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Should I ship a Werewolf Simulation game?
Simulation + Werewolves
Only 9 developers shipped a Werewolf Simulation 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, Anthro Heat, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.5k, ×4.0 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $510; 1 in 20 cleared $560k, ×901 the market median. Revenue is up 8280% on the market; 21 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $505 (exactly $505) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) |
| Top 25% | $42k (exactly $42,085) |
| Top 5% | $566k (exactly $565,911) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.00 |
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 8280% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Simulation
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Werewolves
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Simulation
- Price point
- $5.00 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 $5.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 9,204 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $510. 21 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Simulation with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVStrong odds
- + Escape RoomStrong odds
- + World War IFair
- + Job SimulatorFair
- + LGBTQ+Fair
- + PinballFair
- + Female ProtagonistFair
- + BirdsFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + MusicFair
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + ProgrammingFair
Comparable games
KeeperRL 2024 · $1.0M 
Anthro Heat 2025 · $566k 
Necrosmith 2022 · $438k 
Night is Coming 2025 · EA · $290k 
The Seven Realms - Realm 1: Terran 2022 · $212k | 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 |
| | Anthro Heat | $29.99 | 629 92% | 19k | $566k (exactly $565,911) | Blue Lizard Studios | |
| | Necrosmith | older | $2.99 | 4,885 85% | 147k | $438k (exactly $438,185) | Alawar |
| | Night is Coming | · EA | $24.99 | 387 59% | 12k | $290k (exactly $290,134) | Wild Forest Studio |
| | The Seven Realms - Realm 1: Terran | older | $9.99 | 708 81% | 21k | $212k (exactly $212,188) | SeptCloud Games |
 | Werewolves Within™ | older | $19.99 | 135 65% | 4.1k | $81k (exactly $80,960) | Ubisoft |
 | Pomberito | older | $5.99 | 427 93% | 13k | $77k (exactly $76,732) | Lara the Pitbull |
 | A College of Thirst & Claws | · EA | $11.99 | 117 73% | 3.5k | $42k (exactly $42,085) | SeptCloud Games |
 | Barking from the Dark | $3.99 | 197 88% | 5.9k | $24k (exactly $23,581) | shoftArt | |
 | EmyLiveShow: Dragon & Mistresses Tale | older | $6.99 | 42 76% | 1.3k | $8.8k (exactly $8,807) | Team Emily |
 | Al Mara Academy | $6.99 | 12 66% | 360 | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) | Quiet Coven Games | |
 | Hunter Hunted | $5.00 | 8 100% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,200) | Chthonic Chrome Studio | |
 | Cozy Night | $0.99 | 17 100% | 510 | $505 (exactly $505) | MaintainGames | |
 | Part Of My Heart | $2.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Dee Odd Games | |
 | Huiyu Undercover | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Huiyu, www.huiyu.ai |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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