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Niches / Action Roguelike + Top-Down
Action Roguelike + Top-Down
Games tagged both Action Roguelike and Top-Down: 325 indie paid launches, 13 of them earned $100k+ in their first year.
Showing Action Roguelike + Top-Down priced $10 to $20.
The pair's chance of a $100k+ first year beside each of its two tags, ranked like a high-score table, with typical earnings and the launches behind every figure.
Action Roguelike + Top-Down trails Action Roguelike and beats Top-Down: 7 of its 27 launches earned $100k+ priced $10 to $20, against 26.9 in 100 for Action Roguelike and 14.0 in 100 for Top-Down.
Small sample: 27 launches, 7 hits.
Each circle is one tag, sized by its launches, and the gold overlap is exactly this pair. Click a part to read it. Price changes the odds more than genre does (under $5: 0.5 in 100 launches earned $100k+; $20 to $40: 42.4 in 100), so read it within a price band.
The overlap is this niche: the 27 games tagged both Action Roguelike and Top-Down priced $10 to $20. 25.9 in 100 of them earned $100k+, against 27.0 for Action Roguelike-only games and 12.4 for Top-Down-only games, so the mix trails Action Roguelike alone and beats Top-Down alone.
Both: 27 games priced $10 to $20; 25.9 in 100 earned $100k+, typical first-year earnings $10,624.
Circle areas follow launch counts; the gold overlap is exactly the pair's 27 launches. The outer parts are each tag's launches minus the pair's, so their chance is exact; their typical earnings are not computed yet.
Who leads this pair and each of its tags. Free until launch: one click opens the card. The full comparables list (nearest hits by tag pair, price and launch year) is not computed yet, and the card says so.
Top earner, share of the moneyFree until launch
Lens checkHolds in 3 of 3. Standard: the yardstick. West-facing view: holds. Without the breakout: holds. Last 18 months: holds.
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Nearest hits (similar games that earned $100k+, matched by tag pair, price and launch year): not computed yet.
Filters do not apply here yet. Leaders and shares are for all prices and the Standard view; per price band and per lens they are not computed yet.
The same figures with three kinds of games set aside: those with a mostly Chinese audience, the single biggest earner, and everything older than 18 months.
Action Roguelike + Top-Down holds in 3 of 3: every lens keeps the chance and typical earnings within a quarter of the standard figures.
| This pair | BaseStandardevery launch | West-facing view306 of 325 launches | Without the breakout324 of 325 launches | Last 18 months191 of 325 launches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launches counted | 32513 hits | 30611 hits | 32412 hits | 1918 hits |
| Earned $100k+ | 4.0 in 1001 in 25 | 3.6 in 1001 in 28 | 3.7 in 1001 in 27 | 4.2 in 1001 in 24 |
| Typical first-year earnings | $303top tenth $13,753+ | $303 | $303 | $283 |
| Chance against standard | the yardstick | -10.0%0.4 fewer in 100 | -7.5%0.3 fewer in 100 | +5.0%0.2 more in 100 |
| Typical against standard | the yardstick | 0.0%no change | 0.0%no change | -6.6%$20 less |
| Does it hold? | The base view | Holds | Holds | Holds |
Every indie paid launch tagged both Action Roguelike and Top-Down, 6 to 30 months old: 325 launches.
Games mostly reviewed outside China. Drops games whose audience is mostly Chinese, meaning 35% or more of their reviews are in Simplified Chinese: 19 of 325 launches here. Review language is measured for games with 2,000+ reviews; smaller games are guessed from their names.
Drops the single biggest earner, Shape of Dreams (36.6% of the money): 324 launches left.
Keeps only launches 18 months old or newer: 191 of 325.
Action Roguelike holds in 3 of 3: every lens keeps the chance and typical earnings within a quarter of the standard figures.
| Action Roguelike | BaseStandardevery launch | West-facing view1,862 of 1,947 launches | Without the breakout1,946 of 1,947 launches | Last 18 months1,082 of 1,947 launches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launches counted | 1,947119 hits | 1,862110 hits | 1,946118 hits | 1,08257 hits |
| Earned $100k+ | 6.1 in 1001 in 16 | 5.9 in 1001 in 17 | 6.1 in 1001 in 16 | 5.3 in 1001 in 19 |
| Typical first-year earnings | $645top tenth $41,876+ | $666 | $645 | $534 |
| Chance against standard | the yardstick | -3.3%0.2 fewer in 100 | 0.0%no change | -13.1%0.8 fewer in 100 |
| Typical against standard | the yardstick | +3.3%$21 more | 0.0%no change | -17.2%$111 less |
| Does it hold? | The base view | Holds | Holds | Holds |
Every indie paid launch tagged Action Roguelike, 6 to 30 months old: 1,947 launches.
Games mostly reviewed outside China. Drops games whose audience is mostly Chinese, meaning 35% or more of their reviews are in Simplified Chinese: 85 of 1,947 launches here. Review language is measured for games with 2,000+ reviews; smaller games are guessed from their names.
Drops the single biggest earner, Hades II (33.9% of the money): 1,946 launches left.
Keeps only launches 18 months old or newer: 1,082 of 1,947.
Top-Down is changed recently: Last 18 months moves the answer by more than a quarter. It holds in 2 of 3.
| Top-Down | BaseStandardevery launch | West-facing view1,975 of 2,055 launches | Without the breakout2,054 of 2,055 launches | Last 18 months1,144 of 2,055 launches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launches counted | 2,05561 hits | 1,97554 hits | 2,05460 hits | 1,14432 hits |
| Earned $100k+ | 3.0 in 1001 in 33 | 2.7 in 1001 in 37 | 2.9 in 1001 in 34 | 2.8 in 1001 in 36 |
| Typical first-year earnings | $301top tenth $9,109+ | $303 | $301 | $202 |
| Chance against standard | the yardstick | -10.0%0.3 fewer in 100 | -3.3%0.1 fewer in 100 | -6.7%0.2 fewer in 100 |
| Typical against standard | the yardstick | +0.7%$2 more | 0.0%no change | -32.9%$99 less |
| Does it hold? | The base view | Holds | Holds | Moves the answer |
Every indie paid launch tagged Top-Down, 6 to 30 months old: 2,055 launches.
Games mostly reviewed outside China. Drops games whose audience is mostly Chinese, meaning 35% or more of their reviews are in Simplified Chinese: 80 of 2,055 launches here. Review language is measured for games with 2,000+ reviews; smaller games are guessed from their names.
Drops the single biggest earner, Shape of Dreams (16.8% of the money): 2,054 launches left.
Keeps only launches 18 months old or newer: 1,144 of 2,055.
A lens holds when chance and typical earnings both stay within 25% of standard. Lens figures by price band are not computed yet, so this table is for all prices.
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