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Should I ship an LGBTQ+ Turn-Based Strategy?
Turn-Based Strategy + LGBTQ+
Of 36 developers who shipped an LGBTQ+ Turn-Based Strategy 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.. 44 more are announced, ×2.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $16k, ×26 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $2.4k; 1 in 20 cleared $3.2M, ×5113 the market median. Revenue is down 35% on the market; 44 games are announced against 19 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $2.4k (exactly $2,399) |
|---|---|
| Median | $16k (exactly $16,195) |
| Top 25% | $55k (exactly $54,573) |
| Top 5% | $3.2M (exactly $3,210,858) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 36 |
| Released games | 91 |
| Announced | 44 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $17.99 |
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 down 35% on the market, supply as many developers as 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.
- Turn-Based Strategy
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- LGBTQ+
- effort 2 / 10 · high · effort 2 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Turn-Based Strategy; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, RPG, Adventure
- Price point
- $17.99 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Anime, 2D, Cartoon
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $17.99.
The top 10 games average 91% positive over 31,081 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $2.4k. 8 in 10 of the 20 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 44 games are announced against 19 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Turn-Based Strategy with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + WuxiaFair
- + Cold WarFair
- + RomeFair
- + LootFair
- + MiningFair
- + DwarvesFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Asynchronous MultiplayerFair
- + TanksFair
- + SokobanFair
- + Top-Down ShooterFair
- + SpaceFair
Comparable games
Sultan's Game 2025 · $19M 
XCOM®: Chimera Squad 2020 · $6.2M 
Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition 2024 · $3.2M 
The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily 2025 · $1.4M 
60 Parsecs! 2018 · $992k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Sultan's Game | $24.99 | 25,061 93% | 752k | $19M (exactly $18,788,232) | Double Cross | |
| | XCOM®: Chimera Squad | older | $9.99 | 20,602 71% | 618k | $6.2M (exactly $6,174,419) | Firaxis Games |
| | Ara History Untold: Anniversary Edition | $49.99 | 2,141 68% | 64k | $3.2M (exactly $3,210,858) | Oxide Games | |
| | The Great Villainess: Strategy of Lily | $29.99 | 1,529 85% | 46k | $1.4M (exactly $1,375,641) | Alliance Arts, One or Eight, WSS Playgr… (Alliance Arts, One or Eight, WSS Playground) | |
| | 60 Parsecs! | older | $9.99 | 3,310 90% | 99k | $992k (exactly $992,007) | Robot Gentleman |
 | Pronoun Palace | $19.84 | 1,249 99% | 37k | $743k (exactly $743,405) | Cadence Petersen, Hazel Fackler | |
 | Resist the succubus—The end of the female Knight | older | $16.99 | 1,370 74% | 41k | $698k (exactly $698,289) | BoRoBoRoGame |
 | Capes | older | $39.99 | 446 67% | 13k | $535k (exactly $535,066) | Spitfire Interactive |
 | Robolife2 - Nova Duty | older | $14.99 | 691 89% | 21k | $311k (exactly $310,743) | Barance Studio |
 | Latex Dungeon | older | $9.99 | 969 82% | 29k | $290k (exactly $290,409) | GODNASK, ZXC |
 | 神树残响（Echoes of the Divine Tree） | $11.99 | 601 94% | 18k | $216k (exactly $216,180) | Seventeen horns | |
 | Maliki : Poison Of The Past | $29.99 | 95 93% | 2.9k | $85k (exactly $85,472) | Blue Banshee | |
 | Bonnie Bear Saves Frogtime | $16.99 | 143 98% | 4.3k | $73k (exactly $72,887) | Bonte Avond | |
 | Gales of Nayeli | $24.99 | 87 88% | 2.6k | $65k (exactly $65,224) | Blindcoco Studios | |
 | Hyperspace Deck Command | $19.99 | 91 95% | 2.7k | $55k (exactly $54,573) | Sleeper Games | |
 | Nova Hearts | $19.99 | 84 67% | 2.5k | $50k (exactly $50,375) | Lightbulb Crew |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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