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Should I ship a Score Attack Tactical game?
Tactical + Score Attack
Of 107 developers who shipped a Score Attack Tactical game 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.. 112 more are announced.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $270 in the last 2 years and $300 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 68 developers shipped in the last year and 112 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $119 (exactly $119) |
|---|---|
| Median | $269 (exactly $269) |
| Top 25% | $1.6k (exactly $1,647) |
| Top 5% | $38k (exactly $38,128) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 107 |
| Released games | 248 |
| Announced | 112 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $4.99 |
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 100% on the market, supply 70% more 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.
- Tactical
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Score Attack
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Tactical, Score Attack; 4 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, Arcade, Action
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $9.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Colorful, Relaxing
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $9.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 94% positive over 27,930 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. Nearly all of the 44 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 112 games are announced against 68 developers who shipped in the last year.
Adjacent niches
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Counter-Strike | older | $9.99 | 169,780 96% | 5.1M | $51M (exactly $50,883,066) | Valve |
| | Hitman: Absolution™ | older | $19.99 | 49,637 93% | 1.5M | $30M (exactly $29,767,309) | Io-Interactive A/S |
| | Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! | $5.99 | 24,497 94% | 735k | $4.4M (exactly $4,402,111) | ArtRising | |
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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