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Should I ship a WWI Arcade game?
Arcade + World War I
Only 6 developers shipped a WWI Arcade game 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, Beach Invasion 1915-Gallipoli, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 9 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $8.8k against a market of $630. 9 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $539 (exactly $539) |
|---|---|
| Median | $8.8k (exactly $8,832) |
| Top 25% | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) |
| Top 5% | $17k (exactly $17,498) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 9 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Arcade
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- World War I
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Arcade
- 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 74% positive over 3,717 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $540. 9 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Toy Soldiers: Complete 2016 · $445k 
Warplanes: WW1 Fighters 2021 · $242k 
NecroVision 2009 · $211k 
Aircraft Evolution 2018 · $60k 
Air Conflicts: Secret Wars 2011 · $54k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Toy Soldiers: Complete | older | $14.99 | 989 78% | 30k | $445k (exactly $444,753) | Signal Studios, Krome Studios |
| | Warplanes: WW1 Fighters | older | $19.99 | 403 88% | 12k | $242k (exactly $241,679) | Home Net Games |
| | NecroVision | older | $4.99 | 1,412 68% | 42k | $211k (exactly $211,376) | The Farm 51 |
| | Aircraft Evolution | older | $8.99 | 221 80% | 6.6k | $60k (exactly $59,604) | Satur Entertainment |
| | Air Conflicts: Secret Wars | older | $5.99 | 301 74% | 9.0k | $54k (exactly $54,090) | Games Farm, 3Division |
 | Skies above the Great War | older | $11.99 | 140 75% | 4.2k | $50k (exactly $50,358) | Puntigames |
 | Beach Invasion 1915-Gallipoli | $7.99 | 73 71% | 2.2k | $17k (exactly $17,498) | AIx2 Games | |
 | 1917 - The Alien Invasion DX | older | $4.99 | 113 71% | 3.4k | $17k (exactly $16,916) | Andrade Games |
 | Red Wings: American Aces | older | $11.99 | 44 70% | 1.3k | $16k (exactly $15,827) | All in! Games |
 | Trenches VR | $14.99 | 21 66% | 630 | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) | Steelkrill Studio | |
 | Dagger Froggy | $4.99 | 59 98% | 1.8k | $8.8k (exactly $8,832) | Solluco | |
 | Wings Of Rage | $15.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) | Cyrille Fontaine | |
 | Sky Scramble | $5.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $539 (exactly $539) | SpunjLabs | |
 | Aerial Lockdown | $2.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $179 (exactly $179) | DryLight Games UF |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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