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Should I ship a Robot Wargame?
Wargame + Robots
Only 19 developers shipped a Robot Wargame 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, Mechabellum, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 36 more are announced, ×4.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $450 in the last 2 years and $450 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 9 developers shipped in the last year and 36 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $450 (exactly $450) |
| Top 25% | $27k (exactly $26,863) |
| Top 5% | $8.0M (exactly $8,029,843) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 19 |
| Released games | 60 |
| Announced | 36 |
| Effort | 5 / 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 up 10% on the market, supply 10% fewer developers than 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.
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Wargame; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, Action, Tactical
- Price point
- $7.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 8 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $7.99.
The top 10 games average 83% positive over 19,621 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 12 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 36 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×4.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
Wargame with a different setting or mood, ranked by verdict then median.
- + Inventory ManagementFair
- + Local MultiplayerFair
- + NavalFair
- + TabletopFair
- + LogicFair
- + Real-Time with PausePoor odds
- + Real-TimePoor odds
- + Co-opPoor odds
- + StealthPoor odds
- + DiplomacyPoor odds
- + Colony SimPoor odds
- + SandboxPoor odds
Comparable games
Mechabellum 2024 · $8.0M 
Animal Revolt Battle Simulator 2022 · $3.0M 
ZeroSpace 2026 · EA · $1.4M 
Bot Wars 2021 · EA · $315k 
Alien Marauder 2021 · EA · $194k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Mechabellum | $14.99 | 17,856 84% | 536k | $8.0M (exactly $8,029,843) | Game River | |
| | Animal Revolt Battle Simulator | older | $14.99 | 6,571 95% | 197k | $3.0M (exactly $2,954,979) | VDimension |
| | ZeroSpace | · EA | $39.99 | 1,161 78% | 35k | $1.4M (exactly $1,392,852) | Starlance Studios, Ironward |
| | Bot Wars | · EA older | $14.99 | 700 86% | 21k | $315k (exactly $314,790) | Frompy Games |
| | Alien Marauder | · EA older | $19.99 | 323 60% | 9.7k | $194k (exactly $193,703) | Vexan Studio |
 | Chaos Galaxy 2 | older | $19.99 | 304 82% | 9.1k | $182k (exactly $182,309) | Han Zhiyu |
 | Codex of Victory | older | $14.99 | 260 69% | 7.8k | $117k (exactly $116,922) | Ino-Co Plus |
 | Battlecruisers | older | $9.99 | 386 83% | 12k | $116k (exactly $115,684) | Mecha Weka |
 | Death Ring: Second Impact | · EA | $19.99 | 163 78% | 4.9k | $98k (exactly $97,751) | Rouge Mecha |
 | OVRLRD | · EA older | $29.99 | 96 85% | 2.9k | $86k (exactly $86,371) | OVRLRD |
 | Age Of Warbots | $9.99 | 160 83% | 4.8k | $48k (exactly $47,952) | VDimension | |
 | Tactical Annihilation | $15.99 | 56 98% | 1.7k | $27k (exactly $26,863) | B.G. Game Studio | |
 | Sexy Iron Maidens | $4.99 | 123 69% | 3.7k | $18k (exactly $18,413) | Earl Marx | |
 | Death row inmates on the run 2--The Resistance | $6.99 | 86 55% | 2.6k | $18k (exactly $18,034) | zzzgame | |
 | UniWar | $7.99 | 14 71% | 420 | $3.4k (exactly $3,356) | Spooky House | |
 | Nexus Wars | · EA | $24.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $750 (exactly $750) | Ajion Arts |
 | OKTOFYBER | $14.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $450 (exactly $450) | iaroslav motailov |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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