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Should I ship a Beat 'em up Wargame?
Wargame + Beat 'em up
Only 6 developers shipped a Beat 'em up Wargame 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, OutBreak: The Last Survivor, 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, ×2.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $120 against a market of $630. 8 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $119 (exactly $119) |
| Top 25% | $299 (exactly $299) |
| Top 5% | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Wargame
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Beat 'em up
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Wargame, Beat 'em up
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $11.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 62% positive over 7,788 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Wargame with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + NavalFair
- + TabletopFair
- + LogicFair
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
- + DiplomacyPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
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Firelight Fantasy: Force Energy 2022 · $50k 
Control Craft 2 2016 · $41k 
Ninja Lexx 2021 · $3.6k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Three Kingdoms Zhao Yun | older | $19.99 | 3,829 66% | 115k | $2.3M (exactly $2,296,251) | ZUIJIANGYUE Game |
| | Endorphin Vice | · EA older | $9.99 | 3,436 56% | 103k | $1.0M (exactly $1,029,769) | Endorphin Studios |
| | Firelight Fantasy: Force Energy | older | $11.99 | 140 77% | 4.2k | $50k (exactly $50,358) | Quacky Games |
| | Control Craft 2 | older | $4.99 | 274 72% | 8.2k | $41k (exactly $41,018) | Cristian Manolachi, Atomic Fabrik |
| | Ninja Lexx | older | $5.99 | 20 75% | 600 | $3.6k (exactly $3,594) | Aleksandr Kolesnyk |
 | X-Force Under Attack | older | $5.99 | 20 100% | 600 | $3.6k (exactly $3,594) | Cube Games |
 | DYNABLASTER | older | $19.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $3.0k (exactly $2,998) | BBG Entertainment GmbH |
 | Air defenders | older | $9.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | Serhii Khramov, Dmytro Pohrebnyi, Illia… (Serhii Khramov, Dmytro Pohrebnyi, Illia Ustenko) |
 | Hentai Angel: Smite the Nazis | older | $1.99 | 42 78% | 1.3k | $2.5k (exactly $2,507) | DarkLight Studio |
 | Revenge on the Streets 3 | older | $4.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $1.8k (exactly $1,796) | Del_Player |
 | OutBreak: The Last Survivor | $9.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Briant Entertainment | |
 | Humans Vs Orcs | $4.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | ShakyHand | |
 | BlackLaceAssassins | $1.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | VirtualDelightsPro | |
 | Tank Battle Salvo | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | CANGYU CONCEPT | |
 | Poligons | $1.00 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Vespa Nera | |
 | Bodacious Bashup | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Sliced Enigma |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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