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Should I ship a Card Game Action RTS?
Action RTS + Card Game
Only 12 developers shipped a Card Game Action RTS 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, Warlords Under Siege, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×3.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $630, ×0.4 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 19 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper, while revenue is down 85% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $629 (exactly $629) |
| Top 25% | $13k (exactly $12,587) |
| Top 5% | $131k (exactly $130,669) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 22%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Action RTS
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Card Game
- effort 2 / 10 · high · rules engine and card data
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Action RTS, Card Game
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 77% positive over 803 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Action RTS with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + FPSLong shot
- + PuzzleLong shot
- + Turn-Based StrategyPoor odds
- + Turn-Based TacticsPoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Procedural GenerationPoor odds
- + Grand StrategyPoor odds
- + 4XPoor odds
Comparable games
WARCANA 2024 · $226k 
Warlords Under Siege 2025 · $131k 
Forest Heroes 2025 · $83k 
Warena 2026 · $13k 
Tactics Greed 2024 · $7.2k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | WARCANA | older | $16.99 | 443 62% | 13k | $226k (exactly $225,797) | 1000 Orks |
| | Warlords Under Siege | $9.99 | 436 77% | 13k | $131k (exactly $130,669) | RedKar Devs | |
| | Forest Heroes | $9.99 | 278 83% | 8.3k | $83k (exactly $83,317) | Hoochoo Game Studios | |
| | Warena | $9.99 | 42 52% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $12,587) | Part Time Monkey | |
| | Tactics Greed | older | $9.99 | 24 95% | 720 | $7.2k (exactly $7,193) | Browser Land |
 | Grow Empire: Rome | $3.99 | 28 64% | 840 | $3.4k (exactly $3,352) | Games Station | |
 | Insectum - Epic Battles of Bugs | $9.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | DevilishGames, Famosa by Giochi Preziosi | |
 | Kingslayer: The First Assassin | older | $0.99 | 37 100% | 1.1k | $1.1k (exactly $1,099) | Old School Vibes |
 | Landmark Battle | · EA | $6.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | Poetic Games |
 | Starshield | $2.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | IBELF Studios | |
 | Loop Firefighters | $2.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | Darius games | |
 | Seekers of Darkness | older | $2.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | BakoApps, Feynman System Co., Ltd |
 | Paper Mages | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gently Giant LLC | |
 | Hapless | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Zhang Huiqin |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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