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Should I ship a God Game Action RTS?
Action RTS + God Game
Only 5 developers shipped a God 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, ダンジョンに生息だ！, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced, ×14 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $7.8k against a market of $1.5k. 14 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $7.8k (exactly $7,759) |
| Top 25% | $13k (exactly $12,587) |
| Top 5% | $27k (exactly $26,846) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 75% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 28%, 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
- God Game
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Action RTS, God Game
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $11.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 74% positive over 1,284 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 14 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×14 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
Vade Retro : Exorcist 2022 · $193k 
Gods Against Machines 2024 · $33k 
ダンジョンに生息だ！ 2025 · $27k 
Scarecropia 2025 · $13k 
Battle Craft 2023 · $8.6k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Vade Retro : Exorcist | older | $6.99 | 921 70% | 28k | $193k (exactly $193,134) | Forceight |
| | Gods Against Machines | older | $11.99 | 91 84% | 2.7k | $33k (exactly $32,733) | Silver Eye Studios |
| | ダンジョンに生息だ！ | $7.99 | 112 90% | 3.4k | $27k (exactly $26,846) | ドクローネ | |
| | Scarecropia | $9.99 | 42 88% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $12,587) | JYP Studio | |
| | Battle Craft | older | $17.99 | 16 81% | 480 | $8.6k (exactly $8,635) | Yaremchuk |
 | Idle Together | $6.99 | 37 75% | 1.1k | $7.8k (exactly $7,759) | Eragone | |
 | Territory: Animals Genetic Strategy | older | $6.99 | 34 58% | 1.0k | $7.1k (exactly $7,130) | Simplemole |
 | TRIBAL "The 12 Gates" | older | $24.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $6.7k (exactly $6,747) | Tribal.Games |
 | Kring | older | $4.99 | 20 95% | 600 | $3.0k (exactly $2,994) | IV Productions |
 | Ninja | older | $10.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $659 (exactly $659) | Yaremchuk |
 | Interpret | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 臻新 | |
 | Significant | $34.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Significant |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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