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Should I ship a Rhythm Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + Rhythm
Only 11 developers shipped a Rhythm 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, Dead as Disco, 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, ×2.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240, ×0.2 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $150. 15 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.5 per shipper, while revenue is down 85% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $148 (exactly $148) |
|---|---|
| Median | $240 (exactly $240) |
| Top 25% | $38k (exactly $37,775) |
| Top 5% | $9.3M (exactly $9,261,794) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 85% on the market, supply 20% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 9%, 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
- Rhythm
- effort 3 / 10 · medium · audio sync, timing precision and music rights
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Spectacle fighter, Rhythm
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 96% positive over 13,142 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 7 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Spectacle fighter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + 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
Hi-Fi RUSH 2023 · $25M 
Dead as Disco 2026 · EA · $9.3M 
No Straight Roads: Encore Edition 2021 · $1.4M 
Music Racer 2018 · $199k 
ADEN 2024 · $181k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Hi-Fi RUSH | older | $29.99 | 27,454 97% | 824k | $25M (exactly $24,700,364) | Tango Gameworks |
| | Dead as Disco | · EA | $24.99 | 12,354 96% | 371k | $9.3M (exactly $9,261,794) | Brain Jar Games, Inc. |
| | No Straight Roads: Encore Edition | older | $24.99 | 1,813 89% | 54k | $1.4M (exactly $1,359,206) | Metronomik |
| | Music Racer | older | $1.99 | 3,332 87% | 100k | $199k (exactly $198,920) | AbstractArt |
| | ADEN | $8.99 | 670 96% | 20k | $181k (exactly $180,699) | takayakata | |
 | Hell Division | older | $13.99 | 191 83% | 5.7k | $80k (exactly $80,163) | Quacky Games |
 | The Wraith of the Galaxy | · EA older | $11.99 | 161 81% | 4.8k | $58k (exactly $57,912) | Whale Rock Games |
 | Space Channel 5 VR Kinda Funky News Flash! | older | $24.99 | 74 94% | 2.2k | $55k (exactly $55,478) | Grounding Inc. |
 | God of Rock | older | $29.99 | 54 50% | 1.6k | $49k (exactly $48,584) | Maximum Entertainment |
 | Electro Bop Boxing League | $14.99 | 84 79% | 2.5k | $38k (exactly $37,775) | Developer Dob | |
 | Pattaya Simulator | $8.99 | 22 90% | 660 | $5.9k (exactly $5,933) | N-nic Studio | |
 | String Theory | $13.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $2.1k (exactly $2,098) | ZHANGHAILONG | |
 | 不思議な世界の観光日記Ⅱ～パクルワールドとセジカの逆襲～ | $7.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | 不思議な世界の観光日記製作委員会 | |
 | GeoBoxer | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Phenomaker | |
 | 我的刀盾 | $0.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $148 (exactly $148) | 庇护所游戏公社 | |
 | Stay in the rhythm | · EA | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Game Virgo |
 | Bushidon't: Rhythm battles and the unnecessarily long subtitle | · EA | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | UnbiasedArcade |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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