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Should I ship a Trading Card Game Real Time Tactics?
Real Time Tactics + Trading Card Game
Only 13 developers shipped a Trading Card Game Real Time Tactics 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, Kādomon: Hyper Auto Battlers, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 21 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $600, level with the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120; 1 in 20 cleared $160k, ×259 the market median. Revenue is down 55% on the market; 21 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $599 (exactly $599) |
| Top 25% | $7.2k (exactly $7,194) |
| Top 5% | $163k (exactly $162,737) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 42 |
| Announced | 21 |
| 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 55% on the market, supply 15% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 36%, 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
- Trading Card Game
- 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, Trading Card Game; all of the top 25% also carry Card Battler, Card Game, RPG
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $14.99 or above
- Art
- 5 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 2D, Cartoony
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $14.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 69% positive over 685 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 9 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 21 games are announced against 7 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Real Time Tactics with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
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- + MechsPoor odds
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Comparable games
RUNGORE 2024 · $446k 
Kādomon: Hyper Auto Battlers 2025 · $163k 
Castle Cardians 2021 · EA · $51k 
Control Craft 2 2016 · $41k 
MechDefender - Tower Defense 2020 · $41k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | RUNGORE | older | $14.99 | 991 85% | 30k | $446k (exactly $445,653) | YOUR_MOM'S_HP, RavenJm |
| | Kādomon: Hyper Auto Battlers | $9.99 | 543 65% | 16k | $163k (exactly $162,737) | Dino Rocket | |
| | Castle Cardians | · EA older | $14.99 | 113 72% | 3.4k | $51k (exactly $50,816) | 风宇冲 |
| | Control Craft 2 | older | $4.99 | 274 72% | 8.2k | $41k (exactly $41,018) | Cristian Manolachi, Atomic Fabrik |
| | MechDefender - Tower Defense | older | $4.99 | 272 76% | 8.2k | $41k (exactly $40,718) | Atomic Fabrik, Cristian Manolachi |
 | Control Craft 3 | older | $4.99 | 235 73% | 7.1k | $35k (exactly $35,180) | Cristian Manolachi, Atomic Fabrik |
 | Meta Card Backpack Legend | $7.99 | 68 97% | 2.0k | $16k (exactly $16,300) | KY Games | |
 | Millennium Strategy | $14.99 | 21 85% | 630 | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) | MiMo Games | |
 | Soul•Apocalypto | $11.99 | 20 80% | 600 | $7.2k (exactly $7,194) | 卜乙冈(Ploygon) | |
 | VELATO | · EA | $8.99 | 18 100% | 540 | $4.9k (exactly $4,855) | VELATO |
 | Idle Colors | $7.99 | 10 30% | 300 | $2.4k (exactly $2,397) | Like Idle Games | |
 | Rise of the Settlement | · EA | $9.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $599 (exactly $599) | Luki |
 | All-Front Assault | $8.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $270 (exactly $270) | Star Heart Workshop | |
 | Card TD | · EA | $7.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $240 (exactly $240) | Banished Crown Studios |
 | FootBall Card Battle | $3.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Robi and Kriszti |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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