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Should I ship a Real Time Tactics Shooter?
Real Time Tactics + Shooter
Of 66 developers who shipped a Real Time Tactics Shooter 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.. 153 more are announced, ×4.5 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 34 developers shipped in the last year and 153 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $60 (exactly $60) |
|---|---|
| Median | $450 (exactly $450) |
| Top 25% | $4.5k (exactly $4,491) |
| Top 5% | $223k (exactly $222,896) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 66 |
| Released games | 262 |
| Announced | 153 |
| 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 up 80% on the market, supply as many developers as the period before.
Free games: 18%, 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
- Shooter
- 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
- Real Time Tactics, Shooter; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Strategy, Simulation
- Price point
- $6.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Top-Down
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $6.99.
The top 10 games average 86% positive over 7,038 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $60. 9 in 10 of the 45 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 153 games are announced against 34 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.5 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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Comparable games
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Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront 2021 · $34M 
OPERATOR 2023 · EA · $5.2M 
Door Kickers 2014 · $4.8M 
Total Conflict: Resistance 2023 · EA · $4.6M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Arma Reforger | older | $39.99 | 51,613 80% | 1.5M | $62M (exactly $61,920,116) | Bohemia Interactive |
| | Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront | older | $34.99 | 32,183 85% | 965k | $34M (exactly $33,782,495) | Barbedwire Studios, Digitalmindsoft |
| | OPERATOR | · EA older | $19.99 | 8,605 86% | 258k | $5.2M (exactly $5,160,418) | VECTOR INTERACTIVE PTY LTD |
| | Door Kickers | older | $19.99 | 8,041 94% | 241k | $4.8M (exactly $4,822,188) | KillHouse Games |
| | Total Conflict: Resistance | · EA older | $29.99 | 5,089 74% | 153k | $4.6M (exactly $4,578,573) | Thunder Devs. |
 | Rising Front | $14.99 | 4,057 88% | 122k | $1.8M (exactly $1,824,433) | Sandstorm Studios Inc. | |
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 | Endorphin Vice | · EA older | $9.99 | 3,436 56% | 103k | $1.0M (exactly $1,029,769) | Endorphin Studios |
 | Children of the Sun | older | $14.99 | 2,005 92% | 60k | $902k (exactly $901,648) | René Rother |
 | Black One Blood Brothers | · EA older | $17.99 | 1,366 78% | 41k | $737k (exactly $737,230) | Helios Studio |
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 | Drone Sector | · EA | $16.99 | 366 89% | 11k | $187k (exactly $186,550) | Icosphere |
 | Desperate Place | $10.99 | 253 66% | 7.6k | $83k (exactly $83,414) | BruceGalaxy | |
 | Antivirus Girl | $7.99 | 169 88% | 5.1k | $41k (exactly $40,509) | Chowbie | |
 | MOCHI-O | $4.99 | 231 99% | 6.9k | $35k (exactly $34,581) | Zxima | |
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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