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Should I ship a Mining Turn-Based Strategy?
Turn-Based Strategy + Mining
Only 10 developers shipped a Mining Turn-Based Strategy 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, Hold The Mine, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $4.5k, ×7.2 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $1.5k. Revenue is up 440% on the market; 14 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) |
|---|---|
| Median | $4.5k (exactly $4,497) |
| Top 25% | $9.6k (exactly $9,590) |
| Top 5% | $152k (exactly $151,999) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 28 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 440% on the market, supply 135% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 11%, 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
- Mining
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Turn-Based Strategy, Mining
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 81% positive over 620 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $1.5k. 14 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Turn-Based Strategy with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Cold WarFair
- + RomeFair
- + LootFair
- + DwarvesFair
- + IdlerFair
- + Asynchronous MultiplayerFair
- + TanksFair
- + SokobanFair
- + Top-Down ShooterFair
- + SpaceFair
- + SteampunkFair
Comparable games
Turmoil 2016 · $5.1M 
Hold The Mine 2026 · EA · $152k 
Anoxia Station 2025 · $80k 
The Sealed Ampoule 2021 · $34k 
The Grindstone 2023 · $18k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Turmoil | older | $12.99 | 13,154 92% | 395k | $5.1M (exactly $5,126,114) | Gamious |
| | Hold The Mine | · EA | $14.99 | 338 83% | 10k | $152k (exactly $151,999) | Hookaria Games |
| | Anoxia Station | $14.99 | 179 76% | 5.4k | $80k (exactly $80,496) | Bonereaders | |
| | The Sealed Ampoule | older | $19.99 | 56 80% | 1.7k | $34k (exactly $33,583) | CAVYHOUSE |
| | The Grindstone | older | $19.99 | 30 86% | 900 | $18k (exactly $17,991) | Wolfs Moon Studios |
 | Grim wanderings 2 | older | $5.99 | 72 76% | 2.2k | $13k (exactly $12,938) | Ellinia games |
 | Upgradia | · EA | $9.99 | 32 65% | 960 | $9.6k (exactly $9,590) | Mytharia |
 | King's Subsidy | $11.99 | 15 80% | 450 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Marcin Henzel | |
 | 3D Hentai Chess | older | $1.99 | 81 50% | 2.4k | $4.8k (exactly $4,836) | Flying. Stone. Production |
 | Rutrum | $14.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $4.5k (exactly $4,497) | uncertainkey | |
 | Dataminers | $6.99 | 21 95% | 630 | $4.4k (exactly $4,404) | Electrocosmos | |
 | 帝缚山海 | · EA | $4.99 | 10 80% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | 赤月抉择 |
 | Mining Grounds | $2.99 | 15 80% | 450 | $1.3k (exactly $1,346) | Jestercraft | |
 | Traveler: Set Sail | $3.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Shyan Wei | |
 | Aditore | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Gadget Node Games LLC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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