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Should I ship a Hex Grid Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Hex Grid
Only 16 developers shipped a Hex Grid 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, Ascension, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 34 more are announced, ×5.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $270 in the last 2 years and $300 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 6 developers shipped in the last year and 34 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $269 (exactly $269) |
| Top 25% | $7.2k (exactly $7,193) |
| Top 5% | $1.5M (exactly $1,461,469) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 16 |
| Released games | 41 |
| Announced | 34 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| 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 45% on the market, supply 40% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, 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
- Hex Grid
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Real Time Tactics, Hex Grid
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 61% positive over 2,546 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. 9 in 10 of the 11 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 34 games are announced against 6 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.7 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
- + God GamePoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
Comparable games
Crying Suns 2019 · $2.4M 
Ascension 2025 · EA · $1.5M 
WARTILE 2018 · $360k 
Age of Undead 2022 · $48k 
Role of Hex 2023 · $28k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Crying Suns | older | $24.99 | 3,149 85% | 94k | $2.4M (exactly $2,360,805) | Alt Shift |
| | Ascension | · EA | $19.99 | 2,437 60% | 73k | $1.5M (exactly $1,461,469) | Element Game 微元游戏 |
| | WARTILE | older | $19.99 | 601 75% | 18k | $360k (exactly $360,420) | Playwood Project |
| | Age of Undead | older | $19.99 | 80 76% | 2.4k | $48k (exactly $47,976) | Insane Dreamers |
| | Role of Hex | older | $9.99 | 93 69% | 2.8k | $28k (exactly $27,872) | Verde |
 | Combat Directive : Napoleonic Wars | $19.99 | 36 88% | 1.1k | $22k (exactly $21,589) | Fatice Games | |
 | World Turtles | older | $12.99 | 45 62% | 1.4k | $18k (exactly $17,536) | Re: cOg Mission |
 | Glassbreakers: Champions of Moss | $19.99 | 22 63% | 660 | $13k (exactly $13,193) | Polyarc | |
 | They Came From Below | older | $24.99 | 17 58% | 510 | $13k (exactly $12,745) | Piece Of Voxel |
 | Tribe Nation | $9.99 | 24 79% | 720 | $7.2k (exactly $7,193) | Random Worlds s.r.o. | |
 | America Against Ants | $14.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) | Aartform Games, Mark Brendan | |
 | Settle and Battle: New Empires | $6.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $1.9k (exactly $1,887) | Attic Games Studio | |
 | Tiny Kings | · EA | $4.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Floating Chicken Games |
 | Supreme Power | $2.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $269 (exactly $269) | Samuel Parker | |
 | Last Throne | · EA | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | LKHGames |
 | Bubblecore: Survivors | $3.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $239 (exactly $239) | King Suslik Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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