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Should I ship a Military Automation game?
Automation + Military
Only 17 developers shipped a Military Automation 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, Pax Autocratica, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 31 more are announced, ×2.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $540, ×0.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $420; 1 in 20 cleared $2.8M, ×4587 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 31 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $418 (exactly $418) |
|---|---|
| Median | $539 (exactly $539) |
| Top 25% | $88k (exactly $88,141) |
| Top 5% | $2.9M (exactly $2,880,839) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 17 |
| Released games | 30 |
| Announced | 31 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 650% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 20%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Automation
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Military
- 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
- Automation; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Building, Management, Strategy
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Pixel Graphics
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 89% positive over 6,191 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $420. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 31 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Automation with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Job SimulatorStrong odds
- + Female ProtagonistStrong odds
- + Open World Survival CraftFair
- + HorrorFair
- + HistoricalFair
- + UndergroundFair
- + Class-BasedFair
- + MiningFair
- + Auto BattlerFair
- + ProgrammingFair
- + FishingFair
- + Turn-Based TacticsFair
Comparable games
Outpost: Infinity Siege 2024 · $8.7M 
SimplePlanes 2015 · $3.8M 
Pax Autocratica 2026 · EA · $2.9M 
SimplePlanes 2 2026 · EA · $789k 
Gunsmith 2018 · EA · $602k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Outpost: Infinity Siege | older | $24.99 | 11,636 65% | 349k | $8.7M (exactly $8,723,509) | Team Ranger |
| | SimplePlanes | older | $12.99 | 9,811 93% | 294k | $3.8M (exactly $3,823,347) | Jundroo, LLC |
| | Pax Autocratica | · EA | $29.99 | 3,202 91% | 96k | $2.9M (exactly $2,880,839) | Multiverse |
| | SimplePlanes 2 | · EA | $19.99 | 1,316 92% | 39k | $789k (exactly $789,205) | Jundroo, LLC |
| | Gunsmith | · EA older | $19.99 | 1,004 71% | 30k | $602k (exactly $602,099) | SCT |
 | Territory: Farming and Warfare | $14.99 | 738 84% | 22k | $332k (exactly $331,879) | Wit Studio | |
 | Mech Mechanic Simulator | older | $19.99 | 538 61% | 16k | $323k (exactly $322,639) | Polyslash |
 | Military Incremental Complex | $9.99 | 692 82% | 21k | $207k (exactly $207,392) | Space Kraken Studios | |
 | D.O.T. Defence | $14.99 | 196 85% | 5.9k | $88k (exactly $88,141) | Rattleaxe Games | |
 | Role of Hex | older | $9.99 | 93 69% | 2.8k | $28k (exactly $27,872) | Verde |
 | 逐鹿汉末:三国 | · EA | $14.99 | 31 61% | 930 | $14k (exactly $13,941) | CXC STUDIO |
 | Approach Control: Remastered | $14.99 | 8 62% | 240 | $3.6k (exactly $3,598) | Big Fat Simulations Inc. | |
 | Commie Block | $7.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Ape Brain Games | |
 | CodeWar Kingdom | $8.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $539 (exactly $539) | NULL. | |
 | Fantasy Air-Sea Battles Showdown | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | WANG WENJIE |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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