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Should I ship a Procedural Generation Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + Procedural Generation
Only 8 developers shipped a Procedural Generation 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, Poetry of Blood: Eclipse, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×5.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.8k against a market of $1.5k. 15 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.8k (exactly $1,800) |
| Top 25% | $103k (exactly $103,431) |
| Top 5% | $183k (exactly $182,578) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 15 |
| 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 down 10% on the market, supply 40% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, 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
- Procedural Generation
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Spectacle fighter, Procedural Generation
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $4.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 32,048 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Spectacle fighter with a different second tag, 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
Tribes of Midgard 2021 · $10M 
DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION 2023 · $1.1M 
Samurai Bringer 2022 · $303k 
Ed-0: Zombie Uprising 2023 · $190k 
Poetry of Blood: Eclipse 2024 · EA · $183k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Tribes of Midgard | older | $19.99 | 17,465 76% | 524k | $10M (exactly $10,473,760) | Norsfell |
| | DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION | older | $2.99 | 12,437 94% | 373k | $1.1M (exactly $1,115,599) | Agafonoff |
| | 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 |
| | Poetry of Blood: Eclipse | · EA | $14.99 | 406 91% | 12k | $183k (exactly $182,578) | ZeroGameStudio |
 | Hordes of Hunger | $14.99 | 230 72% | 6.9k | $103k (exactly $103,431) | Hyperstrange | |
 | Food Chain | · EA older | $7.99 | 69 59% | 2.1k | $17k (exactly $16,539) | Kozhakov |
 | MECH PUNK | older | $4.99 | 85 74% | 2.6k | $13k (exactly $12,724) | Mr. Pink |
 | BOBR KURWA | older | $2.99 | 121 76% | 3.6k | $11k (exactly $10,854) | SmoochGM |
 | Witch Epoch | older | $24.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $9.0k (exactly $8,996) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Ash & Adam's GOBSMACKED | $4.99 | 37 86% | 1.1k | $5.5k (exactly $5,539) | Ash & Adam's Games | |
 | Taram Baba | $4.00 | 15 93% | 450 | $1.8k (exactly $1,800) | Sofa Interactive | |
 | Ritualist | $2.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $897 (exactly $897) | SHARQ IT LAB | |
 | CHAT CHAMPIONS | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Fabio Biancarelli, FLEX$ Studios | |
 | Evolution of Species 2: Online | $2.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | Evolution of Games | |
 | One Step One Mistake | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | t-tech-fun |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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