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Should I ship a Dystopian Turn-Based game?
Turn-Based + Dystopian
Only 7 developers shipped a Dystopian Turn-Based 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, Quasimorph, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 13 more are announced, ×2.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.9k, ×3.1 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.2k; 1 in 20 cleared $5.3M, ×8591 the market median. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 13 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.9k (exactly $1,948) |
| Top 25% | $135k (exactly $134,932) |
| Top 5% | $5.4M (exactly $5,394,841) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 13 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $12.99 |
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 150% more developers than 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.
- Turn-Based
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Dystopian
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Turn-Based
- Price point
- $12.99 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 $24.99 or above; the middle game at $12.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 28,228 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.2k. 13 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Turn-Based with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Asynchronous MultiplayerStrong odds
- + DragonsStrong odds
- + Hack and SlashStrong odds
- + SandboxFair
- + HorrorFair
- + CraftingFair
- + CollectathonFair
- + Perma DeathFair
- + ArcadeFair
- + ChessFair
- + Tower DefensePoor odds
- + 4XPoor odds
Comparable games
Quasimorph 2026 · $5.4M 
Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game 2023 · $4.9M 
Shadowrun Returns 2013 · $4.3M 
ATOM RPG Trudograd 2021 · $1.3M 
FINAL FANTASY VII 2013 · $527k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Quasimorph | $24.99 | 7,196 82% | 216k | $5.4M (exactly $5,394,841) | Magnum Scriptum | |
| | Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role Playing Game | older | $39.99 | 4,087 87% | 123k | $4.9M (exactly $4,903,174) | Iron Tower Studio |
| | Shadowrun Returns | older | $14.99 | 9,521 88% | 286k | $4.3M (exactly $4,281,594) | Harebrained Schemes |
| | ATOM RPG Trudograd | older | $10.99 | 3,976 83% | 119k | $1.3M (exactly $1,310,887) | AtomTeam |
| | FINAL FANTASY VII | older | $11.99 | 1,464 74% | 44k | $527k (exactly $526,601) | Square Enix, FINE Co., Ltd. |
 | Jack Move | older | $19.99 | 813 80% | 24k | $488k (exactly $487,556) | So Romantic |
 | Aeon's End | older | $14.99 | 438 82% | 13k | $197k (exactly $196,969) | Handelabra Games Inc. |
 | Keylocker | Turn Based Cyberpunk Action | $19.99 | 225 84% | 6.8k | $135k (exactly $134,932) | Moonana | |
 | Vigilantes | older | $14.99 | 276 80% | 8.3k | $124k (exactly $124,117) | Timeslip Softworks |
 | Rain of Reflections: Set Free | older | $9.99 | 232 74% | 7.0k | $70k (exactly $69,530) | Lionbite Games |
 | Fractured Core | $14.99 | 14 78% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | Engram Interactive | |
 | Mordfield Command | $12.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $1.9k (exactly $1,948) | Software Verde, LLC | |
 | REDTAPE | $9.99 | 4 25% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Gary Lee | |
 | UHILANT | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | BoVtik | |
 | Galdromeda | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | rediskdev |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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