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Should I ship a Futuristic Tank game?
Tanks + Futuristic
Only 13 developers shipped a Futuristic Tank 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, FRONT MISSION 3: Remake, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 29 more are announced, ×3.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 9 developers shipped in the last year and 29 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $299 (exactly $299) |
| Top 25% | $898 (exactly $898) |
| Top 5% | $476k (exactly $475,514) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 62 |
| Announced | 29 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 80% on the market, supply 125% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Tanks
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Futuristic
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Tanks; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Top-Down Shooter, Arcade
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $34.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Pixel Graphics, Retro
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $34.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 9 games average 77% positive over 646 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 29 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Tanks with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + HistoricalFair
- + Turn-Based StrategyFair
- + Turn-Based TacticsFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + Open WorldFair
- + 2D PlatformerFair
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + Action RTSPoor odds
- + Real Time TacticsPoor odds
- + TacticalPoor odds
Comparable games
FRONT MISSION 1st: Remake 2023 · $782k 
FRONT MISSION 3: Remake 2026 · $476k 
FRONT MISSION 2: Remake 2024 · $366k 
Aircraft Evolution 2018 · $60k 
Dieselpunk Wars 2021 · $52k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | FRONT MISSION 1st: Remake | older | $34.99 | 745 77% | 22k | $782k (exactly $782,026) | Forever Entertainment S. A. |
| | FRONT MISSION 3: Remake | $34.99 | 453 74% | 14k | $476k (exactly $475,514) | MegaPixel Studio S.A. | |
| | FRONT MISSION 2: Remake | older | $34.99 | 349 57% | 10k | $366k (exactly $366,345) | Storm Trident S.A. |
| | Aircraft Evolution | older | $8.99 | 221 80% | 6.6k | $60k (exactly $59,604) | Satur Entertainment |
| | Dieselpunk Wars | older | $14.99 | 116 55% | 3.5k | $52k (exactly $52,165) | Image Power S.A., Roasted Games |
 | Battle Engine Aquila | older | $9.99 | 139 92% | 4.2k | $42k (exactly $41,658) | Lost Toys Ltd |
 | ReEarth | older | $7.99 | 116 74% | 3.5k | $28k (exactly $27,805) | Jiangzuogongfang Shanghai Game Co.,Ltd |
 | BROTANK | $4.99 | 153 81% | 4.6k | $23k (exactly $22,904) | Dfirend Games | |
 | Shrot | older | $6.99 | 109 89% | 3.3k | $23k (exactly $22,857) | Spytihněv |
 | Vektor Wars | older | $9.99 | 39 76% | 1.2k | $12k (exactly $11,688) | Integer Overflow |
 | Exo Wanderers | · EA | $11.99 | 22 100% | 660 | $7.9k (exactly $7,913) | 什工坊SueStudio |
 | Griffin 「グリフォン」 | $5.99 | 5 80% | 150 | $898 (exactly $898) | Ratalaika Games S.L., Shinyuden | |
 | Tread Heavy | $3.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $598 (exactly $598) | Nos Games LTD | |
 | Nyassembled! | · EA | $8.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $539 (exactly $539) | K. N. Factory |
 | Soul Machine | $4.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Zanarka Studio | |
 | Warscape Alpha | $2.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $90 (exactly $90) | Future-B Games | |
 | Golgalian | $0.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | Atael | |
 | Krieg | · EA | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | EliteInterapptive |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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