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Should I ship a Top-Down Shooter Action RTS?
Action RTS + Top-Down Shooter
Only 14 developers shipped a Top-Down Shooter 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, Door Kickers 2: Task Force North, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 32 more are announced, ×2.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $4.0k, ×2.7 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $450; 1 in 20 cleared $9.2M, ×6168 the market median. Revenue is up 10% on the market; 32 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $449 (exactly $449) |
|---|---|
| Median | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) |
| Top 25% | $6.5k (exactly $6,473) |
| Top 5% | $9.2M (exactly $9,239,303) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 43 |
| Announced | 32 |
| 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 up 10% on the market, supply 265% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, 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
- Top-Down Shooter
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Action RTS, Top-Down Shooter
- Price point
- $7.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 96% positive over 12,706 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $450. 32 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.9 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
Door Kickers 2: Task Force North 2025 · $9.2M 
Artificial Extinction 2 2026 · $68k 
Frontline Crisis 2024 · $63k 
AirMech Command 2017 · $45k 
Antivirus Girl 2026 · $41k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Door Kickers 2: Task Force North | $24.99 | 12,324 96% | 370k | $9.2M (exactly $9,239,303) | KillHouse Games | |
| | Artificial Extinction 2 | $19.99 | 113 77% | 3.4k | $68k (exactly $67,766) | 100Hr Games Inc | |
| | Frontline Crisis | older | $5.99 | 348 87% | 10k | $63k (exactly $62,536) | BCQT |
| | AirMech Command | older | $7.99 | 188 68% | 5.6k | $45k (exactly $45,064) | Carbon Games |
| | Antivirus Girl | $7.99 | 169 88% | 5.1k | $41k (exactly $40,509) | Chowbie | |
 | Control Craft 3 | older | $4.99 | 235 73% | 7.1k | $35k (exactly $35,180) | Cristian Manolachi, Atomic Fabrik |
 | HELLFRONT: HONEYMOON | older | $9.99 | 64 75% | 1.9k | $19k (exactly $19,181) | SkyGoblin |
 | Krosfighter | older | $9.99 | 57 64% | 1.7k | $17k (exactly $17,083) | Doryah Games |
 | Battle Craft | older | $17.99 | 16 81% | 480 | $8.6k (exactly $8,635) | Yaremchuk |
 | Devader | older | $7.99 | 32 93% | 960 | $7.7k (exactly $7,670) | Falkenbrew |
 | Misty Land | $8.99 | 24 79% | 720 | $6.5k (exactly $6,473) | Branches Games | |
 | Pact of Steel | $14.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Steel Potato Games LLC | |
 | Just Move:Clean City Messy Battle | $15.99 | 11 45% | 330 | $5.3k (exactly $5,277) | daminggede | |
 | BATTLERCORE: TEAM BLAZER | $14.99 | 9 66% | 270 | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) | SCARLET-G | |
 | Territorial Conquest | $4.99 | 22 50% | 660 | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) | Uğur CAN | |
 | SpaceCraft Brawl | $4.99 | 17 94% | 510 | $2.5k (exactly $2,545) | ruploz | |
 | PESKY ORCS! | · EA | $2.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $449 (exactly $449) | Johannes Lott |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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