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Should I ship a PvP Programming game?
PvP + Programming
Only 5 developers shipped a PvP Programming 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, Adventure Land - The Code MMORPG, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 8 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $14k against a market of $1.5k. 16 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $3.0k (exactly $2,999) |
|---|---|
| Median | $14k (exactly $13,786) |
| Top 25% | $63k (exactly $62,968) |
| Top 5% | $65k (exactly $64,757) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 29 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 300% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- PvP
- effort 8 / 10 · low · authoritative servers, latency compensation, cheating
- Programming
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- PvP, Programming
- Price point
- $14.99 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 67,821 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.0k. 16 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Stormworks: Build and Rescue 2020 · $41M 
Mad Games Tycoon 2 2023 · $5.5M 
Screeps: World 2016 · $1.2M 
Grey Hack 2017 · EA · $1.1M 
GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena 2019 · $380k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Stormworks: Build and Rescue | older | $24.99 | 54,649 90% | 1.6M | $41M (exactly $40,970,355) | Geometa |
| | Mad Games Tycoon 2 | older | $24.99 | 7,355 93% | 221k | $5.5M (exactly $5,514,044) | Eggcode |
| | Screeps: World | older | $19.99 | 1,934 86% | 58k | $1.2M (exactly $1,159,820) | Screeps, LLC |
| | Grey Hack | · EA older | $19.99 | 1,801 90% | 54k | $1.1M (exactly $1,080,060) | Loading Home |
| | GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena | older | $14.99 | 846 87% | 25k | $380k (exactly $380,446) | GFX47 |
 | Homebrew - Patent Unknown | · EA older | $14.99 | 828 71% | 25k | $372k (exactly $372,352) | Copybugpaste |
 | Adventure Land - The Code MMORPG | $14.99 | 144 84% | 4.3k | $65k (exactly $64,757) | Wizard | |
 | Screeps: Arena | $19.99 | 105 82% | 3.2k | $63k (exactly $62,968) | Screeps, LLC | |
 | World Wide Hack | · EA older | $16.99 | 69 60% | 2.1k | $35k (exactly $35,169) | Lotus Innovations |
 | Nurose | · EA older | $9.99 | 90 87% | 2.7k | $27k (exactly $26,973) | Orongto |
 | Echoes of the Architects | $9.99 | 46 80% | 1.4k | $14k (exactly $13,786) | GFX47 | |
 | EZY Virtual TableTop Builder | $24.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $3.0k (exactly $2,999) | Ofizdat | |
 | Clank-Robotics | $6.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) | Clank Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
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