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Should I ship a Female-Led Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Female Protagonist
Of 45 developers who shipped a Female-Led Real Time Tactics in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 61 more are announced, ×3.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $2.4k, ×3.8 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $840; 1 in 20 cleared $160k, ×268 the market median. Revenue is flat on the market; 61 games are announced against 20 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $839 (exactly $839) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.4k (exactly $2,394) |
| Top 25% | $12k (exactly $12,470) |
| Top 5% | $168k (exactly $168,030) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 45 |
| Released games | 129 |
| Announced | 61 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 flat on the market, supply 25% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 16%, 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
- Female Protagonist
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high 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, Action, RPG
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Anime, Story Rich
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 90% positive over 5,015 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $840. 8 in 10 of the 34 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 61 games are announced against 20 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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