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Should I ship a WWI PvP game?
PvP + World War I
Only 12 developers shipped a WWI PvP 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, Over The Top: WWI, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 14 more are announced.
Verdict: fair, for a 8 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.3k, ×0.9 the market's $1.5k for a 8 / 10 build, with 3 in 10 under $150. Momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games; 14 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $150 (exactly $150) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) |
| Top 25% | $1.0M (exactly $1,042,752) |
| Top 5% | $3.8M (exactly $3,837,379) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 12 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 14 |
| Effort | 8 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Low |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 400% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 8%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is low: the lowest rating among its tags.
- PvP
- effort 8 / 10 · low · authoritative servers, latency compensation, cheating
- World War I
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 8 / 10 · online systems, open world
- Systems
- PvP
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 10 games average 80% positive over 14,944 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $150. 14 games are announced against 10 developers who shipped in the last year.
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Comparable games
Battlefield™ 1 2020 · $241M 
Verdun 2015 · $52M 
Isonzo 2022 · $17M 
Holdfast: Nations At War 2020 · $16M 
Iron Harvest 2020 · $11M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Battlefield™ 1 | older | $39.99 | 200,661 86% | 6.0M | $241M (exactly $240,733,002) | DICE |
| | Verdun | older | $59.99 | 28,967 87% | 869k | $52M (exactly $52,131,910) | BlackMill Games |
| | Isonzo | older | $39.99 | 14,434 85% | 433k | $17M (exactly $17,316,470) | BlackMill Games |
| | Holdfast: Nations At War | older | $19.99 | 26,624 90% | 799k | $16M (exactly $15,966,413) | Anvil Game Studios |
| | Iron Harvest | older | $29.99 | 11,682 74% | 350k | $11M (exactly $10,510,295) | KING Art |
 | Tannenberg | older | $19.99 | 7,644 86% | 229k | $4.6M (exactly $4,584,107) | Blackmill Games |
 | Over The Top: WWI | $19.14 | 6,683 84% | 200k | $3.8M (exactly $3,837,379) | Flying Squirrel Entertainment | |
 | Gallipoli | $29.99 | 4,015 78% | 120k | $3.6M (exactly $3,612,296) | BlackMill Games | |
 | Axis & Allies 1942 Online | older | $19.99 | 4,810 78% | 144k | $2.9M (exactly $2,884,557) | Beamdog |
 | The Great War: Western Front™ | older | $34.99 | 2,733 66% | 82k | $2.9M (exactly $2,868,830) | Petroglyph |
 | Aces of Thunder | $29.99 | 1,159 57% | 35k | $1.0M (exactly $1,042,752) | Gaijin Entertainment | |
 | Age of History 2: Definitive Edition | $9.99 | 2,600 83% | 78k | $779k (exactly $779,220) | Łukasz Jakowski | |
 | Age of Clicks | · EA | $12.99 | 472 65% | 14k | $184k (exactly $183,938) | David Ius |
 | Home Before Winter (HBW) | · EA | $4.99 | 9 88% | 270 | $1.3k (exactly $1,347) | Core Reaction Studios |
 | Sky Scramble | $5.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $539 (exactly $539) | SpunjLabs | |
 | Operation Anatolia: The Great Offensive | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Musa Yiğit Yayla | |
 | Toon Troops Strategy | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | New Angle Digital | |
 | Daily War Online | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Xorbis |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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