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Should I ship a Wargame Hero Shooter?
Hero Shooter + Wargame
Only 12 developers shipped a Wargame Hero Shooter 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, Heroes of Valor, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×4.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 9 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $60, under ×0.1 the market's $1.3k for a 9 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 21 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.2 per shipper, while revenue is up 85% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $60 (exactly $60) |
| Top 25% | $2.2k (exactly $2,242) |
| Top 5% | $595k (exactly $595,403) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 74 |
| Announced | 21 |
| Effort | 9 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 up 85% on the market, supply 30% 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
- Wargame
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 9 / 10 · studio only
- Systems
- Hero Shooter, Wargame
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 90% positive over 1,418 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 5 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hero Shooter with a different second tag, 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
Heroes of Valor 2025 · EA · $595k 
Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque 2022 · $418k 
AXYOS 2018 · $244k 
Heroic Armored Company 2020 · EA · $94k 
Rescue Operation 2021 · $30k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | 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 |
| | AXYOS | older | $4.99 | 1,629 52% | 49k | $244k (exactly $243,861) | Axyos Games |
| | Heroic Armored Company | · EA older | $16.99 | 185 56% | 5.6k | $94k (exactly $94,294) | Magicvalley Studio（魔法谷工作室） |
| | Rescue Operation | older | $3.99 | 253 87% | 7.6k | $30k (exactly $30,284) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | J15 Jet Fighter VR (歼15舰载机) | · EA older | $9.99 | 44 47% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $13,187) | Magicvalley Studio |
 | Desert Special Forces | older | $19.99 | 20 65% | 600 | $12k (exactly $11,994) | Gamesforgames |
 | Witch Epoch | older | $24.99 | 12 91% | 360 | $9.0k (exactly $8,996) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Deadfall | older | $9.99 | 29 93% | 870 | $8.7k (exactly $8,691) | BekkerDev Studio |
 | Nuclear Fighter | older | $24.99 | 11 81% | 330 | $8.2k (exactly $8,247) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Survalker | $9.99 | 14 85% | 420 | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) | Gamesforgames | |
 | Rayadillo | · EA | $2.99 | 25 84% | 750 | $2.2k (exactly $2,242) | Rayadillo Games |
 | Story of the Olivia | $12.99 | 4 0% | 120 | $1.6k (exactly $1,559) | Uğur ÇELİK | |
 | MEMOLOGY: ITALIAN MEME WAR | $0.99 | 45 97% | 1.4k | $1.3k (exactly $1,336) | Piece Of Voxel, Gamesforfarm | |
 | Lucky Pikinini - IMS Intelligence Corp | $1.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $60 (exactly $60) | Lucky Pikinini | |
 | 小小士兵 | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | 小士兵, nico | |
 | Void Breaker | $0.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | AA Mini Games Studio | |
 | Turn Back The Powers Of Darkness | $0.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $30 (exactly $30) | 优博学智能科技 | |
 | PAATH-Z | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | TVirtual Studios |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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