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Should I ship a Roman Wargame?
Wargame + Rome
Only 5 developers shipped a Roman 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, Strategos, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 11 more are announced, ×3.7 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
Only 3 developers shipped this in the last year, under the 5 a verdict needs; over 2 years the middle one made $3.0k against a market of $630. 11 games are announced.
not enough cohorts to draw
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $3.0k (exactly $2,967) |
| Top 25% | $9.0k (exactly $8,997) |
| Top 5% | $175k (exactly $174,680) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 5 |
| Released games | 26 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $9.99 |
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 50% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 15%, 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
- Price point
- $9.99 typical
Why players buy here
Fewer than 10 games in the last 2 years; sentiment and price figures use the all window.
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $12.99.
The top 10 games average 78% positive over 17,538 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 11 games are announced against 3 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.7 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
Total War: ROME REMASTERED 2021 · $11M 
Field of Glory: Empires 2019 · $881k 
Field of Glory II 2017 · $634k 
Warriors of the Nile 2 2022 · $531k 
Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients 2015 · $456k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Total War: ROME REMASTERED | older | $29.99 | 12,627 77% | 379k | $11M (exactly $11,360,512) | Creative Assembly, Feral Interactive |
| | Field of Glory: Empires | older | $39.99 | 734 81% | 22k | $881k (exactly $880,580) | Ageod |
| | Field of Glory II | older | $29.99 | 705 87% | 21k | $634k (exactly $634,288) | Byzantine Games |
| | Warriors of the Nile 2 | older | $14.99 | 1,180 88% | 35k | $531k (exactly $530,646) | Stove Studio |
| | Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients | older | $29.99 | 507 82% | 15k | $456k (exactly $456,148) | Longbow Games |
 | Ancient Wars: Sparta Definitive Edition | · EA older | $19.99 | 453 74% | 14k | $272k (exactly $271,664) | JOTASOFT STUDIOS |
 | Imperivm RTC - HD Edition "Great Battles of Rome" | older | $9.99 | 817 71% | 25k | $245k (exactly $244,855) | Dinamic Software, Imperivm World |
 | Strategos | · EA | $24.99 | 233 85% | 7.0k | $175k (exactly $174,680) | Strategos Games |
 | Roma Invicta | older | $5.99 | 231 83% | 6.9k | $42k (exactly $41,511) | Puntigames |
 | Grand War: Rome | older | $12.99 | 51 76% | 1.5k | $20k (exactly $19,875) | Joynow Studio |
 | Hispania | $29.99 | 10 40% | 300 | $9.0k (exactly $8,997) | Avalon Digital, Headquarter, Pixel Ratio | |
 | Roman General | · EA | $8.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $3.0k (exactly $2,967) | Moore Games |
 | Rome in a Day | $5.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Chudsoft | |
 | Medieval Siege | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Mind Inside Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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