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Should I ship a Card Battler Grand Strategy?
Grand Strategy + Card Battler
Only 11 developers shipped a Card Battler Grand Strategy 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, Rogue Hex, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×2.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build. 7 developers shipped in the last year and 15 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $210 (exactly $210) |
|---|---|
| Median | $450 (exactly $450) |
| Top 25% | $25k (exactly $25,330) |
| Top 5% | $156k (exactly $155,922) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 15 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 down 95% on the market, supply 75% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 24%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Grand Strategy
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Card Battler
- effort 3 / 10 · high · card rules plus simple encounter logic
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Grand Strategy, Card Battler
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 92% positive over 656 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $210. 8 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 15 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Grand Strategy with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + DiplomacyPoor odds
Comparable games
Warhammer Underworlds - Shadespire Edition (Classic) 2020 · $953k 
Rogue Hex 2025 · $156k 
Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition 2020 · $83k 
Worlds Upon The Wind 2026 · $71k 
Last Day of Rome 2019 · $58k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Warhammer Underworlds - Shadespire Edition (Classic) | older | $29.99 | 1,059 70% | 32k | $953k (exactly $952,782) | Steel Sky Productions, Tin Man Games |
| | Rogue Hex | $19.99 | 260 89% | 7.8k | $156k (exactly $155,922) | Topstitch Games | |
| | Fury of Dracula: Digital Edition | older | $12.99 | 213 72% | 6.4k | $83k (exactly $83,006) | Nomad Games |
| | Worlds Upon The Wind | $9.99 | 238 99% | 7.1k | $71k (exactly $71,329) | Max Shawabkeh | |
| | Last Day of Rome | older | $11.99 | 162 49% | 4.9k | $58k (exactly $58,271) | Hamsters |
 | Hypnosis Card | older | $4.99 | 216 71% | 6.5k | $32k (exactly $32,335) | Naku Kinoko |
 | Hypnosis Card 2 | $12.99 | 65 78% | 2.0k | $25k (exactly $25,330) | Naku Kinoko | |
 | Dictator Simulator: Gradnar | $4.99 | 84 97% | 2.5k | $13k (exactly $12,575) | GortagonGame | |
 | Dice Of Olympus | older | $11.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $4.3k (exactly $4,316) | Bathyscaphe Studio |
 | Fight with love - deckbuilder datingsim | older | $13.99 | 7 14% | 210 | $2.9k (exactly $2,938) | Bizzare games |
 | Orbit Economica | $24.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $2.2k (exactly $2,249) | Phoenix Smith | |
 | Dice Tech Dominion - Enter the Shadow Circuit | $14.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | AUTeddy | |
 | GLOBAL CONTROL COUNTRIES | $14.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | Maximilian Urazov | |
 | Investormania | · EA | $6.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | NIGHTCREW |
 | Rogue 21 | $1.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $179 (exactly $179) | RadiantBlush, DanikStudios | |
 | Stack & Survive | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Deepframe |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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