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Should I ship a Crime Grand Strategy?
Grand Strategy + Crime
Only 8 developers shipped a Crime 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, HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.9k, ×1.3 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $600. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 13 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.9k (exactly $1,887) |
| Top 25% | $18k (exactly $18,034) |
| Top 5% | $478k (exactly $477,589) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 13 |
| 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: too few recent games to read.
Free games: 8%, 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
- Crime
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Grand Strategy
- Price point
- $9.99 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $14.99.
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 5,238 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 13 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Grand Strategy with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + RacingFair
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- + TabletopLong shot
- + Turn-BasedPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + DiplomacyPoor odds
- + NavalPoor odds
Comparable games
City of Gangsters 2021 · $1.2M 
Plutocracy 2019 · EA · $978k 
Shadows of Forbidden Gods 2023 · $627k 
HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator 2026 · $478k 
This Is the President 2021 · $161k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | City of Gangsters | older | $29.99 | 1,332 73% | 40k | $1.2M (exactly $1,198,400) | SomaSim |
| | Plutocracy | · EA older | $24.99 | 1,305 79% | 39k | $978k (exactly $978,358) | Redwood |
| | Shadows of Forbidden Gods | older | $19.99 | 1,046 91% | 31k | $627k (exactly $627,286) | Bobby Two Hands |
| | HackHub - Ultimate Hacker Simulator | $16.99 | 937 88% | 28k | $478k (exactly $477,589) | HotBunny | |
| | This Is the President | older | $14.99 | 359 67% | 11k | $161k (exactly $161,442) | SuperPAC |
 | Jey's Empire | older | $14.99 | 68 85% | 2.0k | $31k (exactly $30,580) | Maestro Cinetik |
 | Death row inmates on the run 2--The Resistance | $6.99 | 86 55% | 2.6k | $18k (exactly $18,034) | zzzgame | |
 | DOUGH: A Crime Strategy RPG | · EA older | $14.99 | 32 71% | 960 | $14k (exactly $14,390) | OMNIA |
 | The Commission 1920: Organized Crime Grand Strategy | older | $14.99 | 29 62% | 870 | $13k (exactly $13,041) | 302 Interactive |
 | The Commission: Organized Crime Grand Strategy | older | $4.99 | 44 34% | 1.3k | $6.6k (exactly $6,587) | 302 Interactive |
 | Empire of Vice : Chicago | · EA | $16.99 | 9 77% | 270 | $4.6k (exactly $4,587) | Artifex Parvus |
 | Smoke Town | $6.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $1.9k (exactly $1,887) | TSRV | |
 | Arms Dealer | $5.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $1.6k (exactly $1,617) | Koro Pixel Studio | |
 | Attorney Adventure | · EA | $9.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Ambearth Games |
 | Twisted Games | · EA | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | C&S |
 | The graveyard duty fall of the last demon | · EA | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Faustina Mutamba |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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