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Should I ship a Transhumanist RPG?
RPG + Transhumanism
Of 32 developers who shipped a Transhumanist RPG in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 69 more are announced, ×3.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, level with the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $270; 1 in 20 cleared $5.3M, ×8591 the market median. Revenue is up 170% on the market; 69 games are announced against 22 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $267 (exactly $267) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $5.4k (exactly $5,415) |
| Top 5% | $5.4M (exactly $5,394,841) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 32 |
| Released games | 82 |
| Announced | 69 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 170% on the market, supply 120% more 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.
- RPG
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Transhumanism
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- RPG; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Choices Matter, Adventure, CRPG
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Story Rich, Atmospheric, Lore-Rich
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 20,203 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $270. 9 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 69 games are announced against 22 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided 2016 · $28M 
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut 2013 · $15M 
Caves of Qud 2024 · $11M 
Quasimorph 2026 · $5.4M 
Phoenix Point 2020 · $4.0M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Deus Ex: Mankind Divided | older | $29.99 | 30,709 77% | 921k | $28M (exactly $27,628,887) | Eidos Montreal, Feral Interactive (Linu… (Eidos Montreal, Feral Interactive (Linux/Mac)) |
| | Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Director's Cut | older | $19.99 | 25,392 91% | 762k | $15M (exactly $15,227,582) | Eidos Montreal |
| | Caves of Qud | $29.99 | 11,892 94% | 357k | $11M (exactly $10,699,232) | Freehold Games | |
| | Quasimorph | $24.99 | 7,196 82% | 216k | $5.4M (exactly $5,394,841) | Magnum Scriptum | |
| | Phoenix Point | older | $24.99 | 5,375 73% | 161k | $4.0M (exactly $4,029,637) | Snapshot Games Inc. |
 | Binary Domain | older | $14.99 | 3,567 86% | 107k | $1.6M (exactly $1,604,080) | Devil's Details |
 | Deus Ex: The Fall | older | $9.99 | 3,762 37% | 113k | $1.1M (exactly $1,127,471) | · |
 | Deus Ex: Invisible War | older | $6.99 | 2,199 57% | 66k | $461k (exactly $461,130) | Ion Storm |
 | Lightracer Spark | older | $12.99 | 970 83% | 29k | $378k (exactly $378,009) | Smartmelon Games |
 | Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum | $12.99 | 839 98% | 25k | $327k (exactly $326,958) | nodayshalleraseyou | |
 | Utawarerumono: ZAN 2 | $39.99 | 88 82% | 2.6k | $106k (exactly $105,574) | AQUAPLUS | |
 | Songs of Rats | $14.99 | 50 78% | 1.5k | $22k (exactly $22,485) | Tesseract Games | |
 | how to kill a fly [ H2KAF ] | $9.99 | 71 97% | 2.1k | $21k (exactly $21,279) | Radtel Collective | |
 | Holonoptic | $19.95 | 16 93% | 480 | $9.6k (exactly $9,576) | Glazial | |
 | Imago Season | $9.50 | 19 89% | 570 | $5.4k (exactly $5,415) | Lunar Finch | |
 | New Earth Saga of the New Gods | $9.99 | 18 55% | 540 | $5.4k (exactly $5,395) | FPCGameSoftware | |
 | Posthuman: Guardians vs PSION | $6.99 | 14 42% | 420 | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) | Choice of Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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