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Should I ship a Psychological-Horror Wargame?
Wargame + Psychological Horror
Only 6 developers shipped a Psychological-Horror Wargame 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, ICBM: Escalation, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 2 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $2.0k against a market of $630. 2 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $537 (exactly $537) |
|---|---|
| Median | $2.0k (exactly $1,973) |
| Top 25% | $8.6k (exactly $8,626) |
| Top 5% | $1.1M (exactly $1,122,826) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 2 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 80% fewer 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.
- Wargame
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Psychological Horror
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Wargame
- Price point
- $4.99 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 $39.99 or above; the middle game at $3.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 12,250 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $540. 8 in 10 of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 2 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
Wargame with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + NavalFair
- + TabletopFair
- + LogicFair
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
- + DiplomacyPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
Comparable games
Cold Waters 2017 · $5.5M 
Solium Infernum 2024 · $1.9M 
ICBM: Escalation 2024 · $1.1M 
Rule the Waves 3 2023 · $1.0M 
The Light Remake 2020 · $219k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Cold Waters | older | $39.99 | 4,603 87% | 138k | $5.5M (exactly $5,522,219) | Killerfish Games |
| | Solium Infernum | older | $39.99 | 1,571 88% | 47k | $1.9M (exactly $1,884,729) | League of Geeks |
| | ICBM: Escalation | $29.99 | 1,248 86% | 37k | $1.1M (exactly $1,122,826) | SoftWarWare | |
| | Rule the Waves 3 | older | $39.99 | 855 87% | 26k | $1.0M (exactly $1,025,744) | Naval Warfare Simulations |
| | The Light Remake | older | $4.99 | 1,462 87% | 44k | $219k (exactly $218,861) | Носков Сергей |
 | Ultimate Arena | older | $7.99 | 811 83% | 24k | $194k (exactly $194,397) | Triverske |
 | ANIME - World War II | older | $1.99 | 1,059 80% | 32k | $63k (exactly $63,222) | Konnichiwa Games |
 | Raid on Taihoku | older | $12.99 | 151 82% | 4.5k | $59k (exactly $58,845) | Mizoriot Creative Company LTD., Fun2 St… (Mizoriot Creative Company LTD., Fun2 Studio CO., LTD.) |
 | Rescue Operation | older | $3.99 | 253 87% | 7.6k | $30k (exactly $30,284) | Laush Dmitriy Sergeevich |
 | Epstein | older | $3.99 | 237 67% | 7.1k | $28k (exactly $28,369) | GalaxyVerse |
 | Kamikaze Strike: FPV Drone | $5.99 | 48 83% | 1.4k | $8.6k (exactly $8,626) | Dinomore Games | |
 | The Bunker | $2.99 | 22 90% | 660 | $2.0k (exactly $1,973) | Cyber752 | |
 | DR4X | $0.99 | 34 88% | 1.0k | $1.0k (exactly $1,010) | Untrustedlife | |
 | Super Kingcrab Simulator | $1.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $537 (exactly $537) | !CyberApex (SkagoGames) | |
 | Warfront | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Michael Connelly, Drew Essary, Noah Llo… (Michael Connelly, Drew Essary, Noah Lloyd, Angello Sassarini) |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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