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Should I ship a Space Souls-like?
Souls-like + Space
Only 15 developers shipped a Space Souls-like 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, PRAGMATA, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 30 more are announced, ×3.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.0k, ×0.7 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $270. 30 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 per shipper, while revenue is down 95% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $270 (exactly $270) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
| Top 25% | $97k (exactly $96,856) |
| Top 5% | $59M (exactly $59,183,134) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 46 |
| Announced | 30 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $13.99 |
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 95% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Souls-like
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Space
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Souls-like
- Price point
- $13.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 95% positive over 34,672 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $270. 7 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 30 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Souls-like with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Dating SimStrong odds
- + Visual NovelFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + JRPGFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + PsychologicalFair
- + Walking SimulatorFair
- + Precision PlatformerLong shot
- + Score AttackLong shot
- + WarPoor odds
- + Turn-Based TacticsPoor odds
- + RomancePoor odds
Comparable games
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ 2019 · $184M 
STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ 2023 · $168M 
PRAGMATA 2026 · $59M 
LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga 2022 · $57M 
STAR WARS™: The Force Unleashed™ II 2010 · $3.5M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ | older | $39.99 | 153,782 88% | 4.6M | $184M (exactly $184,492,265) | Respawn Entertainment |
| | STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ | older | $69.99 | 79,990 71% | 2.4M | $168M (exactly $167,955,003) | Respawn |
| | PRAGMATA | $59.99 | 32,885 96% | 987k | $59M (exactly $59,183,134) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. | |
| | LEGO® Star Wars™: The Skywalker Saga | older | $49.99 | 38,294 90% | 1.1M | $57M (exactly $57,429,512) | TT Games |
| | STAR WARS™: The Force Unleashed™ II | older | $19.99 | 5,854 63% | 176k | $3.5M (exactly $3,510,644) | Aspyr Studios |
 | Scars Above | older | $29.99 | 2,775 77% | 83k | $2.5M (exactly $2,496,668) | Mad Head Games |
 | Moros Protocol | $24.99 | 731 81% | 22k | $548k (exactly $548,031) | Pixel Reign | |
 | Rebel Transmute | older | $19.99 | 243 74% | 7.3k | $146k (exactly $145,727) | Fatal Fawn Games |
 | Somber Echoes | $14.99 | 271 81% | 8.1k | $122k (exactly $121,869) | Rock Pocket Games, Lav Games | |
 | Lumberjacked | $4.99 | 647 83% | 19k | $97k (exactly $96,856) | Inner Realm Studios, Dumb Duck Games | |
 | Adventure of Samsara | $19.99 | 66 89% | 2.0k | $40k (exactly $39,580) | Ilex Games | |
 | Rogue Eclipse | $19.99 | 50 62% | 1.5k | $30k (exactly $29,985) | HUSKRAFTS | |
 | Snack Invaders | · EA | $14.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Whippy Games |
 | Tankiro | $4.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Rmonak | |
 | Gravity Break | · EA | $13.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $839 (exactly $839) | bakspace interactive, Kristian Bak, Dan… (bakspace interactive, Kristian Bak, Daniel Clifton, Nanna Fjord) |
 | Pluto Lost Its Colors | $19.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $600 (exactly $600) | Bile Beans For Biliousness |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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