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Should I ship a Cold-War Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Cold War
Only 9 developers shipped a Cold-War 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, Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced, ×2.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $19k, ×31 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $900; 1 in 20 cleared $9.1M, ×14589 the market median. Revenue is down 80% on the market; 16 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $900 (exactly $900) |
|---|---|
| Median | $19k (exactly $19,424) |
| Top 25% | $176k (exactly $176,356) |
| Top 5% | $9.2M (exactly $9,161,667) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 34 |
| Announced | 16 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $11.99 |
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 80% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, 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
- Cold War
- 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
- Price point
- $11.99 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 $39.99 or above; the middle game at $11.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 101,496 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $900. 16 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.7 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DragonsStrong odds
- + Outbreak SimFair
- + HackingFair
- + World War IIPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Vehicular CombatPoor odds
- + God GamePoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + 4XPoor odds
Comparable games
Arma Reforger 2023 · $62M 
WARNO 2024 · $17M 
Wargame: Red Dragon 2014 · $14M 
Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age 2024 · EA · $9.2M 
Regiments 2022 · $2.5M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Arma Reforger | older | $39.99 | 51,613 80% | 1.5M | $62M (exactly $61,920,116) | Bohemia Interactive |
| | WARNO | older | $39.99 | 14,502 80% | 435k | $17M (exactly $17,398,049) | Eugen Systems |
| | Wargame: Red Dragon | older | $29.99 | 15,758 88% | 473k | $14M (exactly $14,177,473) | Eugen Systems |
| | Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age | · EA | $49.99 | 6,109 90% | 183k | $9.2M (exactly $9,161,667) | Triassic Games |
| | Regiments | older | $29.99 | 2,822 87% | 85k | $2.5M (exactly $2,538,953) | Bird's Eye Games |
 | Wargame: Airland Battle | older | $19.99 | 3,592 86% | 108k | $2.2M (exactly $2,154,122) | Eugen Systems |
 | Radio Commander: Vietnam '64 | older | $19.99 | 1,764 72% | 53k | $1.1M (exactly $1,057,871) | Serious Sim |
 | ICBM | older | $19.99 | 1,655 91% | 50k | $993k (exactly $992,503) | SoftWarWare, K-Project |
 | Line War | older | $24.99 | 1,076 80% | 32k | $807k (exactly $806,677) | Studio Centurion |
 | Wargame: European Escalation | older | $9.99 | 2,605 76% | 78k | $781k (exactly $780,718) | Eugen Systems |
 | Air Defender | · EA | $20.19 | 364 78% | 11k | $220k (exactly $220,475) | ROTOR3 |
 | Armored Brigade II | $39.99 | 147 87% | 4.4k | $176k (exactly $176,356) | Veitikka Studios | |
 | BURNED HORIZONS | · EA | $44.99 | 29 34% | 870 | $39k (exactly $39,141) | BURNED HORIZONS STUDIO |
 | SALVO | $11.99 | 54 77% | 1.6k | $19k (exactly $19,424) | Erdem Şahin, Naim Ozcan | |
 | MoeArmy vs SuArmy | $2.99 | 54 83% | 1.6k | $4.8k (exactly $4,844) | KumiLGames | |
 | Government Contractors: Arms of Influence | · EA | $6.00 | 5 20% | 150 | $900 (exactly $900) | Dan K. |
 | IRON SIGHT | · EA | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Blackmonkgaming |
 | Web Wars | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Phantom Jelly Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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