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Should I ship a Music Tactical game?
Tactical + Music
Only 7 developers shipped a Music Tactical 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, Bean Beasts, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 4 more are announced.
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 $450 against a market of $630. 4 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $449 (exactly $449) |
| Top 25% | $30k (exactly $29,987) |
| Top 5% | $47k (exactly $47,426) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 7 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 4 |
| 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 690% on the market, supply 35% more developers than 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.
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Tactical
- Price point
- $6.99 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 $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 6,983 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 4 games are announced against 4 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Tactical with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Football (American)Strong odds
- + Mystery DungeonStrong odds
- + Dating SimFair
- + 6DOFFair
- + Word GameFair
- + TypingFair
- + DwarvesFair
- + Traditional RoguelikeFair
- + Dynamic NarrationFair
- + Farming SimFair
- + SolitaireFair
- + LGBTQ+Fair
Comparable games
Party Hard 2 2018 · $1.5M 
Rock 'N' Roll Defense 2016 · $546k 
Beat Hazard 3 2024 · $351k 
Bean Beasts 2025 · $47k 
KAZ 2026 · $30k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Party Hard 2 | older | $19.99 | 2,419 78% | 73k | $1.5M (exactly $1,450,674) | Pinokl Games, Kverta, Hologryph |
| | Rock 'N' Roll Defense | older | $4.99 | 3,646 87% | 109k | $546k (exactly $545,806) | NukGames |
| | Beat Hazard 3 | older | $19.99 | 586 84% | 18k | $351k (exactly $351,424) | Cold Beam Games |
| | Bean Beasts | $13.99 | 113 89% | 3.4k | $47k (exactly $47,426) | Anxious Noob | |
| | KAZ | $6.99 | 143 94% | 4.3k | $30k (exactly $29,987) | Kalinarm | |
 | beVaiR | older | $29.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $3.6k (exactly $3,599) | Randalyn Rage UG (haftungsbeschränkt) |
 | Psyolence | older | $4.99 | 22 90% | 660 | $3.3k (exactly $3,293) | Fasu Studio |
 | Hentai Forest | older | $1.99 | 38 55% | 1.1k | $2.3k (exactly $2,269) | RewindApp |
 | The Comeback King | $10.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $2.0k (exactly $1,978) | Ian Williams | |
 | Lightning: D-Day | older | $9.99 | 6 66% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | HexWar Games |
 | Going Dark | $4.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $449 (exactly $449) | Sergiusz Stein | |
 | Grocer-Craze | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Wishful Animations LLC | |
 | KPOP SCOUT | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | 42 Long | |
 | Warlords of the Dying Age | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Kronarc Engine Collective |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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