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Should I ship a Dwarf Tactical game?
Tactical + Dwarves
Only 7 developers shipped a Dwarf 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, Hold The Mine, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 10 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.0k, ×1.7 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $630. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 10 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $629 (exactly $629) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
| Top 25% | $121k (exactly $121,419) |
| Top 5% | $152k (exactly $151,999) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 33 |
| Announced | 10 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 500% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 30%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Tactical
- Price point
- $8.99 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 $59.99 or above; the middle game at $14.99.
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 273,383 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $630. 10 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Total War: WARHAMMER III 2022 · $189M 
Total War: WARHAMMER II 2017 · $153M 
Total War: WARHAMMER 2016 · $58M 
Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition 2010 · $26M 
Age of Wonders III 2014 · $6.3M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Total War: WARHAMMER III | older | $59.99 | 104,822 71% | 3.1M | $189M (exactly $188,648,153) | CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive |
| | Total War: WARHAMMER II | older | $59.99 | 85,134 92% | 2.6M | $153M (exactly $153,215,660) | CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (M… (CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (Mac), Feral Interactive (Linux)) |
| | Total War: WARHAMMER | older | $59.99 | 32,105 79% | 963k | $58M (exactly $57,779,368) | CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (L… (CREATIVE ASSEMBLY, Feral Interactive (Linux), Feral Interactive (Mac)) |
| | Dragon Age: Origins - Ultimate Edition | older | $29.99 | 28,721 85% | 862k | $26M (exactly $25,840,284) | BioWare |
| | Age of Wonders III | older | $29.99 | 7,020 81% | 211k | $6.3M (exactly $6,315,894) | Triumph Studios |
 | Shadowrun Returns | older | $14.99 | 9,521 88% | 286k | $4.3M (exactly $4,281,594) | Harebrained Schemes |
 | Might & Magic X - Legacy | older | $29.99 | 3,178 65% | 95k | $2.9M (exactly $2,859,247) | Ubisoft |
 | Warhammer Quest (Classic) | older | $29.99 | 897 71% | 27k | $807k (exactly $807,031) | Rodeo Games, Twistplay |
 | Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition (Classic) | older | $14.99 | 1,386 79% | 42k | $623k (exactly $623,284) | Cyanide Studios |
 | Aarklash: Legacy | older | $15.99 | 599 76% | 18k | $287k (exactly $287,340) | Cyanide Studio |
 | Hold The Mine | · EA | $14.99 | 338 83% | 10k | $152k (exactly $151,999) | Hookaria Games |
 | Union of Gnomes | $14.99 | 270 80% | 8.1k | $121k (exactly $121,419) | Hoolignomes | |
 | À La Mine | $8.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $3.2k (exactly $3,236) | Studio Dés Kréatifs | |
 | Dwarf Guild Mania | $6.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Quarkblue | |
 | Robugs | $6.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | Marcin Rodzon | |
 | Dwarven Rails | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Kogekisaru | |
 | Dwarven Rampart | $7.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | Alaabale |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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