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Should I ship a Horror Action RTS?
Action RTS + Horror
Only 7 developers shipped a Horror 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, Stoneguard, 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, ×3.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $480, ×0.3 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $300. 19 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 per shipper, while momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games.
| Bottom 30% | $299 (exactly $299) |
|---|---|
| Median | $479 (exactly $479) |
| Top 25% | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) |
| Top 5% | $14k (exactly $13,840) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 150% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, 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
- Horror
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Action RTS
- Price point
- $6.99 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 $8.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 72% positive over 1,146 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 19 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Action RTS with a different setting or mood, 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 
Stoneguard 2026 · EA · $14k 
44 Minutes in Nightmare 2021 · $11k 
国際指定怪異124号 東京廃村 2023 · $7.6k 
America Against Ants 2026 · $4.0k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Vade Retro : Exorcist | older | $6.99 | 921 70% | 28k | $193k (exactly $193,134) | Forceight |
| | Stoneguard | · EA | $6.99 | 66 75% | 2.0k | $14k (exactly $13,840) | Thorn Spire Games |
| | 44 Minutes in Nightmare | older | $7.99 | 47 89% | 1.4k | $11k (exactly $11,266) | loloop |
| | 国際指定怪異124号 東京廃村 | older | $8.99 | 28 89% | 840 | $7.6k (exactly $7,552) | 727 Not Hound |
| | America Against Ants | $14.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) | Aartform Games, Mark Brendan | |
 | The Dark Legacy | $2.99 | 33 69% | 990 | $3.0k (exactly $2,960) | Hollowseed | |
 | Smile, you're being filmed | older | $7.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) | SYBF_Games, BlackCrow |
 | GraveyardGambit | older | $4.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) | Malte Lehmann, Emelie Dahlmeyer |
 | Shoot The Barrel - BING BANG BOOM | · EA older | $14.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.3k (exactly $1,349) | Shoot The Barrel |
 | BackRoomsNew | older | $1.99 | 21 61% | 630 | $1.3k (exactly $1,254) | Medisonas |
 | Tommy's Journal | $7.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | Tanner Donaldson | |
 | Escape Haunted Mansion | · EA | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | BlueAreaEntertainment |
 | Gate | · EA | $12.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | KJ-Kit |
 | Khalco Farm | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Leovigildo Leon |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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