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God Game + Tactical RPG
Only 9 developers shipped a paid God Game Tactical RPG 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, ELARIENNE, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 4 in 10 of the games here are free to play and sit outside these figures. 8 more are announced.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $540, ×0.9 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $59; 1 in 20 cleared $22k, ×35 the market median. Revenue is down 90% on the market; 8 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $59 (exactly $59) |
|---|---|
| Median | $539 (exactly $539) |
| Top 25% | $10k (exactly $10,190) |
| Top 5% | $22k (exactly $22,292) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 9 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 8 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 90% on the market, supply 25% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 40%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- God Game
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Tactical RPG
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- God Game, Tactical RPG
- Price point
- $8.99 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 $14.99 or above; the middle game at $8.99.
The top 10 games average 73% positive over 1,079 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $59. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 8 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
God Game with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
Darwinia 2005 · $281k 
Cyber Ops 2020 · $49k 
ELARIENNE 2025 · $22k 
Scarecropia 2025 · $13k 
Soulbound Roguelike 2026 · $10k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Darwinia | older | $11.99 | 781 78% | 23k | $281k (exactly $280,926) | Introversion Software |
| | Cyber Ops | older | $14.99 | 108 42% | 3.2k | $49k (exactly $48,568) | Octeto Studios |
| | 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 | |
| | Soulbound Roguelike | $9.99 | 34 82% | 1.0k | $10k (exactly $10,190) | DuDu Games | |
 | GoodGod | $9.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Malte Lehmann | |
 | Project Martians | older | $7.99 | 3 33% | 90 | $719 (exactly $719) | Stanislaw Dev |
 | CodeWar Kingdom | $8.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $539 (exactly $539) | NULL. | |
 | Pixel Slayer | older | $0.99 | 11 27% | 330 | $327 (exactly $327) | PaulArt |
 | Cyber Prison Management | older | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Michael Richard Lannon |
 | SINGULARITY | $8.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $270 (exactly $270) | xzx | |
 | Save stray cats | $0.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | stray cat | |
 | Element Warriors | $2.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | DPlay Game | |
 | Enlil: Rise Of the End | · EA | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | HAPPYTECH |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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