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Should I ship a Platformer Turn-Based Tactics?
Turn-Based Tactics + Platformer
Only 15 developers shipped a Platformer Turn-Based Tactics 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, Portal Fantasy, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 18 more are announced.
Verdict: long shot, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360, ×0.6 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, but 1 in 20 cleared $94k, ×150 the market median. Revenue is up 650% on the market; 18 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $360 (exactly $360) |
| Top 25% | $718 (exactly $718) |
| Top 5% | $94k (exactly $94,437) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 15 |
| Released games | 50 |
| Announced | 18 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 650% on the market, supply 100% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 10%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Turn-Based Tactics
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Platformer
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Turn-Based Tactics, Platformer
- Price point
- $4.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 70% positive over 283 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 9 in 10 of the 8 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 18 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Monster Sanctuary 2020 · $6.2M 
RONIN 2015 · $629k 
Cursed to Golf 2022 · $416k 
Jam Jump 2024 · $107k 
Portal Fantasy 2025 · $94k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Monster Sanctuary | older | $19.99 | 10,416 91% | 312k | $6.2M (exactly $6,246,475) | moi rai games |
| | RONIN | older | $12.99 | 1,613 71% | 48k | $629k (exactly $628,586) | Tomasz Wacławek |
| | Cursed to Golf | older | $19.99 | 693 70% | 21k | $416k (exactly $415,592) | Chuhai Labs |
| | Jam Jump | older | $39.99 | 89 86% | 2.7k | $107k (exactly $106,773) | Galactic Geckon |
| | Portal Fantasy | $14.99 | 210 62% | 6.3k | $94k (exactly $94,437) | Portal Fantasy | |
 | Bearnard | older | $16.99 | 152 97% | 4.6k | $77k (exactly $77,474) | Michał Wikliński |
 | Supercow | older | $7.99 | 183 97% | 5.5k | $44k (exactly $43,865) | Nevosoft |
 | Magic Trap | older | $49.99 | 23 86% | 690 | $34k (exactly $34,493) | Gamesforgames |
 | Recon Control | older | $9.99 | 96 79% | 2.9k | $29k (exactly $28,771) | Dmitry Kozlov |
 | Boom Slingers | · EA older | $6.99 | 121 91% | 3.6k | $25k (exactly $25,374) | Boom Corp |
 | Lunars | · EA | $14.99 | 40 97% | 1.2k | $18k (exactly $17,988) | Anubis Arts |
 | Wriggle apple 4 | $2.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $897 (exactly $897) | WormWorld Studios, Sharkgame | |
 | Wriggle apple 2 | $2.99 | 8 87% | 240 | $718 (exactly $718) | WormWorld Studios, Sharkgame | |
 | GunBlocks | · EA | $6.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $629 (exactly $629) | Steve Welz |
 | Wriggle apple 3 | $2.99 | 7 85% | 210 | $628 (exactly $628) | WormWorld Studios | |
 | GØRKJES - finger food fighting | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Moritz Petzka, Basuramor | |
 | We Don't Cry: Zombie Survival | $11.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $360 (exactly $360) | Bored Alchemist | |
 | Arsica: Echoes of Ars | $10.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $330 (exactly $330) | Lignacia Production | |
 | Shaolin Strategy | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Wang Jile |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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