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Should I ship a Transhumanist Strategy game?
Strategy + Transhumanism
Only 11 developers shipped a Transhumanist Strategy 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, Quasimorph, made about est. revenue: est. copies × today's US list price; gross, before Steam's cut, taxes and refunds. See method.. 35 more are announced, ×3.9 for every developer who shipped in the last year.
Verdict: poor odds, for a 5 / 10 build.
The middle developer here made $210, ×0.3 the market's $630 for a 5 / 10 build, and 3 in 10 made under $120. 35 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.9 per shipper, while momentum is unreadable here, too few recent games.
| Bottom 30% | $120 (exactly $120) |
|---|---|
| Median | $210 (exactly $210) |
| Top 25% | $5.9k (exactly $5,937) |
| Top 5% | $5.4M (exactly $5,394,841) |
| Developers, 2 yr | 11 |
| Released games | 44 |
| Announced | 35 |
| Effort | 5 / 10 |
| AI-buildability | Medium |
| Typical price | $8.99 |
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 too few recent games to read momentum, supply 350% more 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.
- Strategy
- effort 5 / 10 · medium · effort 5 sits in the medium band
- Transhumanism
- effort 4 / 10 · medium · effort 4 sits in the medium band
What it takes
- Effort
- 5 / 10 · real systems or entry 3D
- Systems
- Strategy
- Price point
- $8.99 typical
Why players buy here
The top 8 games average 82% positive over 7,258 reviews.
What kills games here
3 in 10 developers made under $120. 35 games are announced against 9 developers who shipped in the last year, ×3.9 per shipper.
Adjacent niches
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Comparable games
Quasimorph 2026 · $5.4M 
Phoenix Point 2020 · $4.0M 
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation 2016 · $2.4M 
Lightracer Spark 2023 · $378k 
Creature Lab 2023 · $206k | Capsule | Game | Released | Price | Reviews | Est. copies | Est. revenue | Developer |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| | Quasimorph | $24.99 | 7,196 82% | 216k | $5.4M (exactly $5,394,841) | Magnum Scriptum | |
| | Phoenix Point | older | $24.99 | 5,375 73% | 161k | $4.0M (exactly $4,029,637) | Snapshot Games Inc. |
| | Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation | older | $29.99 | 2,704 76% | 81k | $2.4M (exactly $2,432,789) | Stardock Entertainment, Oxide Games |
| | Lightracer Spark | older | $12.99 | 970 83% | 29k | $378k (exactly $378,009) | Smartmelon Games |
| | Creature Lab | older | $19.99 | 343 51% | 10k | $206k (exactly $205,697) | Image Power S.A. |
 | Disintegration | older | $29.99 | 210 60% | 6.3k | $189k (exactly $188,937) | V1 Interactive |
 | The Banished Vault | older | $24.99 | 189 78% | 5.7k | $142k (exactly $141,693) | Lunar Division |
 | System Crash | older | $14.99 | 250 83% | 7.5k | $112k (exactly $112,425) | Rogue Moon Studios |
 | War of the Human Tanks | older | $9.99 | 339 91% | 10k | $102k (exactly $101,598) | Yakiniku Banzai |
 | Re-Legion | older | $9.99 | 200 62% | 6.0k | $60k (exactly $59,940) | Ice Code Games |
 | Holonoptic | $19.95 | 16 93% | 480 | $9.6k (exactly $9,576) | Glazial | |
 | Journey of Resurgence | · EA | $17.99 | 11 81% | 330 | $5.9k (exactly $5,937) | Stellar Realms Network |
 | Bloodless Heart | $2.99 | 31 87% | 930 | $2.8k (exactly $2,781) | Jarkem | |
 | Cendovia Uprising | · EA | $9.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $300 (exactly $300) | Warp Drive Games |
 | Dream of Becoming | $6.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $210 (exactly $210) | 镜 | |
 | Provisional Authority: An AI Governance Simulation | $5.99 | 1 0% | 30 | $180 (exactly $180) | Synthetic Mandate | |
 | Xenocide | $3.99 | 1 100% | 30 | $120 (exactly $120) | Cryptomnesic | |
 | Sky Scaffold | · EA | $8.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Asleepius Games |
 | Blackfall: Cyborgs Down | $14.99 | 0 0% | 0 | $0 (exactly $0) | Legendary Games Studios LLC |
Estimates: copies = reviews × 30, gross = copies × list price.
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