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Should I ship a Resource Management Tank game?
Tanks + Resource Management
Only 6 developers shipped a Resource Management Tank 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, Broken Arrow, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 27 more are announced, ×27 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 1 developer shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $5.4k against a market of $630. 27 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $299 (exactly $299) |
|---|---|
| Median | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) |
| Top 25% | $795k (exactly $795,335) |
| Top 5% | $39M (exactly $38,878,223) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 6 |
| Released games | 25 |
| Announced | 27 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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: 36%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Tanks
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Resource Management
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Tanks, Resource Management
- Price point
- $14.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 10 games average 63% positive over 36,087 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $300. 6 in 10 of the 7 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 27 games are announced against 1 developer who shipped in the last year, ×27 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Tanks with a different second tag, ranked by verdict then median.
- + HistoricalFair
- + Turn-Based StrategyFair
- + Turn-Based TacticsFair
- + Tower DefenseFair
- + Open WorldFair
- + 2D PlatformerFair
- + Online Co-OpPoor odds
- + RPGPoor odds
- + Turn-Based CombatPoor odds
- + Action RTSPoor odds
- + Real Time TacticsPoor odds
- + TacticalPoor odds
Comparable games
Broken Arrow 2025 · $39M 
Tank Mechanic Simulator 2020 · $5.3M 
KAISERPUNK 2025 · $795k 
Close Combat: The Bloody First 2019 · $476k 
Tank Mechanic Simulator VR 2022 · $23k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Broken Arrow | $49.99 | 25,924 55% | 778k | $39M (exactly $38,878,223) | Steel Balalaika | |
| | Tank Mechanic Simulator | older | $19.99 | 8,792 87% | 264k | $5.3M (exactly $5,272,562) | DeGenerals S.A. |
| | KAISERPUNK | $29.99 | 884 71% | 27k | $795k (exactly $795,335) | Overseer Games | |
| | Close Combat: The Bloody First | older | $39.99 | 397 51% | 12k | $476k (exactly $476,281) | Matrix Games |
| | Tank Mechanic Simulator VR | older | $19.99 | 38 73% | 1.1k | $23k (exactly $22,789) | GameFormatic S.A. |
 | Pact of Steel | $14.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $5.4k (exactly $5,396) | Steel Potato Games LLC | |
 | Micro Annihilation | · EA older | $14.99 | 8 75% | 240 | $3.6k (exactly $3,598) | ZoopTEK |
 | Times Of War | · EA older | $4.53 | 13 61% | 390 | $1.8k (exactly $1,767) | TARTORGAMES S.R.L |
 | War Untold | · EA | $1.99 | 17 82% | 510 | $1.0k (exactly $1,015) | Green Giraffe |
 | Blitz Society | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Ryan Evans | |
 | Sparkfront: Online | $0.99 | 3 0% | 90 | $89 (exactly $89) | Selçuk Oruç |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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