Here's how you can tackle game balancing and difficulty tuning in a niche gaming genre.

to balance your game, you need to know your game, play it, understand it, seeing that after a while when you become professional in your game you need to realize that not all players play exactly like you - that is why it's also important to look both at aggregated data & individual player stats from bottom/top players and segment them, build an algorithm that help you create different difficulty level per segment.

To balance and tune the difficulty of a game, you first need to understand the genre. Each genre has unique mechanics and player expectations. Knowing what players enjoy and find challenging in similar games will help you set the right difficulty levels for your game.

Listening to players is crucial for balancing a game. Players can provide valuable insights into what feels too easy or too hard. By gathering and analyzing this feedback, you can make informed adjustments to improve the game's balance and overall enjoyment.

Player feedback is essential when balancing a game, but it can also be extremely hard to parse. Focus on the features that cause poor player experiences. Features that make people frustrated or churn. Balance is slightly overrated, as long as there are adequate foil strategies and people are happy, the game will be fun.

Keep testing the game over and over. Each round of testing uncovers new things to fix or improve, helping you refine the game continuously.

Key is the details. Like all the details.. This is quite different than changing the difficulty on your casual or mid core games. Niche genres has niche players, with niche needs. But most importantly, they have ''niche'' pleasures. if we said ''niche'' enough, let see the tip: Go through every second of your game in fine detail. Like adding a pixel of blood to your game in 8 bit, or a character and motive stability on your narrative. These players will dig in everywhere and they tend to like what they see. Thats how a 13 hr game designed games getss like 113 hrs play time. Attention to Details!