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Should I ship a Crime Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Crime
Only 5 developers shipped a Crime 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, SWAT Commander, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×6.3 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 $18k against a market of $630. 19 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $18k (exactly $18,034) |
| Top 25% | $127k (exactly $127,014) |
| Top 5% | $399k (exactly $398,800) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 7%, 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
- Crime
- 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
- Real Time Tactics
- Price point
- $7.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 17,394 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. 19 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Outbreak SimFair
- + HackingFair
- + World War IIPoor odds
- + Cold WarPoor odds
- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Vehicular CombatPoor odds
- + God GamePoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
Comparable games
911 Operator 2017 · $6.5M 
SWAT Commander 2025 · EA · $399k 
Counter Terrorist Agency 2019 · $287k 
Picklock 2020 · $231k 
Hot Brass 2021 · $219k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 911 Operator | older | $14.99 | 14,416 89% | 432k | $6.5M (exactly $6,482,875) | Jutsu Games |
| | SWAT Commander | · EA | $19.99 | 665 77% | 20k | $399k (exactly $398,800) | Red Mountain Games, Ritual Interactive |
| | Counter Terrorist Agency | older | $19.99 | 479 43% | 14k | $287k (exactly $287,256) | Play2Chill |
| | Picklock | older | $19.99 | 386 86% | 12k | $231k (exactly $231,484) | Creepy Brothers |
| | Hot Brass | older | $14.99 | 488 81% | 15k | $219k (exactly $219,454) | Walk with Kings |
 | PROHIBEAST | $34.99 | 121 57% | 3.6k | $127k (exactly $127,014) | SUPER AC | |
 | Gone Rogue | older | $14.99 | 282 87% | 8.5k | $127k (exactly $126,815) | AskaLot Games |
 | Perfect Heist | older | $4.99 | 398 76% | 12k | $60k (exactly $59,581) | yeswecamp |
 | City Eye | older | $9.99 | 73 32% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $21,878) | · |
 | Death row inmates on the run 2--The Resistance | $6.99 | 86 55% | 2.6k | $18k (exactly $18,034) | zzzgame | |
 | Favela Defender | $4.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Palmsoft Games | |
 | Hello Operator | $7.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $479 (exactly $479) | Leapfrog Studio LLC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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