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Should I ship a Turn-Based Tactics Football (Soccer) game?
Football (Soccer) + Turn-Based Tactics
Only 14 developers shipped a Turn-Based Tactics Football (Soccer) 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, Pup Champs, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 30 more are announced, ×4.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $3.6k, ×2.4 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $1.1k; 1 in 20 cleared $39k, ×26 the market median. Revenue is down 75% on the market; 30 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) |
| Top 25% | $7.9k (exactly $7,913) |
| Top 5% | $39k (exactly $39,360) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 14 |
| Released games | 35 |
| Announced | 30 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 down 75% 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 low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Football (Soccer)
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- Turn-Based Tactics
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- Football (Soccer), Turn-Based Tactics; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Sports, Strategy, Simulation
- Price point
- $8.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, 1990's, Cute
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 91% positive over 281 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.1k. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 30 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Football (Soccer) with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Life SimFair
- + EconomyFair
- + Local MultiplayerLong shot
- + Local Co-OpLong shot
- + Football (American)Long shot
- + ArcadeLong shot
- + 4 Player LocalPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + AdventurePoor odds
- + Resource ManagementPoor odds
- + ManagementPoor odds
- + StrategyPoor odds
Comparable games
Football, Tactics & Glory 2018 · $3.0M 
GOAL! The Club Manager 2022 · EA · $327k 
Goalgetter 2023 · $58k 
Club Manager 2016 2015 · $40k 
Pup Champs 2025 · $39k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Football, Tactics & Glory | older | $24.99 | 3,998 87% | 120k | $3.0M (exactly $2,997,301) | Creoteam |
| | GOAL! The Club Manager | · EA older | $29.99 | 364 33% | 11k | $327k (exactly $327,491) | 2tainment |
| | Goalgetter | older | $19.99 | 96 80% | 2.9k | $58k (exactly $57,571) | netmin games |
| | Club Manager 2016 | older | $19.99 | 66 50% | 2.0k | $40k (exactly $39,580) | BigBlaze Games |
| | Pup Champs | $12.99 | 101 98% | 3.0k | $39k (exactly $39,360) | Afterburn | |
 | Football Drama | older | $11.99 | 72 58% | 2.2k | $26k (exactly $25,898) | Open Lab Games, Demigiant |
 | Ganbare! Super Strikers | older | $9.99 | 85 85% | 2.6k | $25k (exactly $25,474) | rese |
 | Super Button Soccer | older | $6.99 | 65 63% | 2.0k | $14k (exactly $13,630) | LIGA - Laboratório de Inovação de Games… (LIGA - Laboratório de Inovação de Games e Apps) |
 | Football Fictional World Simulator | $14.99 | 24 75% | 720 | $11k (exactly $10,793) | keigo0221 | |
 | Boeckham's Football Manager | $4.99 | 60 91% | 1.8k | $9.0k (exactly $8,982) | Bitbeast Games | |
 | Pro Football | · EA | $11.99 | 22 100% | 660 | $7.9k (exactly $7,913) | Dayra Studio |
 | Tactics Unlimited | · EA | $19.99 | 13 30% | 390 | $7.8k (exactly $7,796) | 2tainment |
 | Sunday League Manager: Horse and Spoon | $8.99 | 15 93% | 450 | $4.0k (exactly $4,046) | christianosway | |
 | Goaldeck | $9.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | Pro Nobis Studio | |
 | Crazy Robot Ball | $5.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $3.2k (exactly $3,235) | Blue Band Studio | |
 | Card Revolution Soccer | · EA | $8.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $2.4k (exactly $2,427) | LetsPlaymaker Productions |
 | Tactilite | $4.99 | 7 100% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | Eloori Interactive |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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