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Real Time Tactics + Hacking
Only 11 developers shipped a Hacking 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, Antivirus Girl, 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.
Verdict: fair, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $990, ×1.6 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $420. Revenue is up 140% on the market; 11 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $419 (exactly $419) |
|---|---|
| Median | $987 (exactly $987) |
| Top 25% | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) |
| Top 5% | $41k (exactly $40,509) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 27 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 140% on the market, supply 165% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, 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
- Hacking
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Real Time Tactics
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 86% positive over 247 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $420. 11 games are announced against 8 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + MechsPoor odds
- + Vehicular CombatPoor odds
- + God GamePoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
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Comparable games
Duskers 2016 · $1.4M 
Counter Terrorist Agency 2019 · $287k 
JUSTICE SUCKS: Tactical Vacuum Action 2022 · $119k 
Dream Hacker 2022 · $109k 
Cyber Ops 2020 · $49k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Duskers | older | $19.99 | 2,304 90% | 69k | $1.4M (exactly $1,381,709) | Misfits Attic |
| | Counter Terrorist Agency | older | $19.99 | 479 43% | 14k | $287k (exactly $287,256) | Play2Chill |
| | JUSTICE SUCKS: Tactical Vacuum Action | older | $19.99 | 199 95% | 6.0k | $119k (exactly $119,340) | Samurai Punk |
| | Dream Hacker | older | $6.99 | 518 84% | 16k | $109k (exactly $108,625) | Playmeow |
| | Cyber Ops | older | $14.99 | 108 42% | 3.2k | $49k (exactly $48,568) | Octeto Studios |
 | Antivirus Girl | $7.99 | 169 88% | 5.1k | $41k (exactly $40,509) | Chowbie | |
 | Deadnaut | older | $9.99 | 128 67% | 3.8k | $38k (exactly $38,362) | Screwfly Studios |
 | City Eye | older | $9.99 | 73 32% | 2.2k | $22k (exactly $21,878) | · |
 | Kinetype | · EA | $6.99 | 36 83% | 1.1k | $7.5k (exactly $7,549) | Morlytic |
 | NULLPTR | $14.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Jeferson Silva | |
 | LYMBUS | $9.99 | 11 90% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Happy Accident Studios | |
 | Cloud Server Simulator | · EA | $9.99 | 4 25% | 120 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | Realityocean Games |
 | Coreward | $2.99 | 11 72% | 330 | $987 (exactly $987) | carllacan | |
 | Botomy | $14.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $899 (exactly $899) | Brokkli Labs LLC | |
 | Mod Mage Mike | $6.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | ZilpZilp Games | |
 | Web Wars | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Phantom Jelly Studio | |
 | Command.Override | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Unknown Shadow Games, Robot Megalodon |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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