Games › Card Game › Card Game + World War II
Should I ship a WWII Card Game?
Card Game + World War II
Only 7 developers shipped a WWII Card 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, Dragon Front: Adventures, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 5 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $210 against a market of $630. 5 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $210 (exactly $210) |
| Top 25% | $4.5k (exactly $4,485) |
| Top 5% | $35k (exactly $34,783) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 5 |
| 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 up 850% on the market, supply 35% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 27%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Card Game
- effort 2 / 10 · high · rules engine and card data
- World War II
- 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
- Card Game
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 4,165 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 5 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Card Game with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SteampunkFair
- + Immersive SimFair
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + DogsFair
- + MahjongFair
- + Artificial IntelligenceFair
- + GamblingFair
- + Point & ClickFair
- + Hidden ObjectFair
- + Board GameFair
- + PuzzleFair
- + Dating SimPoor odds
Comparable games
West Sweety 2019 · $193k 
Heroes of Normandie 2015 · $191k 
Third Front: WWII 2018 · $75k 
Dragon Front: Adventures 2025 · $35k 
Hypnosis Card 2024 · $32k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | West Sweety | older | $1.99 | 3,227 83% | 97k | $193k (exactly $192,652) | AFOG |
| | Heroes of Normandie | older | $29.99 | 212 72% | 6.4k | $191k (exactly $190,736) | Cat Rabbit |
| | Third Front: WWII | older | $7.99 | 314 59% | 9.4k | $75k (exactly $75,266) | Hamsters Gaming |
| | Dragon Front: Adventures | $19.99 | 58 89% | 1.7k | $35k (exactly $34,783) | High Voltage Software, Inc. | |
| | Hypnosis Card | older | $4.99 | 216 71% | 6.5k | $32k (exactly $32,335) | Naku Kinoko |
 | Animals Memory: Dinosaurs | older | $3.99 | 50 80% | 1.5k | $6.0k (exactly $5,985) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Board game party | $2.99 | 50 80% | 1.5k | $4.5k (exactly $4,485) | Willgw | |
 | Nuts!: The Battle of the Bulge | older | $9.99 | 12 41% | 360 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | HexWar Games |
 | Intelligence: Anime girls | older | $3.99 | 20 55% | 600 | $2.4k (exactly $2,394) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Lightning: D-Day | older | $9.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | HexWar Games |
 | Tyrants | $6.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | Artifex Parvus | |
 | MyHiStory | $7.00 | 1 100% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | BurnRiver, https://space.bilibili.com/1… (BurnRiver, https://space.bilibili.com/17858438) | |
 | World War 3: Card Battler | · EA | $0.99 | 4 50% | 120 | $119 (exactly $119) | Angel Star Studios |
 | Eon of Invocation: Syvnta Sovereignty | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Valuk Burger Nibeless | |
 | World War II Auto Battler | $10.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Three Sevens 21 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
Five niches a week, one death, one deep dive.
Your address goes to Buttondown, which sends the letter, and nowhere else. Every issue has an unsubscribe link. No tracking beyond the open count Buttondown keeps.