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Should I ship a Tactical RPG Survival Horror?
Survival Horror + Tactical RPG
Only 9 developers shipped a Tactical RPG Survival Horror 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, Silent North, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 24 more are announced, ×24 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $360 against a market of $630. 24 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $4.5k (exactly $4,497) |
| Top 5% | $60k (exactly $59,970) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 24 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 90% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 4%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Survival Horror
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Tactical RPG
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Survival Horror, Tactical RPG
- Price point
- $3.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 72% positive over 2,021 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 24 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×24 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Survival Horror with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + FMVFair
- + DrivingFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + IncrementalFair
- + SnowFair
- + SportsFair
- + Outbreak SimFair
- + 3D PlatformerFair
- + Boomer ShooterFair
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + LGBTQ+Poor odds
- + Spectacle fighterPoor odds
Comparable games
Lakeview Valley 2019 · $319k 
Flesh Eaters 2016 · $129k 
Silent North 2025 · EA · $60k 
Outbreak: Contagious Memories 2022 · $27k 
Nayati River 2021 · $12k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Lakeview Valley | older | $14.99 | 710 82% | 21k | $319k (exactly $319,287) | Roope Tamminen |
| | Flesh Eaters | older | $4.99 | 862 73% | 26k | $129k (exactly $129,041) | S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L. |
| | Silent North | · EA | $19.99 | 100 29% | 3.0k | $60k (exactly $59,970) | Combat Waffle Studios |
| | Outbreak: Contagious Memories | older | $29.99 | 30 63% | 900 | $27k (exactly $26,991) | Dead Drop Studios LLC |
| | Nayati River | older | $4.99 | 79 63% | 2.4k | $12k (exactly $11,826) | Worlds To Play |
 | Throw Anything | older | $16.99 | 21 85% | 630 | $11k (exactly $10,704) | Visual Light |
 | Das Geisterschiff / The Ghost Ship | older | $9.99 | 30 83% | 900 | $9.0k (exactly $8,991) | Graverobber Foundation |
 | Paracom | $10.99 | 21 90% | 630 | $6.9k (exactly $6,924) | Steel Widow Klan | |
 | Wooden House | older | $0.99 | 158 41% | 4.7k | $4.7k (exactly $4,693) | GDNomaD |
 | Downward Spear | · EA | $14.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $4.5k (exactly $4,497) | imakegame software |
 | 鬼灵的冒险GUILING's Adventure | $1.99 | 54 94% | 1.6k | $3.2k (exactly $3,224) | 硅晶石工作室Sicrystal Studio | |
 | J-Room | $3.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $359 (exactly $359) | P6Game | |
 | Paranormal Home Invaders | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Jaxon Cole | |
 | The Soul Inside Us | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | IV Games | |
 | Infinite Zombie Tide | · EA | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | LZYX |
 | Dark Cross | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | kataitai |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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