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Should I ship a War Dynamic Narration game?
Dynamic Narration + War
Only 8 developers shipped a War Dynamic Narration 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, Observe, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 15 more are announced, ×3.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $3.8k against a market of $630. 15 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $359 (exactly $359) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.8k (exactly $3,778) |
| Top 25% | $13k (exactly $13,193) |
| Top 5% | $18k (exactly $17,738) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 15 |
| 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 down 50% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 11%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Dynamic Narration
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- War
- 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
- Dynamic Narration
- 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 $29.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 8,504 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $360. 15 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Martha Is Dead 2022 · $2.4M 
Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter 2023 · $767k 
All Quiet in the Trenches 2024 · EA · $690k 
Blitzkrieg Anthology 2014 · $208k 
Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology 2014 · $167k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Martha Is Dead | older | $29.99 | 2,700 78% | 81k | $2.4M (exactly $2,429,190) | LKA |
| | Destroyer: The U-Boat Hunter | older | $29.99 | 852 73% | 26k | $767k (exactly $766,544) | Iron Wolf Studio S.A. |
| | All Quiet in the Trenches | · EA older | $24.99 | 921 90% | 28k | $690k (exactly $690,474) | Totally Not Aliens |
| | Blitzkrieg Anthology | older | $4.99 | 1,392 89% | 42k | $208k (exactly $208,382) | Nival |
| | Blitzkrieg 2 Anthology | older | $4.99 | 1,116 84% | 33k | $167k (exactly $167,065) | Nival |
 | The Bible | older | $4.99 | 965 87% | 29k | $144k (exactly $144,460) | Bible Games |
 | Linguist FPS - The Language Learning FPS | older | $14.99 | 192 71% | 5.8k | $86k (exactly $86,342) | Rocket Boy Games |
 | Heroes of Three Kingdoms | · EA older | $9.99 | 190 49% | 5.7k | $57k (exactly $56,943) | Wuwei |
 | The King's Dilemma: Chronicles | older | $14.99 | 102 70% | 3.1k | $46k (exactly $45,869) | Big Trouble |
 | Uberlaufer | · EA older | $10.00 | 74 83% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $22,200) | Think Tank Decoy Software LLC |
 | Observe | · EA | $7.99 | 74 91% | 2.2k | $18k (exactly $17,738) | Kisotik Games |
 | NAPOLEON: RULE OF IRON | $19.99 | 22 90% | 660 | $13k (exactly $13,193) | Eisengeist Studio | |
 | Command by Voice: World Conquest | · EA | $9.99 | 19 52% | 570 | $5.7k (exactly $5,694) | Side Meicai |
 | Breakfall: Nuclear Winter | · EA | $17.99 | 7 28% | 210 | $3.8k (exactly $3,778) | Dominik Geuer |
 | Crownborne | $9.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $1.5k (exactly $1,498) | LumenStudio | |
 | Fading Voices | $5.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $359 (exactly $359) | Mad Harter Studio | |
 | Asthemroids | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Whispersoft LLC | |
 | The Herem Saga (Anathema) | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Davide Sassoli |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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