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Should I ship a Werewolf Stealth game?
Stealth + Werewolves
Only 9 developers shipped a Werewolf Stealth game 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, Project Werewulf, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $200, ×0.3 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120. 18 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper, while revenue is down 85% on the market.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $200 (exactly $200) |
| Top 25% | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) |
| Top 5% | $700k (exactly $699,967) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 85% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 31%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Stealth
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Werewolves
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Stealth
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 75% positive over 4,056 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 6 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 18 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Stealth with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + JRPGFair
- + World War IIPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + WargamePoor odds
- + DinosaursPoor odds
- + Gun CustomizationPoor odds
- + Base BuildingPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + MilitaryPoor odds
- + WarPoor odds
Comparable games
Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood 2022 · $1.3M 
Project Werewulf 2025 · $700k 
The Matriarch 2022 · $108k 
Lycans 2023 · $46k 
Barking from the Dark 2026 · $24k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood | older | $29.99 | 1,463 69% | 44k | $1.3M (exactly $1,316,261) | Cyanide Studio |
| | Project Werewulf | $29.99 | 778 83% | 23k | $700k (exactly $699,967) | FTRGameStudio | |
| | The Matriarch | older | $4.99 | 724 75% | 22k | $108k (exactly $108,383) | Chewa |
| | Lycans | older | $4.99 | 309 91% | 9.3k | $46k (exactly $46,257) | Onu Games |
| | Barking from the Dark | $3.99 | 197 88% | 5.9k | $24k (exactly $23,581) | shoftArt | |
 | Shadow Ninja: Apocalypse | older | $4.99 | 153 55% | 4.6k | $23k (exactly $22,904) | Boogygames Studios |
 | Vox Populi Vox Dei 2 | older | $2.99 | 246 82% | 7.4k | $22k (exactly $22,066) | Great Cogs |
 | Guise Of The Wolf | older | $2.99 | 119 36% | 3.6k | $11k (exactly $10,674) | FUN Creators |
 | Jack & Detectives - A Silent Social Detection Game - | older | $4.99 | 52 75% | 1.6k | $7.8k (exactly $7,784) | Curiouspark |
 | Daughter of The Void | · EA | $9.99 | 15 100% | 450 | $4.5k (exactly $4,496) | Shaybabe |
 | MeMic | $7.99 | 11 63% | 330 | $2.6k (exactly $2,637) | OnlineKingdom | |
 | 666 Malevolence Lane | $6.66 | 1 100% | 30 | $200 (exactly $200) | Bearly_A_Studio | |
 | Beyond the Eyes | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Sapphirus Production | |
 | Silent Howl | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Yorbi | |
 | The Evil Inside | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Danny Boyd | |
 | Dead Slayers | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | JINI SOFT |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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