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Should I ship a WWII Puzzle game?
Puzzle + World War II
Only 10 developers shipped a WWII Puzzle 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, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 16 more are announced, ×8.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
Only 2 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $9.6k against a market of $630. 16 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $3.9k (exactly $3,892) |
|---|---|
| Median | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) |
| Top 25% | $251k (exactly $251,011) |
| Top 5% | $27M (exactly $27,417,883) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 10 |
| Released games | 62 |
| Announced | 16 |
| 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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 80% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Puzzle
- effort 2 / 10 · high · discrete rules, levels are data
- World War II
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Puzzle
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 89% positive over 14,874 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $3.9k. 7 in 10 of the 10 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 16 games are announced against 2 developers who shipped in the last year, ×8.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Puzzle with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Medical SimFair
- + Roguelike DeckbuilderFair
- + Escape RoomFair
- + VampiresFair
- + CatsFair
- + DemonsFair
- + God GameFair
- + RomanceFair
- + AutomationFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + LemmingsFair
Comparable games
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle 2024 · $27M 
Unity of Command II 2019 · $1.8M 
Deadfall Adventures 2013 · $784k 
Miss Neko 3 2022 · $401k 
Lunar Mirror:The Pavilion of Desire 2023 · $398k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle | $69.99 | 13,058 89% | 392k | $27M (exactly $27,417,883) | MachineGames | |
| | Unity of Command II | older | $29.99 | 2,042 79% | 61k | $1.8M (exactly $1,837,187) | 2x2 Games, Croteam |
| | Deadfall Adventures | older | $19.99 | 1,307 74% | 39k | $784k (exactly $783,808) | The Farm 51 |
| | Miss Neko 3 | older | $2.99 | 4,470 92% | 134k | $401k (exactly $400,959) | Double W |
| | Lunar Mirror:The Pavilion of Desire | older | $9.99 | 1,329 81% | 40k | $398k (exactly $398,301) | TUTGame |
 | 63 Days | $29.99 | 413 72% | 12k | $372k (exactly $371,576) | Destructive Creations | |
 | My Memory of Us | older | $17.99 | 632 92% | 19k | $341k (exactly $341,090) | Juggler Games |
 | TR-49 | $6.99 | 1,197 94% | 36k | $251k (exactly $251,011) | inkle Ltd | |
 | Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign | older | $9.99 | 808 78% | 24k | $242k (exactly $242,158) | 2x2 Games |
 | Save Jesus | older | $4.99 | 1,482 90% | 44k | $222k (exactly $221,855) | Almighty Games |
 | Blitzkrieg Express | $4.99 | 121 74% | 3.6k | $18k (exactly $18,114) | Maksym Melnyk | |
 | Salvation: Echoes of War | $19.99 | 16 93% | 480 | $9.6k (exactly $9,595) | Infinite Entropy | |
 | Sinking The Boats | $6.99 | 34 94% | 1.0k | $7.1k (exactly $7,130) | 孟夏Mengxia | |
 | .redruM | $4.99 | 26 69% | 780 | $3.9k (exactly $3,892) | Paul Alex M Samaniego | |
 | Atonement | $4.99 | 7 28% | 210 | $1.0k (exactly $1,048) | 几几不小心, 几几不小心 | |
 | Through the fog | $6.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $419 (exactly $419) | GDStudio | |
 | A Taste of History | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Mama Makes Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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