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Should I ship a God Game Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + God Game
Only 19 developers shipped a God Game Real Time Tactics 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, JIANGHU CHRONICLES, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 32 more are announced, ×3.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $7.8k, ×12 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $300; 1 in 20 cleared $1.1M, ×1758 the market median. Revenue is up 95% on the market; 32 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $300 (exactly $300) |
|---|---|
| Median | $7.8k (exactly $7,759) |
| Top 25% | $29k (exactly $29,144) |
| Top 5% | $1.1M (exactly $1,104,226) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 82 |
| Announced | 32 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 95% on the market, supply 10% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, 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
- God Game
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Real Time Tactics, God Game; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Simulation, Base Building, Action
- Price point
- $9.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Colorful
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $9.99.
The top 10 games average 76% positive over 3,407 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. All of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 32 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Vehicular CombatPoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
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Comparable games
Dungeons 3 2017 · $11M 
Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2 2023 · $4.3M 
JIANGHU CHRONICLES 2025 · $1.1M 
MINOS 2026 · $294k 
Darwinia 2005 · $281k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Dungeons 3 | older | $29.99 | 12,648 93% | 379k | $11M (exactly $11,379,406) | Realmforge Studios |
| | Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2 | older | $19.99 | 7,206 84% | 216k | $4.3M (exactly $4,321,438) | Brilliant Game Studios |
| | JIANGHU CHRONICLES | $17.99 | 2,046 70% | 61k | $1.1M (exactly $1,104,226) | 一品阁 | |
| | MINOS | $17.99 | 544 88% | 16k | $294k (exactly $293,597) | Artificer | |
| | Darwinia | older | $11.99 | 781 78% | 23k | $281k (exactly $280,926) | Introversion Software |
 | Fox Sex Farm | $17.99 | 413 82% | 12k | $223k (exactly $222,896) | R's | |
 | Dungeon Keeper™ 2 | older | $4.99 | 1,253 92% | 38k | $188k (exactly $187,574) | Bullfrog Productions |
 | Dungeon Keeper Gold™ | older | $4.99 | 591 92% | 18k | $88k (exactly $88,473) | Bullfrog Productions |
 | rymdkapsel | older | $7.99 | 230 81% | 6.9k | $55k (exactly $55,131) | grapefrukt games |
 | Cyber Ops | older | $14.99 | 108 42% | 3.2k | $49k (exactly $48,568) | Octeto Studios |
 | Underworld Overseer | $19.99 | 52 90% | 1.6k | $31k (exactly $31,184) | Myron Games | |
 | Myths and Legends | $17.99 | 54 92% | 1.6k | $29k (exactly $29,144) | Artificial Worlds | |
 | ダンジョンに生息だ！ | $7.99 | 112 90% | 3.4k | $27k (exactly $26,846) | ドクローネ | |
 | ELARIENNE | $7.99 | 93 61% | 2.8k | $22k (exactly $22,292) | JDL | |
 | Scarecropia | $9.99 | 42 88% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $12,587) | JYP Studio | |
 | Fantasy World / 幻想世界 | $19.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $8.4k (exactly $8,396) | Fantasy Studio | |
 | Idle Together | $6.99 | 37 75% | 1.1k | $7.8k (exactly $7,759) | Eragone |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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