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Should I ship a WWI Shooter?
Shooter + World War I
Only 13 developers shipped a WWI Shooter 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, Over The Top: WWI, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 27 more are announced, ×3.0 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $6.4k, ×10 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $600; 1 in 20 cleared $3.8M, ×6110 the market median. Revenue is up 5145% on the market; 27 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year.
| Bottom 30% | $599 (exactly $599) |
|---|---|
| Median | $6.4k (exactly $6,442) |
| Top 25% | $1.0M (exactly $1,042,752) |
| Top 5% | $3.8M (exactly $3,837,379) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 64 |
| Announced | 27 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $14.99 |
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 5145% on the market, supply 125% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 13%, 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
- World War I
- 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
- Shooter; 8 in 10 of the top 25% also carry Action, Simulation, FPS
- Price point
- $14.99 typical · top 25% priced $29.99 or above
- Art
- 8 in 10 of the top 25% ship with Realistic, 3D, Cinematic
Why players buy here
The top 25% priced at $29.99 or above; the middle game at $14.99.
The top 10 games average 81% positive over 16,061 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $600. All of the 5 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 27 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.0 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Battlefield™ 1 2020 · $241M 
Verdun 2015 · $52M 
Isonzo 2022 · $17M 
Holdfast: Nations At War 2020 · $16M 
Tannenberg 2017 · $4.6M | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Battlefield™ 1 | older | $39.99 | 200,661 86% | 6.0M | $241M (exactly $240,733,002) | DICE |
| | Verdun | older | $59.99 | 28,967 87% | 869k | $52M (exactly $52,131,910) | BlackMill Games |
| | Isonzo | older | $39.99 | 14,434 85% | 433k | $17M (exactly $17,316,470) | BlackMill Games |
| | Holdfast: Nations At War | older | $19.99 | 26,624 90% | 799k | $16M (exactly $15,966,413) | Anvil Game Studios |
| | Tannenberg | older | $19.99 | 7,644 86% | 229k | $4.6M (exactly $4,584,107) | Blackmill Games |
 | Over The Top: WWI | $19.14 | 6,683 84% | 200k | $3.8M (exactly $3,837,379) | Flying Squirrel Entertainment | |
 | Gallipoli | $29.99 | 4,015 78% | 120k | $3.6M (exactly $3,612,296) | BlackMill Games | |
 | Rising Front | $14.99 | 4,057 88% | 122k | $1.8M (exactly $1,824,433) | Sandstorm Studios Inc. | |
 | Beyond The Wire | older | $9.99 | 5,247 68% | 157k | $1.6M (exactly $1,572,526) | Redstone Interactive |
 | NavalArt | · EA older | $19.99 | 2,362 90% | 71k | $1.4M (exactly $1,416,491) | Rigidbody |
 | Aces of Thunder | $29.99 | 1,159 57% | 35k | $1.0M (exactly $1,042,752) | Gaijin Entertainment | |
 | Beach Invasion 1915-Gallipoli | $7.99 | 73 71% | 2.2k | $17k (exactly $17,498) | AIx2 Games | |
 | Trenches VR | $14.99 | 21 66% | 630 | $9.4k (exactly $9,444) | Steelkrill Studio | |
 | Bolsheviktion 3D | $4.88 | 44 93% | 1.3k | $6.4k (exactly $6,442) | Pelican Blue Software | |
 | Wings Of Rage | $15.99 | 3 100% | 90 | $1.4k (exactly $1,439) | Cyrille Fontaine | |
 | Flying Aces: Legend of the Red Baron | $19.99 | 2 0% | 60 | $1.2k (exactly $1,199) | GS2 Games | |
 | Furball Over the Front | $4.99 | 4 75% | 120 | $599 (exactly $599) | Page Blue House |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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