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Should I ship a Turn-Based Tactics Shooter?
Shooter + Turn-Based Tactics
Of 24 developers who shipped a Turn-Based Tactics 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.. 40 more are announced, ×2.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: dead, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360 in the last 2 years and $360 over 4, against a market of $630 for a 6 / 10 build. 14 developers shipped in the last year and 40 games are announced.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $356 (exactly $356) |
| Top 25% | $5.3k (exactly $5,254) |
| Top 5% | $5.8M (exactly $5,822,144) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 24 |
| Released games | 75 |
| Announced | 40 |
| 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 down 85% on the market, supply 40% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 12%, 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
- Turn-Based Tactics
- 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, Turn-Based Tactics; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Strategy, Turn-Based Combat, RPG
- Price point
- $4.99 typical · top 25% priced $39.99 or above
- Art
- 6 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Cinematic, Isometric
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $39.99 or above; the middle game at $4.99.
The top 10 games average 82% positive over 26,211 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 9 in 10 of the 15 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 40 games are announced against 14 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
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Breach & Clear 2014 · $605k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | STAR WARS Zero Company™ | $49.99 | 19,521 82% | 586k | $29M (exactly $29,275,644) | Bit Reactor | |
| | Xenonauts 2 | $39.99 | 4,853 81% | 146k | $5.8M (exactly $5,822,144) | Goldhawk Interactive | |
| | Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate | older | $9.99 | 5,918 92% | 178k | $1.8M (exactly $1,773,625) | PUNKCAKE Delicieux |
| | Warhounds | $34.99 | 735 71% | 22k | $772k (exactly $771,530) | Everplay DMCC | |
| | Breach & Clear | older | $9.99 | 2,019 82% | 61k | $605k (exactly $605,094) | Mighty Rabbit Studios, Gun Interactive |
 | Beach Invasion 1944 | older | $9.99 | 1,038 84% | 31k | $311k (exactly $311,089) | AIx2 Games |
 | Police Shootout | older | $14.99 | 449 55% | 13k | $202k (exactly $201,915) | Games Incubator, Hypnotic Ants |
 | Enter the Chronosphere | · EA | $14.99 | 420 94% | 13k | $189k (exactly $188,874) | Effort Star |
 | Deep Space Battle Simulator | older | $9.99 | 358 78% | 11k | $107k (exactly $107,293) | yeswecamp |
 | Little Witch Survivors | $4.99 | 543 87% | 16k | $81k (exactly $81,287) | 四月二酱 | |
 | The Ghost Treasure | $1.99 | 88 93% | 2.6k | $5.3k (exactly $5,254) | 谭浩翔 | |
 | Starbug Troopers : The 4 horseflies of the apocalypse | $8.99 | 13 84% | 390 | $3.5k (exactly $3,506) | Big Loot Games | |
 | Bedroom Battlegrounds | $9.99 | 10 90% | 300 | $3.0k (exactly $2,997) | WCHC | |
 | Headshot Roulette | $4.99 | 18 94% | 540 | $2.7k (exactly $2,695) | Atomic Collective | |
 | Geometry Shooter Pro | $4.99 | 10 100% | 300 | $1.5k (exactly $1,497) | Error 300 |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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