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Should I ship a Tabletop Sports game?
Sports + Tabletop
Of 48 developers who shipped a Tabletop Sports game in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 46 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $240 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 35 developers shipped in the last year and 46 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $238 (exactly $238) |
| Top 25% | $2.3k (exactly $2,269) |
| Top 5% | $174k (exactly $173,913) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 48 |
| Released games | 198 |
| Announced | 46 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $3.99 |
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 65% on the market, supply 135% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Sports, Tabletop; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Arcade, Strategy
- Price point
- $3.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, 1990's, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 87% positive over 3,502 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 22 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 46 games are announced against 35 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Sports with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic) 2017 · $6.4M 
Blood Bowl 3 2023 · $3.5M 
Chess Ultra 2017 · $714k 
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition (Classic) 2012 · $623k 
Adorables 2016 · $452k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Blood Bowl 2: Legendary Edition (Classic) | older | $29.99 | 7,077 78% | 212k | $6.4M (exactly $6,367,177) | Cyanide Studios |
| | Blood Bowl 3 | older | $29.99 | 3,940 51% | 118k | $3.5M (exactly $3,544,818) | Cyanide Studio |
| | Chess Ultra | older | $12.99 | 1,832 76% | 55k | $714k (exactly $713,930) | Ripstone |
| | Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition (Classic) | older | $14.99 | 1,386 79% | 42k | $623k (exactly $623,284) | Cyanide Studios |
| | Adorables | older | $29.99 | 502 80% | 15k | $452k (exactly $451,649) | White Rabbit |
 | Poker Club | older | $19.99 | 506 58% | 15k | $303k (exactly $303,448) | Ripstone |
 | NUTMEG! A Nostalgic Deckbuilding Football Manager | $24.99 | 378 89% | 11k | $283k (exactly $283,387) | Sumo Digital, Sumo Digital Academy | |
 | Nine-Ball Roulette | $3.99 | 2,159 88% | 65k | $258k (exactly $258,432) | WaveBox Labs | |
 | Master of Chess | $19.99 | 290 83% | 8.7k | $174k (exactly $173,913) | BRANE | |
 | TOUHOU GENSOU MAHJONG | $34.99 | 109 46% | 3.3k | $114k (exactly $114,417) | D.N.A. Softwares | |
 | Drop Pockets | · EA | $14.99 | 243 83% | 7.3k | $109k (exactly $109,277) | Children of Madness |
 | Racket Pinball | $19.99 | 37 91% | 1.1k | $22k (exactly $22,189) | NiVision | |
 | Break Shoot | $4.99 | 106 99% | 3.2k | $16k (exactly $15,868) | UPTRAND | |
 | Game Pulse Payoff Pitch | $49.95 | 9 66% | 270 | $13k (exactly $13,486) | Fireside Experience | |
 | The Original Moorhuhn Hunt | $2.99 | 140 97% | 4.2k | $13k (exactly $12,558) | Higgs Games GmbH, GeekPit Studio | |
 | Moorhuhn 2 | $4.99 | 31 96% | 930 | $4.6k (exactly $4,641) | Higgs Games GmbH, GeekPit Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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