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Should I ship a Survival Horror Spectacle fighter?
Spectacle fighter + Survival Horror
Only 8 developers shipped a Survival Horror Spectacle fighter 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, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 12 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $52k, ×35 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $4.1k; 1 in 20 cleared $23M, ×15809 the market median. Revenue is down 95% on the market; 12 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $4.0k (exactly $4,042) |
|---|---|
| Median | $52k (exactly $52,183) |
| Top 25% | $1.7M (exactly $1,717,156) |
| Top 5% | $24M (exactly $23,682,516) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 12 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $19.99 |
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 100% 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.
- Spectacle fighter
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Survival Horror
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Spectacle fighter, Survival Horror
- Price point
- $19.99 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 $59.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 18,128 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $4.1k. 12 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Spectacle fighter with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Score AttackFair
- + HorrorFair
- + LootPoor odds
- + Character Action GamePoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Sci-fiPoor odds
- + RobotsPoor odds
- + MythologyPoor odds
- + Female ProtagonistPoor odds
- + FightingPoor odds
- + Hack and SlashPoor odds
- + NinjaPoor odds
Comparable games
Onimusha: Way of the Sword 2026 · $24M 
Onee Chanbara ORIGIN 2020 · $2.2M 
Slitterhead 2024 · $1.7M 
Silly Polly Beast 2025 · $1.4M 
Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny 2025 · $597k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Onimusha: Way of the Sword | $69.99 | 11,279 89% | 338k | $24M (exactly $23,682,516) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. | |
| | Onee Chanbara ORIGIN | older | $59.99 | 1,217 75% | 37k | $2.2M (exactly $2,190,235) | Tamsoft |
| | Slitterhead | $49.99 | 1,145 78% | 34k | $1.7M (exactly $1,717,156) | Bokeh Game Studio lnc. | |
| | Silly Polly Beast | $19.99 | 2,278 90% | 68k | $1.4M (exactly $1,366,117) | Anji | |
| | Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny | $29.99 | 663 85% | 20k | $597k (exactly $596,501) | CAPCOM Co., Ltd. | |
 | Vade Retro : Exorcist | older | $6.99 | 921 70% | 28k | $193k (exactly $193,134) | Forceight |
 | Ed-0: Zombie Uprising | older | $29.99 | 211 72% | 6.3k | $190k (exactly $189,837) | LANCARSE |
 | Blood And Zombies | older | $14.99 | 293 58% | 8.8k | $132k (exactly $131,762) | Wild Monkey |
 | Togainu no Chi: True Blood NITRO ARCHIVE | $29.99 | 58 98% | 1.7k | $52k (exactly $52,183) | NITRO PLUS, NITRO CHiRAL | |
 | Death Below | older | $9.99 | 63 58% | 1.9k | $19k (exactly $18,881) | Soft |
 | Phoenix's Faye | $9.99 | 55 76% | 1.7k | $16k (exactly $16,484) | BigFireball | |
 | Slasher | $4.99 | 27 74% | 810 | $4.0k (exactly $4,042) | Horrid Vision LLC | |
 | 3 Hell | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Bekvi | |
 | Vambina | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | KAZX GAMES |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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