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Should I ship a Logic Auto Battler?
Auto Battler + Logic
Only 19 developers shipped a Logic Auto Battler 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, SkyShard: City Battler, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 33 more are announced, ×2.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 3 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $120 in the last 2 years and $480 over 4, against a market of $480 for a 3 / 10 build. 12 developers shipped in the last year and 33 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $119 (exactly $119) |
| Top 25% | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) |
| Top 5% | $48k (exactly $47,668) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 43 |
| Announced | 33 |
| Effort | 3 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | High |
| 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 flat on the market, supply 70% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is high: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Auto Battler
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Logic
- effort 2 / 10 · high · deductive rules and grids
What it takes
- Effort
- 3 / 10 · small 2D action, light systems
- Systems
- Auto Battler, Logic; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, Building, Roguelite
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, 3D, Stylized
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 224 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 33 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena 2019 · $380k 
CROPS! 2024 · $50k 
SkyShard: City Battler 2026 · EA · $48k 
Hyper Empire 2025 · $17k 
Dangerous Arena 2024 · $13k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | GLADIABOTS - AI Combat Arena | older | $14.99 | 846 87% | 25k | $380k (exactly $380,446) | GFX47 |
| | CROPS! | older | $7.99 | 208 87% | 6.2k | $50k (exactly $49,858) | Bocary Studios |
| | SkyShard: City Battler | · EA | $14.99 | 106 97% | 3.2k | $48k (exactly $47,668) | ItsBen321 |
| | Hyper Empire | $11.99 | 46 78% | 1.4k | $17k (exactly $16,546) | Fair Weather Studios | |
| | Dangerous Arena | older | $29.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $13k (exactly $12,596) | RenPixel |
 | MistsBook | older | $11.99 | 31 100% | 930 | $11k (exactly $11,151) | Dehist Games |
 | Army To Army | older | $24.99 | 9 55% | 270 | $6.7k (exactly $6,747) | Piece Of Voxel |
 | Terranny | · EA older | $9.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Terranos Engineering |
 | Clank-Robotics | $6.99 | 14 92% | 420 | $2.9k (exactly $2,936) | Clank Studios | |
 | Code Rivals: Robot Programming Battle | older | $5.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) | Team B |
 | Loot of Idle | $1.99 | 33 48% | 990 | $2.0k (exactly $1,970) | DarkRook Interactive | |
 | Pulslink | $6.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $1.7k (exactly $1,678) | FatCoke | |
 | There Is No Lore | $17.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.6k (exactly $1,619) | Little Flea Studios | |
 | Idle Rect | $7.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Lazy Idle Games | |
 | Infinite Idle: Online Clicker RPG | $1.99 | 8 37% | 240 | $478 (exactly $478) | Comar Studios | |
 | Mystic Warfare | · EA | $6.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | SECRET PAPER |
 | The King of Go | $1.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | Laying Game |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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