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Should I ship a Bullet Time Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Bullet Time
Only 14 developers shipped a Bullet Time Real Time Tactics 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, Deadlock Station, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 23 more are announced, ×2.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $590, ×0.9 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $16k, ×26 the market median. Revenue is down 100% on the market; 23 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $594 (exactly $594) |
| Top 25% | $2.3k (exactly $2,336) |
| Top 5% | $16k (exactly $16,484) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 23 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 80% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Real Time Tactics
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Bullet Time
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Real Time Tactics, Bullet Time; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, RPG, Adventure
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Top-Down
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 7 games average 88% positive over 170 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 23 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Vehicular CombatPoor odds
- + God GamePoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
Comparable games
WARNO 2024 · $17M 
BattleGroupVR 2023 · $643k 
Dark Future: Blood Red States (Classic) 2019 · $187k 
Active DBG: Brave's Rage 2023 · $121k 
Deadlock Station 2026 · $16k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | WARNO | older | $39.99 | 14,502 80% | 435k | $17M (exactly $17,398,049) | Eugen Systems |
| | BattleGroupVR | older | $24.99 | 858 92% | 26k | $643k (exactly $643,243) | SpaceOwl Games |
| | Dark Future: Blood Red States (Classic) | older | $24.99 | 250 70% | 7.5k | $187k (exactly $187,425) | Auroch Digital |
| | Active DBG: Brave's Rage | older | $17.99 | 224 80% | 6.7k | $121k (exactly $120,893) | ISVR |
| | Deadlock Station | $9.99 | 55 80% | 1.7k | $16k (exactly $16,484) | Luxorix Games | |
 | Meta Card Backpack Legend | $7.99 | 68 97% | 2.0k | $16k (exactly $16,300) | KY Games | |
 | PEE WAR！ | older | $1.99 | 61 93% | 1.8k | $3.6k (exactly $3,642) | LBR games, Integer games |
 | Bass Defense - Rhythm Meets Strategy | $5.99 | 17 100% | 510 | $3.1k (exactly $3,055) | WOMBEX Games | |
 | Collisus | · EA older | $4.99 | 18 77% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | GameDevDave |
 | League Of Tacticians: Path of Tarkan | $5.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $2.3k (exactly $2,336) | Oba Games | |
 | Castle And Cursor | $6.99 | 11 63% | 330 | $2.3k (exactly $2,307) | Elite Gorgon Games | |
 | Favela Defender | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Palmsoft Games | |
 | Zombie Self-Cultivation | $9.90 | 2 50% | 60 | $594 (exactly $594) | LangBubai | |
 | BlastLast | $6.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Alexoid Studio | |
 | Our War: Firepower Suppression | $16.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Chengdu Old Man | |
 | Ropeat | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Ropeat Team |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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