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Should I ship a Dystopian Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Dystopian
Only 15 developers shipped a Dystopian 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, PROHIBEAST, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 44 more are announced, ×4.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450 in the last 2 years and $480 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 9 developers shipped in the last year and 44 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $450 (exactly $450) |
| Top 25% | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) |
| Top 5% | $127k (exactly $127,014) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 45 |
| Announced | 44 |
| 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 up 70% on the market, supply 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, 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
- Dystopian
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Real Time Tactics; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, RTS, Simulation
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $34.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Top-Down, 2D, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $34.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 9 games average 82% positive over 320 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 44 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + DragonsStrong odds
- + 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
Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance 2024 · $4.1M 
Showgunners 2023 · $1.5M 
Cavalry Girls 2023 · $675k 
Nuclear Dawn 2011 · $485k 
Bot Wars 2021 · EA · $315k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Terminator: Dark Fate - Defiance | older | $39.99 | 3,395 82% | 102k | $4.1M (exactly $4,072,982) | Slitherine Ltd. |
| | Showgunners | older | $29.99 | 1,642 93% | 49k | $1.5M (exactly $1,477,307) | Artificer |
| | Cavalry Girls | older | $11.99 | 1,877 88% | 56k | $675k (exactly $675,157) | 中子星游戏研究所 |
| | Nuclear Dawn | older | $9.99 | 1,619 78% | 49k | $485k (exactly $485,214) | GameConnect, InterWave Studios |
| | Bot Wars | · EA older | $14.99 | 700 86% | 21k | $315k (exactly $314,790) | Frompy Games |
 | No Creeps Were Harmed TD | older | $19.99 | 468 88% | 14k | $281k (exactly $280,660) | MinMax Games Ltd. |
 | PROHIBEAST | $34.99 | 121 57% | 3.6k | $127k (exactly $127,014) | SUPER AC | |
 | XO | · EA older | $19.99 | 82 87% | 2.5k | $49k (exactly $49,175) | Jumpdrive Studios |
 | Red Rocket Defencism | $7.99 | 172 98% | 5.2k | $41k (exactly $41,228) | tiny cactus studio | |
 | City Eye | older | $9.99 | 73 32% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $21,878) | · |
 | NULLPTR | $14.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Jeferson Silva | |
 | Supreme Ruler Global Outbreak | $19.99 | 3 66% | 90 | $1.8k (exactly $1,799) | BattleGoat Studios | |
 | Voyna | $12.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $1.2k (exactly $1,169) | HellYeah! | |
 | Frogrammer | $9.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $899 (exactly $899) | Snobfox | |
 | S.S.C. Rusted | $3.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $479 (exactly $479) | Series Sun | |
 | OKTOFYBER | $14.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | iaroslav motailov | |
 | Overwork Empire | $6.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | YanBei | |
 | 3096 | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Hector Hedgecoat Industries |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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