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Should I ship a War Score Attack game?
Score Attack + War
Of 30 developers who shipped a War Score Attack 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.. 42 more are announced, ×2.2 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $480, ×0.8 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120; 1 in 20 cleared $160k, ×262 the market median. Revenue is up 350% on the market; 42 games are announced against 19 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $478 (exactly $478) |
| Top 25% | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) |
| Top 5% | $165k (exactly $164,803) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 30 |
| Released games | 108 |
| Announced | 42 |
| 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 350% on the market, supply 75% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 6%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Score Attack
- effort 3 / 10 · high · effort 3 sits in the high band
- War
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Score Attack; 6 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Arcade, PvE
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
- Art
- 4 in 10 of the top 25% ship with 3D, Top-Down
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 1,575 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 8 in 10 of the 13 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 42 games are announced against 19 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.2 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Sky Force Reloaded 2017 · $805k 
Sky Force Anniversary 2015 · $627k 
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Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory 2024 · $185k 
Double Dragon Revive 2025 · $165k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Sky Force Reloaded | older | $9.99 | 2,687 92% | 81k | $805k (exactly $805,294) | Infinite Dreams |
| | Sky Force Anniversary | older | $9.99 | 2,091 92% | 63k | $627k (exactly $626,673) | Infinite Dreams |
| | Axon TD: Uprising - Tower Defense | $19.99 | 706 85% | 21k | $423k (exactly $423,388) | Element Studios | |
| | Death From Above: A Ukrainian Drone Warstory | older | $9.99 | 618 89% | 19k | $185k (exactly $185,215) | Rockodile |
| | Double Dragon Revive | $34.99 | 157 63% | 4.7k | $165k (exactly $164,803) | YUKE’S | |
 | HELLBREAK | $14.99 | 275 76% | 8.3k | $124k (exactly $123,668) | Double Barrel Games | |
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 | Raiden Legacy - Steam Edition | older | $9.99 | 259 54% | 7.8k | $78k (exactly $77,622) | Dotemu |
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 | Astro Fighters | $8.99 | 29 93% | 870 | $7.8k (exactly $7,821) | Paul Connor | |
 | Frogmageddon | $4.99 | 45 91% | 1.4k | $6.7k (exactly $6,736) | Frog Mage Udon, Sunset Dreamland | |
 | ModernFire | · EA | $9.99 | 21 90% | 630 | $6.3k (exactly $6,294) | FireLineGames |
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Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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