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Should I ship a Tactical RPG Souls-like?
Souls-like + Tactical RPG
Only 11 developers shipped a Tactical RPG 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, Dwarven Realms, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 20 more are announced, ×6.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $810 against a market of $1.5k. 20 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $450 (exactly $450) |
|---|---|
| Median | $809 (exactly $809) |
| Top 25% | $6.0k (exactly $5,992) |
| Top 5% | $854k (exactly $854,145) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 20 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 1230% on the market, supply 65% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, 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
- Tactical RPG
- 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, Tactical RPG
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 2,955 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 8 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 20 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Souls-like with a different second tag, 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
Dwarven Realms 2024 · $854k 
King of the Bridge 2024 · $150k 
Rugby League Team Manager 3 2020 · $90k 
勇者与亡灵之都 2024 · $75k 
Anima: Gate of Memories - The Nameless Chronicles 2018 · $74k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dwarven Realms | $9.99 | 2,850 81% | 86k | $854k (exactly $854,145) | Crater Studios | |
| | King of the Bridge | older | $2.99 | 1,667 95% | 50k | $150k (exactly $149,530) | Finn Schuuring |
| | Rugby League Team Manager 3 | older | $39.99 | 75 80% | 2.3k | $90k (exactly $89,978) | Alternative Software Ltd |
| | 勇者与亡灵之都 | older | $6.99 | 356 93% | 11k | $75k (exactly $74,653) | grade |
| | Anima: Gate of Memories - The Nameless Chronicles | older | $19.99 | 123 80% | 3.7k | $74k (exactly $73,763) | Anima Project |
 | Metal as Phuk | older | $4.99 | 236 95% | 7.1k | $35k (exactly $35,329) | Crankage Games |
 | Grim Quest - Old School RPG | older | $5.99 | 151 91% | 4.5k | $27k (exactly $27,135) | Monomyth |
 | Another Crusade | older | $19.99 | 39 79% | 1.2k | $23k (exactly $23,388) | Dragon Vein Studios |
 | Ashes of Morgravia | $11.99 | 43 67% | 1.3k | $15k (exactly $15,467) | background blur. | |
 | Magicians And Monsters | older | $5.99 | 68 64% | 2.0k | $12k (exactly $12,220) | 呜噜噜游戏 |
 | Tides of The Endless | · EA | $7.99 | 25 84% | 750 | $6.0k (exactly $5,992) | Shimmer High Sea |
 | Traveler Of Light | · EA | $7.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) | ZENG CHEN |
 | Master Knight | $3.99 | 11 72% | 330 | $1.3k (exactly $1,317) | DIG Games | |
 | Cursebound | · EA | $8.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $809 (exactly $809) | nuuunu |
 | The King of Assassins - The Kingdom | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Faith Studio Team, Rabie Mounther Haddad | |
 | DarkShine | · EA | $3.00 | 5 100% | 150 | $450 (exactly $450) | DScorp |
 | Arena | $2.00 | 6 100% | 180 | $360 (exactly $360) | 30 Minute Games | |
 | Incestuous Affair | $2.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | Alright Peaches Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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