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Should I ship a Vampire Procedural Generation game?
Procedural Generation + Vampires
Only 13 developers shipped a Vampire 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, Touhou ~Red Empress Devil., made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 26 more are announced, ×4.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.1k, ×1.7 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $360; 1 in 20 cleared $110k, ×188 the market median. Revenue is up 1300% on the market; 26 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) |
| Top 25% | $7.0k (exactly $7,015) |
| Top 5% | $118k (exactly $118,129) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 26 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 1300% on the market, supply 15% 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.
- Procedural Generation
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- Vampires
- 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
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 1,060 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 26 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.3 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
KeeperRL 2024 · $1.0M 
Scarlet Tower 2024 · $384k 
Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi 2014 · $142k 
Necroking 2024 · $128k 
Touhou ~Red Empress Devil. 2025 · $118k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | KeeperRL | older | $19.99 | 1,677 83% | 50k | $1.0M (exactly $1,005,697) | Electric Succubi |
| | Scarlet Tower | older | $6.99 | 1,831 81% | 55k | $384k (exactly $383,961) | Pyxeralia LLC |
| | Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malachi | older | $2.99 | 1,581 90% | 47k | $142k (exactly $141,816) | Idol FX |
| | Necroking | older | $4.99 | 857 81% | 26k | $128k (exactly $128,293) | KORO.GAMES |
| | Touhou ~Red Empress Devil. | $8.99 | 438 70% | 13k | $118k (exactly $118,129) | STUDIO POCO | |
 | Hordes of Hunger | $14.99 | 230 72% | 6.9k | $103k (exactly $103,431) | Hyperstrange | |
 | Golden Krone Hotel | older | $9.99 | 313 94% | 9.4k | $94k (exactly $93,806) | Vulgat |
 | Blood Vial | $4.99 | 329 96% | 9.9k | $49k (exactly $49,251) | Dillon Steyl | |
 | Zombies Invasion | older | $24.99 | 23 39% | 690 | $17k (exactly $17,243) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Onychomp : Lush journey | $12.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $7.0k (exactly $7,015) | Howl Studio | |
 | Red Pistol | $9.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) | Ace Horizon Studios | |
 | Boundless AI Fantasy | $9.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $2.4k (exactly $2,398) | João Vitor Andrioli de Souza | |
 | Typingvania | $5.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) | NorikiTech Limited | |
 | DIMENGUARD | $4.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | RayMag | |
 | Slime Survivors | $4.99 | 6 83% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Ancient Ape | |
 | Chess Hunt | $2.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $359 (exactly $359) | 1SoloDevStudio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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