · $151k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | SteamWorld Quest: Hand of Gilgamech | older | $24.99 | 1,953 87% | 59k | $1.5M (exactly $1,464,164) | Image & Form Games |
| | The Legend of Heroes: Trails through Daybreak II | $59.99 | 669 83% | 20k | $1.2M (exactly $1,203,999) | Nihon Falcom, PH3 GmbH | |
| | NITRO GEN OMEGA | $29.99 | 398 83% | 12k | $358k (exactly $358,081) | DESTINYbit | |
| | Botworld Odyssey | $25.00 | 279 76% | 8.4k | $209k (exactly $209,250) | Featherweight Games | |
| | Chaos Front | $19.99 | 252 59% | 7.6k | $151k (exactly $151,124) | Han Zhiyu | |
 | My Mad Scientist Roommate Turned Me Into Her Personal Robotic Battle Maiden?!? | older | $29.99 | 32 90% | 960 | $29k (exactly $28,790) | Lached Up Games |
 | Frameland: A Binary Tale | $9.99 | 48 97% | 1.4k | $14k (exactly $14,386) | Team Frameland | |
 | Armed Emeth | older | $14.99 | 20 75% | 600 | $9.0k (exactly $8,994) | Hit-Point Co.,Ltd. |
 | LIFELIKE | · EA older | $9.99 | 13 92% | 390 | $3.9k (exactly $3,896) | mntsstudio LLC |
 | We Are Live | older | $4.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | Ventus Games |
 | Puppet Seed | $8.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | Moosopolis Games | |
 | Crossed Commands: Collision | · EA | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | SlightQuartz |
 | Night of the Stars | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Aldorlea Games | |
 | アルテミスパール～海賊姫ルビナと幻の秘宝～ | $16.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $510 (exactly $510) | とらいあんぐる！ | |
 | AUTO DERBY CASINO | $4.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | numberonescientist |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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