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Should I ship a War Hero Shooter?
Hero Shooter + War
Of 25 developers who shipped a War Hero Shooter in the last 2 years: 3 in 10 made under est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., the middle one made est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 4 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method., 1 in 20 cleared est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 38 more are announced, ×3.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 9 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $420 over 4, against a market of $1.3k for a 9 / 10 build. 11 developers shipped in the last year and 38 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $59 (exactly $59) |
|---|---|
| Median | $359 (exactly $359) |
| Top 25% | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) |
| Top 5% | $595k (exactly $595,403) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 25 |
| Released games | 113 |
| Announced | 38 |
| Effort | 9 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 350% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hero Shooter
- effort 9 / 10 · low · competitive netcode plus hero balance and content cadence
- War
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 9 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Hero Shooter; 7 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Shooter, Action-Adventure
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with First-Person, Third Person, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 74% positive over 5,559 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $59. 9 in 10 of the 21 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 38 games are announced against 11 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hero Shooter with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + SimulationLong shot
- + Bullet HellLong shot
- + Boomer ShooterLong shot
- + MedievalLong shot
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + SuperheroPoor odds
- + Battle RoyalePoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + PvPPoor odds
- + PlatformerPoor odds
- + Character CustomizationPoor odds
- + PhysicsPoor odds
Comparable games
Battlefield™ 2042 2021 · $468M 
Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare 2016 · $31M 
Crysis 3 Remastered 2022 · $7.0M 
Wild Assault 2026 · $1.7M 
TRIBES 3: Rivals 2024 · EA · $794k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Battlefield™ 2042 | older | $59.99 | 260,308 49% | 7.8M | $468M (exactly $468,476,308) | DICE |
| | Call of Duty®: Infinite Warfare | older | $59.99 | 17,489 65% | 525k | $31M (exactly $31,474,953) | Infinity Ward |
| | Crysis 3 Remastered | older | $29.99 | 7,731 88% | 232k | $7.0M (exactly $6,955,581) | Crytek, Saber Interactive |
| | Wild Assault | $14.99 | 3,861 68% | 116k | $1.7M (exactly $1,736,292) | Combat Cat Studio | |
| | TRIBES 3: Rivals | · EA older | $19.99 | 1,324 61% | 40k | $794k (exactly $794,003) | Prophecy Games |
 | Heroes of Valor | · EA | $14.99 | 1,324 90% | 40k | $595k (exactly $595,403) | Fancy Cat Interactive |
 | Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque | older | $14.99 | 930 96% | 28k | $418k (exactly $418,221) | Nidal Nijm Games |
 | Eximius: Seize the Frontline | older | $19.99 | 511 74% | 15k | $306k (exactly $306,447) | Ammobox Studios |
 | AXYOS | older | $4.99 | 1,629 52% | 49k | $244k (exactly $243,861) | Axyos Games |
 | BE-A Walker | older | $9.99 | 651 72% | 20k | $195k (exactly $195,105) | Tequilabyte Studio |
 | Operation Night Strikers | $24.99 | 48 77% | 1.4k | $36k (exactly $35,986) | M2 Co., Ltd. | |
 | Melted Valor | $7.99 | 52 94% | 1.6k | $12k (exactly $12,464) | Code 33 Productions | |
 | Gun Reflex VR | $8.99 | 42 61% | 1.3k | $11k (exactly $11,327) | OBGames | |
 | Kebabstar 🌯⭐ | · EA | $14.99 | 14 78% | 420 | $6.3k (exactly $6,296) | Zeybek |
 | Just Skill Shooter 4 | $9.99 | 17 76% | 510 | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) | Gamesforgames | |
 | Just Skill Shooter: Catacombs | $9.99 | 17 64% | 510 | $5.1k (exactly $5,095) | Gamesforgames | |
 | Hitler is My Crush: Love and Fascism | $0.99 | 146 88% | 4.4k | $4.3k (exactly $4,336) | DarkLight Studio | |
 | Doom Survivor: Horde Rush | $2.99 | 38 86% | 1.1k | $3.4k (exactly $3,409) | Crazy Studio |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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