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Should I ship a Tactical RPG Shooter?
Shooter + Tactical RPG
Of 26 developers who shipped a Tactical RPG Shooter 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.. 76 more are announced, ×6.3 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $1.5k, ×2.4 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50; 1 in 20 cleared $270k, ×443 the market median. Revenue is up 6230% on the market; 76 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $30 (exactly $30) |
|---|---|
| Median | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) |
| Top 25% | $8.2k (exactly $8,150) |
| Top 5% | $278k (exactly $278,408) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 26 |
| Released games | 108 |
| Announced | 76 |
| 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 6230% on the market, supply 20% fewer developers than the period before.
Free games: 14%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Shooter
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Tactical RPG
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 6 / 10 · full 3D single-player, physics sims, content-heavy RPG
- Systems
- Shooter, Tactical RPG; 5 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Action-Adventure, Exploration
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $19.99 or above
- Art
- 3 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Top-Down, 2D, 3D
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $19.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 2,155 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. 8 in 10 of the 19 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 76 games are announced against 12 developers who shipped in the last year, ×6.3 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Scavland 2026 · EA · $480k 
The Shadow of Yidhra 2021 · $447k 
Trench Lord: Eastern Front 2026 · $278k 
Alien Shooter TD 2017 · $203k 
Brigand: Oaxaca 2017 · $165k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Scavland | · EA | $19.99 | 800 81% | 24k | $480k (exactly $479,760) | NoShadow |
| | The Shadow of Yidhra | older | $10.99 | 1,355 89% | 41k | $447k (exactly $446,744) | WhitePeach |
| | Trench Lord: Eastern Front | $11.99 | 774 83% | 23k | $278k (exactly $278,408) | Tracer Studio, LING YUN CO.,LTD. | |
| | Alien Shooter TD | older | $9.99 | 676 84% | 20k | $203k (exactly $202,597) | Sigma Team Inc. |
| | Brigand: Oaxaca | older | $9.99 | 551 94% | 17k | $165k (exactly $165,135) | Brian J. Lancaster, Laughing Coyote Sof… (Brian J. Lancaster, Laughing Coyote Software) |
 | DIRECT CONTACT | · EA older | $14.99 | 328 31% | 9.8k | $148k (exactly $147,502) | Mountain 81 |
 | War of Wizards | older | $19.99 | 140 70% | 4.2k | $84k (exactly $83,958) | Arcane Miracle Entertainment |
 | Prime & Load : 1776 | older | $7.99 | 313 76% | 9.4k | $75k (exactly $75,026) | Radio Silence Entertainment |
 | Silent North | · EA | $19.99 | 100 29% | 3.0k | $60k (exactly $59,970) | Combat Waffle Studios |
 | Deadrock Redemption 2 | $14.99 | 123 86% | 3.7k | $55k (exactly $55,313) | Entropy Digital Entertainment | |
 | MOCHI-O | $4.99 | 231 99% | 6.9k | $35k (exactly $34,581) | Zxima | |
 | Status One | $14.99 | 30 73% | 900 | $13k (exactly $13,491) | LastCall Studio | |
 | Demonslayer AKA Me | $7.99 | 34 73% | 1.0k | $8.2k (exactly $8,150) | 晶尘工作室 | |
 | MagicCar of Delicious | $9.99 | 26 76% | 780 | $7.8k (exactly $7,792) | YINGGUO GAME | |
 | Dust & Courage: Jake Bolton’s Journey | $7.99 | 23 86% | 690 | $5.5k (exactly $5,513) | Storyforge Games | |
 | Survalker | $9.99 | 14 85% | 420 | $4.2k (exactly $4,196) | Gamesforgames |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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