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Should I ship a Crime Turn-Based Strategy?
Turn-Based Strategy + Crime
Only 15 developers shipped a Crime Turn-Based 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, Black Gold - Shining Town, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 43 more are announced, ×3.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.0k, ×3.1 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $390; 1 in 20 cleared $100k, ×170 the market median. Revenue is up 800% on the market; 43 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $390 (exactly $390) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.0k (exactly $1,977) |
| Top 25% | $6.9k (exactly $6,924) |
| Top 5% | $107k (exactly $107,024) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 54 |
| Announced | 43 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $5.99 |
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 800% on the market, supply 175% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Turn-Based Strategy
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 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
- Turn-Based Strategy
- Price point
- $5.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 698 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $390. 8 in 10 of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 43 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Turn-Based Strategy with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Persona 5 Royal 2022 · $165M 
Empire of Sin 2020 · $5.5M 
This Is the Police 2 2018 · $2.4M 
Clue/Cluedo: Classic Edition 2018 · $1.6M 
City of Gangsters 2021 · $1.2M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Persona 5 Royal | older | $59.99 | 91,682 96% | 2.8M | $165M (exactly $165,000,095) | ATLUS |
| | Empire of Sin | older | $39.99 | 4,544 49% | 136k | $5.5M (exactly $5,451,437) | Romero Games |
| | This Is the Police 2 | older | $14.99 | 5,330 77% | 160k | $2.4M (exactly $2,396,901) | Weappy Studio |
| | Clue/Cluedo: Classic Edition | older | $16.99 | 3,096 88% | 93k | $1.6M (exactly $1,578,031) | Marmalade Game Studio Ltd |
| | City of Gangsters | older | $29.99 | 1,332 73% | 40k | $1.2M (exactly $1,198,400) | SomaSim |
 | Omerta - City of Gangsters | older | $14.99 | 1,597 67% | 48k | $718k (exactly $718,171) | Haemimont Games |
 | Shadows of Forbidden Gods | older | $19.99 | 1,046 91% | 31k | $627k (exactly $627,286) | Bobby Two Hands |
 | Antihero | older | $14.99 | 658 86% | 20k | $296k (exactly $295,903) | Tim Conkling |
 | Police Shootout | older | $14.99 | 449 55% | 13k | $202k (exactly $201,915) | Games Incubator, Hypnotic Ants |
 | This Is the President | older | $14.99 | 359 67% | 11k | $161k (exactly $161,442) | SuperPAC |
 | Black Gold - Shining Town | $13.99 | 255 80% | 7.7k | $107k (exactly $107,024) | Morexingame | |
 | The Fable: Manga Build Roguelike | $9.99 | 240 91% | 7.2k | $72k (exactly $71,928) | MONO ENTERTAINMENT | |
 | Liar Game | $2.99 | 109 82% | 3.3k | $9.8k (exactly $9,777) | Kark Project | |
 | Paracom | $10.99 | 21 90% | 630 | $6.9k (exactly $6,924) | Steel Widow Klan | |
 | Empire of Vice : Chicago | · EA | $16.99 | 9 77% | 270 | $4.6k (exactly $4,587) | Artifex Parvus |
 | EmpireX - Business, Real Estate and Crime Simulator | $14.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $3.6k (exactly $3,598) | darkwolf66 | |
 | Blackjack Roulette | $2.99 | 30 83% | 900 | $2.7k (exactly $2,691) | DreamArk Lab | |
 | Bratki | $5.99 | 11 72% | 330 | $2.0k (exactly $1,977) | VZLab | |
 | Smoke Town | $6.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $1.9k (exactly $1,887) | TSRV | |
 | GASLIFT: A Chair Horror | $2.99 | 6 50% | 180 | $538 (exactly $538) | SmoochGM |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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