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Should I ship a Split Screen Tactical game?
Tactical + Split Screen
Only 13 developers shipped a Split Screen Tactical 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, Pure Badminton, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 19 more are announced, ×2.1 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 6 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $360, ×0.6 the market's $630 for a 6 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $50. 19 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 per shipper, while revenue is down 55% on the market.
| Bottom 30% | $0 (exactly $0) |
|---|---|
| Median | $360 (exactly $360) |
| Top 25% | $2.2k (exactly $2,209) |
| Top 5% | $194k (exactly $193,703) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 13 |
| Released games | 40 |
| Announced | 19 |
| Effort | 6 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $6.99 |
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 55% on the market, supply 125% more developers than the period before.
Free games: 18%, excluded from money figures.
Can AI deliver it?
AI-buildability for this niche is medium: the lowest rating among its tags.
- Tactical
- effort 6 / 10 · medium · effort 6 sits in the medium band
- Split Screen
- 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
- Tactical, Split Screen
- Price point
- $6.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 9 games average 82% positive over 477 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $50. All of the 6 games released 1 to 2 years ago have fewer than 100 reviews. 19 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×2.1 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection 2024 · $7.5M 
Pure Badminton 2025 · $194k 
Radiis 2018 · $43k 
Drunken FC 2024 · EA · $15k 
Jelly Troops 2025 · $5.9k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | STAR WARS™: Battlefront Classic Collection | older | $35.01 | 7,125 23% | 214k | $7.5M (exactly $7,483,388) | Aspyr |
| | Pure Badminton | $19.99 | 323 81% | 9.7k | $194k (exactly $193,703) | DS SOFT | |
| | Radiis | older | $14.99 | 95 90% | 2.9k | $43k (exactly $42,722) | Urban Goose Games |
| | Drunken FC | · EA | $6.99 | 71 80% | 2.1k | $15k (exactly $14,889) | Sloppy Games, Red Herring Labs |
| | Jelly Troops | $8.99 | 22 90% | 660 | $5.9k (exactly $5,933) | Nukenin | |
 | Rebel Reenactment: Battle of the Wilderness | older | $7.99 | 16 75% | 480 | $3.8k (exactly $3,835) | Cult Software |
 | Alien Extraction | older | $7.99 | 16 87% | 480 | $3.8k (exactly $3,835) | Crooks Peak |
 | Will of the Gods | older | $2.99 | 38 68% | 1.1k | $3.4k (exactly $3,409) | AggroBirdGK |
 | Tip Top | older | $9.99 | 11 81% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Tristan Dahl, Studio Huckepack, muuutsch |
 | Chick-Chick | older | $9.99 | 11 100% | 330 | $3.3k (exactly $3,297) | Gamesforgames |
 | Cat's Wars | · EA | $1.99 | 37 81% | 1.1k | $2.2k (exactly $2,209) | Antelus Games |
 | Delta Vector - Turn Based Racing | $3.99 | 12 83% | 360 | $1.4k (exactly $1,436) | Felipe Pechmann | |
 | Tacticell Arena | $4.99 | 5 100% | 150 | $748 (exactly $748) | Antheed | |
 | Space Wackos | $11.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $360 (exactly $360) | Nelson Peralta | |
 | Dependium | $2.99 | 4 100% | 120 | $359 (exactly $359) | Spectrum Forged Studios | |
 | Couch Racers | $4.99 | 2 100% | 60 | $299 (exactly $299) | Nico's Studio | |
 | Sumo Battlegrounds | $9.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Game Devs Anonymous |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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