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Should I ship a Military Score Attack game?
Score Attack + Military
Of 31 developers who shipped a Military Score Attack game 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.. 30 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300 in the last 2 years and $480 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 24 developers shipped in the last year and 30 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $1.3k (exactly $1,258) |
| Top 5% | $79k (exactly $78,821) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 31 |
| Released games | 106 |
| Announced | 30 |
| 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 795% on the market, supply 245% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Score Attack
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- Military
- 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
- Score Attack; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Arcade, Shooter
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, 3D, Side Scroller
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 707 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. 9 in 10 of the 9 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 30 games are announced against 24 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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AFTERBURN 2019 · $96k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Counter-Strike | older | $9.99 | 169,780 96% | 5.1M | $51M (exactly $50,883,066) | Valve |
| | Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory | older | $9.99 | 618 89% | 19k | $185k (exactly $185,215) | Rockodile |
| | MUSYNX:RETURN | $19.99 | 284 74% | 8.5k | $170k (exactly $170,315) | I-Inferno | |
| | Toy Soldiers: HD | older | $29.99 | 125 62% | 3.8k | $112k (exactly $112,462) | Signal Studios, Outer Heaven, Eden Indu… (Signal Studios, Outer Heaven, Eden Industries) |
| | AFTERBURN | older | $9.99 | 321 87% | 9.6k | $96k (exactly $96,204) | MorfeoDev |
 | TOP DOG | $9.99 | 263 88% | 7.9k | $79k (exactly $78,821) | MorfeoDev | |
 | Raiden Legacy - Steam Edition | older | $9.99 | 259 54% | 7.8k | $78k (exactly $77,622) | Dotemu |
 | Furious Angels | older | $4.99 | 345 87% | 10k | $52k (exactly $51,646) | MorfeoDev |
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 | ModernFire | · EA | $9.99 | 21 90% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | FireLineGames |
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 | Front Line | $2.00 | 47 100% | 1.4k | $2.8k (exactly $2,820) | D.IKUSHIMA | |
 | Scouts Out | $6.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.3k (exactly $1,258) | Rotating Games | |
 | Blast Horizon | $12.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $1.2k (exactly $1,169) | Gil Zussman | |
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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