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Should I ship an Incremental Action RTS?
Action RTS + Incremental
Only 7 developers shipped an Incremental 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, Cannon Clicker, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 7 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $150 in the last 2 years and $240 over 4, against a market of $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build. 5 developers shipped in the last year and 7 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $150 (exactly $150) |
| Top 25% | $505 (exactly $505) |
| Top 5% | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 7 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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
- Incremental
- effort 1 / 10 · high · formulas and upgrade tables
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Action RTS, Incremental
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 393 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 7 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
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
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Kring 2024 · $3.0k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | The Unexpected Quest | older | $12.99 | 166 77% | 5.0k | $65k (exactly $64,690) | Rionix |
| | 扫雷冒险谭2 ~露露姆的冒险~ | older | $9.99 | 92 78% | 2.8k | $28k (exactly $27,572) | CelLab |
| | Age of Goblins | older | $4.99 | 63 87% | 1.9k | $9.4k (exactly $9,431) | Bruno Valla |
| | Starfend | older | $9.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | Ranieri Silva |
| | Kring | older | $4.99 | 20 95% | 600 | $3.0k (exactly $2,994) | IV Productions |
 | Button Pop | older | $10.59 | 6 83% | 180 | $1.9k (exactly $1,906) | Reality Adrift Studio |
 | Evolution of a Mini World: Physics Wonderland | older | $9.99 | 5 40% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | William at Oxford |
 | Cannon Clicker | $5.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $1.4k (exactly $1,438) | Ritual Interactive | |
 | SORALAND | older | $4.99 | 6 33% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | monacrea |
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 | Battow - Mages And Monsters | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | SensualHarvest | |
 | Crystal TD | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 铱恢鸢 | |
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 | Miner Survivor | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | cksiow |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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