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Should I ship a Thriller Souls-like?
Souls-like + Thriller
Only 9 developers shipped a Thriller 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, Escape from Yandere, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced, ×2.6 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 $210. 13 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 per shipper, while revenue is up 5355% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $210 (exactly $210) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
| Top 25% | $22k (exactly $21,856) |
| Top 5% | $200k (exactly $199,850) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 32 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 5355% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, 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
- Thriller
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Souls-like
- Price point
- $5.99 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 $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 2,162 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $210. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 13 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 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
Escape from Yandere 2026 · $200k 
勇者与亡灵之都 2024 · $75k 
Death Frame 2025 · $26k 
Nitroglycerine! 2025 · $22k 
Truth of Beauty Witch -Marine's treasure ship- 2023 · $15k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Escape from Yandere | $4.99 | 1,335 75% | 40k | $200k (exactly $199,850) | VorhGames | |
| | 勇者与亡灵之都 | older | $6.99 | 356 93% | 11k | $75k (exactly $74,653) | grade |
| | Death Frame | $14.99 | 57 98% | 1.7k | $26k (exactly $25,633) | EpiXR Games UG | |
| | Nitroglycerine! | $4.99 | 146 86% | 4.4k | $22k (exactly $21,856) | Avoidance | |
| | Truth of Beauty Witch -Marine's treasure ship- | older | $4.99 | 102 92% | 3.1k | $15k (exactly $15,269) | ImCyan |
 | Full Quiet | older | $9.99 | 31 80% | 930 | $9.3k (exactly $9,291) | Retrotainment Games |
 | Los Penguinos | older | $4.99 | 57 80% | 1.7k | $8.5k (exactly $8,533) | Hero, ShLeks |
 | 絶叫死人（Zombie Scream） | older | $5.99 | 42 69% | 1.3k | $7.5k (exactly $7,547) | ImCyan |
 | Jin Conception | older | $14.99 | 10 20% | 300 | $4.5k (exactly $4,497) | Jin Wave Studio LLC |
 | Eruption 爆发 | · EA older | $4.99 | 26 84% | 780 | $3.9k (exactly $3,892) | DBH |
 | SKUF BACKROOMS | $0.99 | 78 58% | 2.3k | $2.3k (exactly $2,317) | akhsotoen | |
 | CORPOREAL | $6.99 | 5 40% | 150 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Neutron Studios LLC | |
 | Alchemists | · EA | $5.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $719 (exactly $719) | WASD Game Studio |
 | 301 Warriors | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | Qingdao HuiChengSen Network Technology… (Qingdao HuiChengSen Network Technology Co.,Ltd.) | |
 | Maiden | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | DIRECTOR'S CUT | |
 | Hades Hinderance | $10.50 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Tony Irvine |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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