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Should I ship a Sports Action RTS?
Action RTS + Sports
Only 10 developers shipped a Sports 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, REMATCH, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 8 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $410 against a market of $1.5k. 8 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $405 (exactly $405) |
| Top 25% | $539 (exactly $539) |
| Top 5% | $36M (exactly $35,902,528) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 42 |
| Announced | 8 |
| 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 down 80% on the market, supply 35% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, 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
- Sports
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Action RTS, Sports
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 7 games average 70% positive over 39,940 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. 9 in 10 of the 13 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 8 games are announced against 4 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
Comparable games
REMATCH 2025 · $36M 
Waifu Fighter 2022 · $642k 
Soccer With Satan 2023 · $3.3k 
Unbroken K2 2024 · $1.8k 
Rough Rivals 2024 · $1.8k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | REMATCH | $29.99 | 39,905 70% | 1.2M | $36M (exactly $35,902,528) | Sloclap | |
| | Waifu Fighter | older | $7.99 | 2,677 86% | 80k | $642k (exactly $641,677) | Happy Monster Studio |
| | Soccer With Satan | older | $9.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Studio Gauntlet |
| | Unbroken K2 | older | $9.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | KotarosDevgame |
| | Rough Rivals | $5.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.8k (exactly $1,797) | Constantin Roussel | |
 | Finger Football | older | $0.99 | 23 69% | 690 | $683 (exactly $683) | Dejavu Games |
 | Finger Soccer | · EA | $5.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $539 (exactly $539) | Hard Shark Games |
 | Launch Dude | $0.99 | 17 94% | 510 | $505 (exactly $505) | ZERO5GAMES | |
 | BERSERK TANK | $4.50 | 3 66% | 90 | $405 (exactly $405) | WU YU CHENG | |
 | Pirate Runner | older | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | WGI GAMING |
 | Twisted Jam | $4.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Ethan Medjuck | |
 | Gateball - Memuro Championship | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Capial Game Studio | |
 | Significant | $34.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Significant | |
 | Rush or Die | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 朱莹 | |
 | Marathon:Glory Run(V1.0) | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Qingdao Qilin Ark Network Technology Co… (Qingdao Qilin Ark Network Technology Co.,Ltd.) |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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