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Should I ship a Score Attack Tank game?
Tanks + Score Attack
Only 11 developers shipped a Score Attack 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, FTS: Frontline Tank Survivor, 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.
Verdict: dead, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $59 in the last 2 years and $150 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 5 / 10 build. 9 developers shipped in the last year and 11 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $59 (exactly $59) |
| Top 25% | $748 (exactly $748) |
| Top 5% | $898 (exactly $898) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 31 |
| Announced | 11 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $1.99 |
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 350% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 19%, 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
- Score Attack
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Tanks, Score Attack
- Price point
- $1.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 6 games average 65% positive over 49 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 11 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
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
Furious Angels 2017 · $52k 
Tank Fantastic 2021 · $3.6k 
Tank Battle Royale 2021 · $2.2k 
The D-T.E.A.M. 2022 · EA · $1.8k 
Lil Tanks 2017 · $1.5k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Furious Angels | older | $4.99 | 345 87% | 10k | $52k (exactly $51,646) | MorfeoDev |
| | Tank Fantastic | older | $9.99 | 12 66% | 360 | $3.6k (exactly $3,596) | Neatan Games |
| | Tank Battle Royale | older | $24.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $2.2k (exactly $2,249) | PunchWorks Interactive |
| | The D-T.E.A.M. | · EA older | $9.99 | 6 100% | 180 | $1.8k (exactly $1,798) | Bottled Games Interactive |
| | Lil Tanks | older | $4.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | Lead Money Games |
 | Run Tank Run | older | $2.99 | 14 85% | 420 | $1.3k (exactly $1,256) | 樂磚Joy Brick |
 | FTS: Frontline Tank Survivor | · EA | $4.99 | 6 33% | 180 | $898 (exactly $898) | Rookie 7 Studio |
 | Tanks: 1985 | $0.99 | 29 72% | 870 | $861 (exactly $861) | CODEHUB | |
 | Arena Breakers | · EA | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | RongeGames |
 | Greebles | older | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Grassblade Entertainment |
 | Paper Cannon | $1.99 | 6 33% | 180 | $358 (exactly $358) | Enter the Game Studios | |
 | Turning The Tide | $4.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $150 (exactly $150) | Funky Monkey Games | |
 | Tanks online | $0.99 | 2 50% | 60 | $59 (exactly $59) | Aleksey | |
 | The Tunnels | · EA | $0.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Tomáš Hervert |
 | GORE TANK | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | METALJAWS | |
 | Shell Rush | $1.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Nicolae Bondoc | |
 | Canyon Raid | $4.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Dad Does Games |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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