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Should I ship a Magic Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Magic
Of 89 developers who shipped a Magic Real Time Tactics 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.. 194 more are announced, ×3.8 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, level with the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $77k, ×123 the market median. Revenue is up 100% on the market; 194 games are announced against 51 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $598 (exactly $598) |
| Top 25% | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) |
| Top 5% | $77k (exactly $77,478) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 89 |
| Released games | 256 |
| Announced | 194 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 100% on the market, supply 30% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, 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
- Magic
- 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; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, RTS, Tactical
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $21.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Top-Down, 2D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $21.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 71% positive over 3,761 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. Nearly all of the 49 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 194 games are announced against 51 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.8 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different setting or mood, 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
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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