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Should I ship a Robot Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Robots
Of 29 developers who shipped a Robot 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.. 54 more are announced, ×3.6 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $750, ×1.2 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $1.3M, ×2218 the market median. Revenue is down 20% on the market; 54 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $750 (exactly $750) |
| Top 25% | $2.6k (exactly $2,601) |
| Top 5% | $1.4M (exactly $1,392,852) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 29 |
| Released games | 93 |
| Announced | 54 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $7.99 |
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 down 20% on the market, supply as many developers as 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.
- Real Time Tactics
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Robots
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Real Time Tactics; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, Action, RTS
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 84% positive over 20,083 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 9 in 10 of the 15 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 54 games are announced against 15 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.6 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + Outbreak SimFair
- + HackingFair
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- + HistoricalPoor odds
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + MechsPoor odds
- + Vehicular CombatPoor odds
- + God GamePoor odds
- + Open WorldPoor odds
Comparable games
Planetary Annihilation: TITANS 2015 · $10M 
Mechabellum 2024 · $8.0M 
Phantom Brigade 2023 · $4.0M 
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation 2016 · $2.4M 
Taur 2020 · $1.5M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Planetary Annihilation: TITANS | older | $29.99 | 11,401 84% | 342k | $10M (exactly $10,257,480) | Planetary Annihilation Inc |
| | Mechabellum | $14.99 | 17,856 84% | 536k | $8.0M (exactly $8,029,843) | Game River | |
| | Phantom Brigade | older | $29.99 | 4,412 81% | 132k | $4.0M (exactly $3,969,476) | Brace Yourself Games |
| | Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation | older | $29.99 | 2,704 76% | 81k | $2.4M (exactly $2,432,789) | Stardock Entertainment, Oxide Games |
| | Taur | older | $24.99 | 2,011 79% | 60k | $1.5M (exactly $1,507,647) | Echo Entertainment |
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 | Executive Assault 2 | older | $24.99 | 1,604 82% | 48k | $1.2M (exactly $1,202,519) | Hesketh Studios Ltd |
 | Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense | $19.99 | 706 85% | 21k | $423k (exactly $423,388) | Element Studios | |
 | Bot Wars | · EA older | $14.99 | 700 86% | 21k | $315k (exactly $314,790) | Frompy Games |
 | Final Upgrade | older | $19.99 | 437 75% | 13k | $262k (exactly $262,069) | TaosX |
 | Chip ‘n Clawz vs. The Brainioids | $29.99 | 90 83% | 2.7k | $81k (exactly $80,973) | Snapshot Games Inc. | |
 | Electro Bop Boxing League | $14.99 | 84 79% | 2.5k | $38k (exactly $37,775) | Developer Dob | |
 | Death row inmates on the run 2--The Resistance | $6.99 | 86 55% | 2.6k | $18k (exactly $18,034) | zzzgame | |
 | Temporal Titans | · EA | $9.99 | 44 95% | 1.3k | $13k (exactly $13,187) | Lost Tower Games |
 | Maid Mech | $2.99 | 29 96% | 870 | $2.6k (exactly $2,601) | Dark Arrow Studio | |
 | Millennium Conflict | $3.99 | 17 100% | 510 | $2.0k (exactly $2,035) | Badim | |
 | Decimation | · EA | $5.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.8k (exactly $1,797) | Elementum Software Development Services |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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