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Should I ship a Conspiracy Tactical game?
Tactical + Conspiracy
Only 10 developers shipped a Conspiracy Tactical 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, Chains of Freedom, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 38 more are announced, ×13 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $450 against a market of $630. 38 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $300 (exactly $300) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) |
| Top 5% | $390k (exactly $389,844) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 38 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 up 65% on the market, supply 55% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Tactical
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Conspiracy
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Tactical
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 81% positive over 845 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 38 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×13 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
SCP: 5K 2022 · EA · $7.4M 
Sigma Theory: Global Cold War 2019 · $481k 
Chains of Freedom 2025 · $390k 
Prime Monster 2026 · $185k 
Undead Inc. 2024 · $95k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | SCP: 5K | · EA older | $19.99 | 12,334 80% | 370k | $7.4M (exactly $7,396,700) | Affray Interactive |
| | Sigma Theory: Global Cold War | older | $17.99 | 892 77% | 27k | $481k (exactly $481,412) | Mi-Clos Studio, Goblinz Studio, FibreTi… (Mi-Clos Studio, Goblinz Studio, FibreTigre) |
| | Chains of Freedom | $24.99 | 520 80% | 16k | $390k (exactly $389,844) | Nordcurrent | |
| | Prime Monster | $19.99 | 308 83% | 9.2k | $185k (exactly $184,708) | Cavalier Game Studios | |
| | Undead Inc. | older | $19.99 | 158 27% | 4.7k | $95k (exactly $94,753) | Rightsized Games |
 | Budget Cuts Ultimate | older | $19.99 | 110 88% | 3.3k | $66k (exactly $65,967) | Neat Corporation |
 | Cyber Ops | older | $14.99 | 108 42% | 3.2k | $49k (exactly $48,568) | Octeto Studios |
 | The Shadow Government Simulator | older | $9.99 | 100 75% | 3.0k | $30k (exactly $29,970) | Chupacabra Game Studios |
 | UNDETECTED | older | $14.99 | 63 71% | 1.9k | $28k (exactly $28,331) | Antonio Freyre |
 | Just Read The Instructions | · EA older | $9.99 | 37 48% | 1.1k | $11k (exactly $11,089) | Knackelibang Productions |
 | Makoku - The Seductive Twilight Squadron | $19.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | INTERHEART, ぷちDEVIL | |
 | Tanks of Freedom II | $5.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.1k (exactly $1,078) | P1X | |
 | Going Dark | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Sergiusz Stein | |
 | Junkyard Universe | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | Sarah Dressel | |
 | Balkan Bloodbath | $9.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Michael Richard Lannon | |
 | Lucky Pikinini - Advanced Killer Cyborg | $1.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $119 (exactly $119) | Lucky Pikinini | |
 | Ambasu | · EA | $1.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Ekofi Gaming |
 | Project CyberSky | $11.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Xcogames LLC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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