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Should I ship a Physics Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Physics
Of 61 developers who shipped a Physics 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.. 149 more are announced, ×5.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $300 in the last 2 years and $420 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 30 developers shipped in the last year and 149 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $90 (exactly $90) |
|---|---|
| Median | $300 (exactly $300) |
| Top 25% | $3.1k (exactly $3,055) |
| Top 5% | $134k (exactly $133,733) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 61 |
| Released games | 184 |
| Announced | 149 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| 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 80% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 18%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Real Time Tactics
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Physics
- effort 5 / 10 · low · emergent simulation bugs need hands-on tuning
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Real Time Tactics, Physics; 7 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Simulation, Strategy
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Realistic
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 68% positive over 2,903 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $90. 9 in 10 of the 36 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 149 games are announced against 30 developers who shipped in the last year, ×5.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
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Phantom Brigade 2023 · $4.0M 
Creeper World 4 2020 · $3.4M 
Endorphin Vice 2022 · EA · $1.0M 
Creeper World IXE 2024 · $513k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Nuclear Option | · EA older | $19.99 | 10,275 95% | 308k | $6.2M (exactly $6,161,917) | Shockfront Studios |
| | Phantom Brigade | older | $29.99 | 4,412 81% | 132k | $4.0M (exactly $3,969,476) | Brace Yourself Games |
| | Creeper World 4 | older | $24.99 | 4,553 94% | 137k | $3.4M (exactly $3,413,384) | Knuckle Cracker |
| | Endorphin Vice | · EA older | $9.99 | 3,436 56% | 103k | $1.0M (exactly $1,029,769) | Endorphin Studios |
| | Creeper World IXE | $19.99 | 855 69% | 26k | $513k (exactly $512,743) | Knuckle Cracker | |
 | Dungeon Warfare 3 | $18.99 | 679 78% | 20k | $387k (exactly $386,826) | Excidium Inc., Valsar | |
 | Ratten Reich | $19.99 | 616 40% | 18k | $369k (exactly $369,415) | METALLADLERSTUDIO | |
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 | College Bowl | older | $24.99 | 263 84% | 7.9k | $197k (exactly $197,171) | Super Pixel Games |
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 | Motion Soccer PRO | $19.99 | 223 79% | 6.7k | $134k (exactly $133,733) | Ivanovich Games | |
 | Toy Tactics | $24.99 | 121 91% | 3.6k | $91k (exactly $90,714) | Kraken Empire | |
 | ITER-8 | $12.99 | 161 70% | 4.8k | $63k (exactly $62,742) | fluckyMachine | |
 | Electro Bop Boxing League | $14.99 | 84 79% | 2.5k | $38k (exactly $37,775) | Developer Dob | |
 | Tales Of Glory 4 : Ragnarok | · EA | $29.99 | 31 83% | 930 | $28k (exactly $27,891) | BlackTale Games |
 | SALVO | $11.99 | 54 77% | 1.6k | $19k (exactly $19,424) | Erdem Şahin, Naim Ozcan | |
 | Boxing Simulator | $7.99 | 79 79% | 2.4k | $19k (exactly $18,936) | Inogames |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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