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Should I ship a WWII Hex Grid game?
Hex Grid + World War II
Only 5 developers shipped a WWII Hex Grid game 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, America Against Ants, 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, ×2.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 4 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $1.2k against a market of $630. 11 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $480 (exactly $480) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) |
| Top 25% | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) |
| Top 5% | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 66 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 300% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 6%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Hex Grid
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
- World War II
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Hex Grid
- Price point
- $14.99 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 $39.99 or above; the middle game at $15.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 11,649 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $480. 11 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Hex Grid with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + Open WorldPoor odds
- + Post-apocalypticPoor odds
- + Turn-BasedPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
- + ExplorationPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
- + Strategy RPGPoor odds
- + 4XPoor odds
- + Card BattlerPoor odds
- + RoguelitePoor odds
- + RoguelikePoor odds
Comparable games
Panzer Corps 2 2020 · $4.2M 
Panzer Corps Gold 2014 · $2.0M 
Unity of Command II 2019 · $1.8M 
The Troop 2023 · $979k 
Hex of Steel 2020 · $647k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Panzer Corps 2 | older | $39.99 | 3,512 84% | 105k | $4.2M (exactly $4,213,346) | Flashback Games |
| | Panzer Corps Gold | older | $29.99 | 2,227 91% | 67k | $2.0M (exactly $2,003,632) | Flashback Games, The Lordz Games Studio |
| | Unity of Command II | older | $29.99 | 2,042 79% | 61k | $1.8M (exactly $1,837,187) | 2x2 Games, Croteam |
| | The Troop | older | $39.99 | 816 83% | 24k | $979k (exactly $978,955) | Giant Flame |
| | Hex of Steel | older | $24.99 | 863 95% | 26k | $647k (exactly $646,991) | War Frogs Studio |
 | Second Front | older | $34.99 | 613 78% | 18k | $643k (exactly $643,466) | Hexdraw |
 | Strategic Command WWII: World at War | older | $39.99 | 519 84% | 16k | $623k (exactly $622,644) | Fury Software |
 | Strategic Command WWII: War in Europe | older | $39.99 | 333 90% | 10k | $400k (exactly $399,500) | Fury Software |
 | Panzer Strategy | older | $29.99 | 437 64% | 13k | $393k (exactly $393,169) | Starni Games |
 | The Operational Art of War IV | older | $39.99 | 287 78% | 8.6k | $344k (exactly $344,314) | TrickeySoft LLC |
 | America Against Ants | $14.99 | 9 100% | 270 | $4.0k (exactly $4,047) | Aartform Games, Mark Brendan | |
 | Panzer Commander | $6.99 | 12 100% | 360 | $2.5k (exactly $2,516) | Fancing Game Studio | |
 | Broken Front | $4.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $1.2k (exactly $1,198) | KOArtist Games | |
 | Grenadier Command | · EA | $15.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $480 (exactly $480) | kratijun |
 | WEGO World War II: Desert War | $39.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | BK Wargames |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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