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Should I ship a Post-apocalyptic Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + Post-apocalyptic
Only 13 developers shipped a Post-apocalyptic 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, 1348 Ex Voto, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 35 more are announced, ×5.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $270, ×0.2 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $180. 35 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.8 per shipper, while revenue is up 80% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $180 (exactly $180) |
|---|---|
| Median | $269 (exactly $269) |
| Top 25% | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) |
| Top 5% | $529k (exactly $528,538) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 35 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 80% on the market, supply 15% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 6%, 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
- Post-apocalyptic
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Spectacle fighter
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 56% positive over 867 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $180. All of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 35 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.8 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
NieR:Automata™ 2017 · $138M 
1348 Ex Voto 2026 · $529k 
Project MIKHAIL: A Muv-Luv War Story 2024 · $423k 
Slave Zero X 2024 · $328k 
Ultra Age 2022 · $196k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | NieR:Automata™ | older | $39.99 | 115,103 88% | 3.5M | $138M (exactly $138,089,069) | Square Enix, PlatinumGames Inc. |
| | 1348 Ex Voto | $24.99 | 705 53% | 21k | $529k (exactly $528,538) | Sedleo | |
| | Project MIKHAIL: A Muv-Luv War Story | older | $19.99 | 706 54% | 21k | $423k (exactly $423,388) | aNCHOR Inc., fuzz, Inc. |
| | Slave Zero X | older | $24.99 | 438 75% | 13k | $328k (exactly $328,369) | Poppy Works |
| | Ultra Age | older | $24.99 | 262 80% | 7.9k | $196k (exactly $196,421) | Next Stage Inc., Visual DART Co., Ltd |
 | Blood And Zombies | older | $14.99 | 293 58% | 8.8k | $132k (exactly $131,762) | Wild Monkey |
 | Crazy Flasher 7 Mercenary Empire(stand-alone Version) | older | $3.99 | 261 52% | 7.8k | $31k (exactly $31,242) | Andy Law |
 | Reptiles: In Hunt | older | $9.99 | 97 57% | 2.9k | $29k (exactly $29,071) | Corpix Games |
 | Kijutsu Rider | $9.99 | 95 56% | 2.9k | $28k (exactly $28,472) | OmegaMechAnimations | |
 | T.D.Z. 3 Dark Way of Stalker | older | $5.99 | 71 76% | 2.1k | $13k (exactly $12,759) | Team GZ |
 | Ash & Adam's GOBSMACKED | $4.99 | 37 86% | 1.1k | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) | Ash & Adam's Games | |
 | 1989 After the War | $4.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | SEEP | |
 | Mutant Rage | · EA | $19.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Animas Games |
 | Devastablance. Mountain Brotherhood | $3.00 | 3 100% | 90 | $270 (exactly $270) | Shvap Games Studio | |
 | SICKO SANCTUM 2 | $2.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | Jake Stevenson | |
 | Skateballers | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | Istrebitel RX2 | |
 | JUMPING JUMP NINJA | · EA | $6.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | TeamZ.co.,Ltd |
 | Soldiers vs Zombies: Tower Defense | · EA | $5.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Hard Shark Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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