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Should I ship a WWI FPS?
FPS + World War I
Only 8 developers shipped a WWI FPS 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, Over The Top: WWI, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 7 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $17k, ×12 the market's $1.5k for a 7 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $300; 1 in 20 cleared $3.8M, ×2562 the market median. Revenue is up 5456825% on the market; 11 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $300 (exactly $300) |
|---|---|
| Median | $17k (exactly $17,498) |
| Top 25% | $3.6M (exactly $3,612,296) |
| Top 5% | $3.8M (exactly $3,837,379) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 8 |
| Released games | 37 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 7 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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 5456980% on the market, supply 65% more developers than 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.
- FPS
- effort 7 / 10 · low · effort 7 sits in the low band
- World War I
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 7 / 10 · big single-player or serious online
- Systems
- FPS
- Price point
- $14.99 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 $39.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 300,250 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 11 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Battlefield™ 1 2020 · $241M 
Verdun 2015 · $52M 
Isonzo 2022 · $17M 
Holdfast: Nations At War 2020 · $16M 
Tannenberg 2017 · $4.6M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Battlefield™ 1 | older | $39.99 | 200,661 86% | 6.0M | $241M (exactly $240,733,002) | DICE |
| | Verdun | older | $59.99 | 28,967 87% | 869k | $52M (exactly $52,131,910) | BlackMill Games |
| | Isonzo | older | $39.99 | 14,434 85% | 433k | $17M (exactly $17,316,470) | BlackMill Games |
| | Holdfast: Nations At War | older | $19.99 | 26,624 90% | 799k | $16M (exactly $15,966,413) | Anvil Game Studios |
| | Tannenberg | older | $19.99 | 7,644 86% | 229k | $4.6M (exactly $4,584,107) | Blackmill Games |
 | Over The Top: WWI | $19.14 | 6,683 84% | 200k | $3.8M (exactly $3,837,379) | Flying Squirrel Entertainment | |
 | Gallipoli | $29.99 | 4,015 78% | 120k | $3.6M (exactly $3,612,296) | BlackMill Games | |
 | Rising Front | $14.99 | 4,057 88% | 122k | $1.8M (exactly $1,824,433) | Sandstorm Studios Inc. | |
 | Beyond The Wire | older | $9.99 | 5,247 68% | 157k | $1.6M (exactly $1,572,526) | Redstone Interactive |
 | Battle of Empires : 1914-1918 | older | $8.99 | 1,918 68% | 58k | $517k (exactly $517,285) | Great War Team |
 | Beach Invasion 1915-Gallipoli | $7.99 | 73 71% | 2.2k | $17k (exactly $17,498) | AIx2 Games | |
 | Bolsheviktion 3D | $4.88 | 44 93% | 1.3k | $6.4k (exactly $6,442) | Pelican Blue Software | |
 | Operation Anatolia: The Great Offensive | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Musa Yiğit Yayla | |
 | hotland | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | AdamasZ | |
 | Chronicle Archive - Japan | · EA | $24.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Yugijitsu LLC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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